04/03/10
By Howard Lent
Karin Woodley has been appointed as the new chief executive of ContinYou, one of the UK's leading community learning organisations.
Woodley will take up her new post on March 8.
From 2005 to 2009 Woodley was chief executive of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust - a national charity committed to furthering the personal development of young people whose life chances are constrained by economic, cultural and social hardship.
Since leaving the Trust, Woodley has been instrumental in establishing another charity - Sheila's Trust, which specialises in providing support to the families of dementia sufferers.
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