The chief executive of the Commission for the Compact has resigned less than six months after taking up the role.

Angela Sibson will leave the organisation at the end of July, just weeks after completing its first business plan with Compact Commissioner John Stoker.

Richard Cordon, who helped to guide the Charities Act 2006 through Parliament, is set to take over as interim chief executive in September and will remain in the role until a new chief executive is found. A replacement is expected to be recruited over the summer.

Sibson said: “I am very pleased to have helped establish an organisation that I am sure will create an enduring improvement in partnership between the public and third sectors and wish John and the team the very best in building on the foundation we have established together.”

Stoker said he was “sorry she had decided to move on” but said she had brought insight and experience to establishing the Commission.