Gingerbread is on the hunt for an interim chief executive after Victoria Benson left the role this month.

She leaves the single parent support charity after five years.

"The senior management team are working closely with trustees to recruit an interim CEO by mid-January before we start the process of looking for a permanent CEO to lead the charity into its next period of growth,” said the charity’s chair Sarah Pinch.

She added that in the role Benson had “shown huge dedication and hard work to improve the lives of single parent families over the last five years”.

Prior to joining the charity Benson was a solicitor and spent 11 years as director of legal and governance and as company secretary at Macmillan Cancer Support.

When she was appointed six years ago Benson detailed how as a single parent she had lived experience of the support needed for families.

“As a single parent myself, I feel passionately that single parents should be supported and championed so that they can thrive and be valued,” she said at the time.

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