Charity Infrastructure body NAVCA (National Association for Voluntary and Community Action) has appointed the head of one of its local member organisations as its next chief executive.
Chief executive of Voluntary Action Sheffield Maddy Desforges will take up the role in March 2021 replacing Jane Ide, who is taking up the same role at education and employment sector body Creative and Cultural Skills.
“The opportunity to lead NAVCA into its next phase of development, as we move from pandemic through vaccination into recovery, is really exciting,” said Desforges.
“It’s also a huge challenge, though with the staff team in post I know that’s a challenge we can rise to as an organisation.
“I’m really keen to build on the relationships and connections Jane Ide and others have fostered, to be an influential and persuasive voice at national level, setting out the critical nature of local infrastructure at national level, demonstrating the importance of local infrastructure support for resilient communities as the best path to recovery.
“I’m also looking forward to developing new relationships across the membership, and having more conversations with the members I already know and work with. I plan to meet as many of them as possible over the coming months – virtually and hopefully face to face – and work through how we can strengthen our network, work together to make the case for investment in local infrastructure and have a clear voice nationally.”
NAVCA chair Judy Robinson added: “At Voluntary Action Sheffield she (Desforges) has been involved in work on health and wellbeing, developing strategic relationships with the local authority, working with CEOs from BAME organisations and a holiday food and activity programme as well as helping VAS to become more sustainable.
“We were impressed by Maddy’s understanding of the vital role of communities, voluntary organisations and VCS infrastructure to make life better and fairer.”
“We are all looking forward to working with her to tackle the challenges ahead.”
Ide had been with NAVCA for three years, including a stint at its head of membership engagement
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