• Tim Kidd has started his role as The Scout Association’s new UK Chief Commissioner – the top voluntary role in Scouting.

Kidd is a lifelong Scout, having joined as a Cub and continuing his involvement through volunteering. He has held a variety of voluntary roles including Scout Leader, District Commissioner, County Commissioner and more recently, Deputy UK Chief Commissioner.

In June, Tim was named in the Queen’s 90th birthday honour’s list, receiving an OBE for his services to young people through the Scout Association.

• Astrid Bonfield and Tony Burton have been reappointed as members of the Big Lottery Fund UK board. Burton will continue in his role as vice chair.

Bonfield is chief executive of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust and was previously chief executive of The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. She also chaired the European Funders Group for HIV/Aids and the Corston Coalition of Independent Grantmakers. Bonfiled is a trustee of The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.

Burton has over 25 years’ experience on the executive boards of major charities such as National Trust and Campaign to Protect Rural England. He is the founder of Civic Voice, vice chair of Friends of the Earth and a trustee of TCV and mySociety.

• Deaf health charity SignHealth has appointed James Watson-O’Neill as its new chief executive.

• Children’s Food Trust has announced Meg Longworth and Lisa Gagliani as new board members.

Longworth leads the health and wellbeing strategy for Chartwells, the education division of Compass Group UK and Ireland. She is also part of an education working group, co-ordinated by Food Service Europe, which is looking to develop an EU school food standard.

Gagliani, awarded the MBE for services to young people and small business in 2015, is chief executive of Childhood Trust where she has helped to alleviate the impact of child poverty for around 60,000 young people in London, including funding breakfast clubs and holiday feeding schemes.

• The Ramblers has announced the appointment of Vanessa Griffiths as chief executive.

Griffiths will take up the role from November. She joins from National Trust Wales, where she is assistant director. With more than a decade of experience in the charity sector, Griffiths has also led social enterprise Groundwork North Wales and worked as a senior civil servant within the Welsh government.

• The Queen has approved the re-appointment of Mrs Elizabeth Peace CBE as a member of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Peace has worked in central government for 27 years and in the property industry for 10 years. She is a trustee of LandAid and Peabody Trust, and has experience of charity operations, governance and fundraising.

The reappointment runs for three years from 1 October 2016.

• Stephen Rimmer has joined Barnardo’s as impact and learning director.

Rimmer is a former director general of the Crime and Policing Group at the Home Office. Most recently, he was strategic adviser to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Prior to that, he worked as West Midlands strategic leader for preventing violence against vulnerable people, where he worked with local authorities, the police, NHS and the voluntary sector to tackle effectively CSE and other threats across the region.

• M&G has appointed new fund managers of Charifund and the National Association of Almshouses Common Investment Fund.

Michael Stiasny will replace Richard Hughes who, after 15 years of running Charifund, has decided to hand over responsibilities as part of a reduction of his day-to-day activities. Stiasny joined Prudential Portfolio Managers on the graduate training programme, joining the UK Smaller Companies desk, and becoming a fund manager in early 2000. Following Prudential’s acquisition of M&G, he joined M&G’s pan European analyst team in September 2001.

Hughes will become deputy fund manager and will continue to manage the High Income Investment Trust and M&G Extra Income Fund.

Jenny Rodgers becomes fund manager of NAACIF, replacing Hughes who becomes deputy fund manager.

Rodgers, who is also co-manager of the M&G Episode Growth Fund, joined PPM in 1994 as an analyst of European equity markets and a portfolio manager for external clients. She has been in her current role as a member of the multi asset team since 1999. Rogers was appointed co-manager of the M&G Episode Growth Fund in January 2011.

No changes to the investment process or objective of either Charifund or NAACIF are planned.

• The University of Leicester has announced the appointment of Bill Friar as director of development and alumni relations.

For the past four years, Friar was head of development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Previously he spent two years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Before moving to the UK from California, Friar was in charge of development communications for Stanford University’s Initiative on Human Health and its Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability.

• Sightsavers has appointed Alistair Burnett in the new role of director of news.

Burnett has more than 25 years of BBC experience including a decade as editor of the award winning news programme, The World Tonight on Radio 4 and, before that, as editor of Newshour on BBC World Service.

• Jason Loo, a senior associate at KPMG, has joined CLIC Sargent after the charity supported him from his diagnosis through treatment for cancer.

Loo, 26, was diagnosed with mediastinal teratoma cancer in 2012 shortly after graduating from the University of Warwick and was due to start a job at KPMG as a graduate trainee in London.

CLIC Sargent was able to provide a social worker and a youth worker, and arrange for his start date at his new role to be postponed for a year. Loo went on to volunteer for the charity and has spoken about his experience of cancer at events as well as being a member of CLIC Sargent’s Children and Young People’s Advisory Group and the Young People's Reference Group.

• National children’s charity bibic has appointed Lynda Williams as its new chief executive.

Williams was previously director for Off The Record, and has spent the past 20 years within the third sector and with young people. Somerset-based bibic provides therapy and support for children with developmental difficulties.

• Terry Rich has been appointed group board chair of Avenues Group – a group of non-profit organisations supporting people who have complex needs arising from learning disabilities, autism, acquired brain injury or dementia.

Rich has spent a long career in the health and social care sector of local government. He has worked to lift standards and introduce integration across health and social care through his own consultancy, established four years ago.

Prior to this, he served as a director in three authorities over 12 years.

• Macmillan and Hudson Palliative Care Centre has been renamed Alan Hudson Day Treatment Centre, and appointed Phillippa Ashcroft as project development officer.

Arthur Rank Hospice Charity took over the management of the facility in August last year.

• SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, has announced Lt Gen Sir Andrew Gregory KBE CB has been appointed as controller (chief executive).

Gregory retired from the British Army in April 2016 after 35 years’ service, most recently as chief of defence people at the Ministry of Defence. He was previously Director General Personnel and Military Secretary and served in a range of command and staff roles in Germany, Northern Ireland and the Balkans. He was Deputy Commander of 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The new appointment succeeds Vice-Marshall David Murray from 30 August 2016.

• Melanie Waters is to join Help for Heroes as chief executive from November.

Waters joins from The Poppy Factory, where she is chief executive. She has previously held a number of significant roles in the commercial and charitable sectors, including leading the external affairs, business improvement and operations for companies such as the Automobile Association.

Waters is a director and commissioner of Forces in Mind Trust, a member of NHS England’s Armed Forces Clinical Reference Group, and elected vice-chair of Cobseo (Confederation of Service Charities).

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