Your weekly guide to appointments in the charity sector
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NSPCC

The NSPCC has appointed Tracey Pritchard to lead its new Engagement and Fundraising Directorate. She will build on the work of her predecessor, interim Director of Income Generation Tim Hunter, to boost the charity’s efforts to grow its income and supporter base.

She began her career as a fundraiser and has since held senior roles focused on engagement and fundraising for a variety of causes, including serving as Executive Director of Engagement at Prostate Cancer UK and Director of Engagement at Friends of the Earth. She has also served as a trustee, giving her a broad perspective on the sector.

For the past four years, Tracey has been Director of Engagement and Income Generation at the RSPCA, where she led an integrated, audience-first approach to growing income and brand engagement, with customer experience at its heart.

STAND

Daniel Valentine has been appointed as chair for STAND, the amputee charity founded as Legs4Africa in 2014. Valentine takes up the role immediately, succeeding Steve Whitlock who served as Chair from June 2022 to April 2025.

Valentine studied at the University of St. Andrews, Hertford College, Oxford, and King’s College London. He has 30 years of experience in public relations and organisational leadership, holding a number of senior roles across the corporate and charitable sectors.

In addition to Chairing STAND, Daniel is also Chair of Lovey Foundation UK and in September 2025.

The Young Foundation

The Young Foundation has announced that Dr Susan Griffiths will join as the organisation’s new chief executive. Griffiths will take up her new role in March 2026.

Griffiths joins the organisation from Social Development Direct, a social enterprise delivering innovative international development consultancy and research, focused on gender equality, disability, and social inclusion, where she has been managing director since 2020.

Griffiths’ earlier career includes roles as Executive Director at political development consultancy, Global Partners Governance, working to support political institutions around the world; and as a Senior Clerk at the House of Commons.

Ygam

Emily Tofield, who has held senior communications roles across central and local government, has been named as the next chief executive of youth gambling prevention charity Ygam.

Her government career includes a two-year stint as group director of communications at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and she has held senior communications roles at the Ministry of Justice and the Cabinet Office.

She also sat on the government communication service board and is a former cross-government head of media relations in the Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers Office.

Most recently she spent almost two years as executive director of corporate communications and external affairs at the City of London Corporation.

She is currently chair designate of academy trust chain the Girls’ Learning Trust and since October she has been a board director of the British Dietetic Association.

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