Your weekly roundup of appointments happening across the charity sector.
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Aberdeen Arts Centre
Holly Paterson joins the Aberdeen Arts Centre team as executive director, as charity Castlegate Arts Ltd looks to secure the future of the organisation through the Save Aberdeen Arts Centre campaign.

She has built her career leading people, improving services and bringing structure, energy and commercial focus to complex organisations, including eight years across two departments with Sky. Her background covers customer experience, operations, hospitality, sustainability and organisational change.

She is joined by seven new trustees who have been voted onto the charity’s board.
- Emily Taylor, head of membership at Offshore Energy UK and accomplished violinist
- Dr William Barlow, University of Aberdeen theatre and education lecturer
- Stephanie Calder, CEO and software consultant (and former dancer on the Arts Centre stage)
- Amanda Robinson, acoustic consultant and CEO, who has worked internationally to develop new theatre spaces
- Steve Johnson, founder of Paratus Commercial Services and stand-up comedian
- Mark Priestley, project director specialising in theatre and heritage
- Eaon Pritchard, internationally-renowned marketing strategy leader.

Imperial Health Charity
Imperial Health Charity has welcome three new trustees to its board; Bob Klaber, Jazz Thind, and Kamini Shah.

Klaber and Thind join the board from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, succeeding Michelle Dixon and Professor Julian Redhead, whose terms as Trustees concluded at the end of March 2026.

Kamini Shah joins as an independent Trustee.

National AIDS Trust
National AIDS Trust, the UK’s HIV rights charity has announced the appointment of Lord Chris Smith of Finsbury as its Patron. 

Smith made history as the first MP in the UK to voluntarily come out as gay, and in 2005 became the first MP openly to declare his HIV‑positive status.

Smith was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in July 2025, having previously served as Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. A former MP and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, he led major cultural reforms including the restoration of free entry to national museums.

Since leaving the House of Commons, he has held a wide range of senior leadership roles across the cultural, environmental and regulatory sectors, including Chair of the Environment Agency and Chair of the Art Fund.  

Royal Society of Biology
The Royal Society of Biology (RSB) appoints Professor Dame Melanie Welham DBE FRSB as its new President.

She takes over from Professor Sir Ian Boyd FRSB, whose term is ending after four years in the post.

She was the former Executive Chair at BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) 2018-2023. At BBSRC she was responsible for £420M annual public investment in bioscience research, training, and infrastructure at UK universities and institutes.

She also became the first female professor at the University of Bath and was the UKRI Executive Champion for People, Culture and Talent. She was awarded a DBE for her services to bioscience in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours list.

Sentebale
Sentebale, the charity co-founded by Prince Harry has appointed Alden Nouga-Ngog and Wellington Chimwaradze as trustees.

Chimwaradze, born, raised and educated in Southern Africa, has forged a career spanning senior legal and governance roles at Econet Wireless, Barclays, Unilever and AB InBev.

Nouga-Ngog is a senior philanthropy and strategic partnerships executive whose 25-year career began with leading health programmes at CARE in Cameroon. She has since raised more than US$600 million for international non-profits including CARE and Save the Children.

Prince Harry stepped down as the charity’s patron last March amid a row between its chair, Sophie Chandauka, and some of its trustees, with the dispute resulting in several trustees stepping down.

The Charity Commission conducted a compliance case into the charity last year and found the dispute was fuelled by a lack of policies to investigate internal complaints and resolve disagreements.

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