Your weekly updates about appointments in the charity sector
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The Royal Voluntary Service
Royal Voluntary Service has appointed Carole Urey as Marketplace Director to lead its new digital volunteering platform and consultancy offer. With over 20 years’ experience growing tech and platform businesses, including as CEO and CCO at High Speed Training, she brings strong commercial and leadership expertise. Urey will oversee the launch of the new platform and the Volunteering Marketplace, supporting charities, businesses, and individuals to expand volunteering, strengthen community impact, and unlock more value from employee volunteering programmes.

St John Ambulance
St John Ambulance has appointed Professor Andrew Hartle as Chief Medical Officer, where he will lead clinical excellence and provide strategic oversight of medical operations. A St John volunteer since 2022, he has frontline experience at major events and has shaped key clinical guidelines. Hartle is Consultant Anaesthetist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Professor of Practice at Imperial College London, and a past President of the Association of Anaesthetists, bringing extensive expertise in trauma, governance, and leadership.

Terrence Higgins Trust
Terrence Higgins Trust has appointed Niall Bolger as its next Chair, to be formally elected at the charity’s AGM in December. London’s longest-serving council chief executive until 2025, Bolger led both Hounslow and Sutton Councils and now works in climate finance and regeneration. A trustee of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies and former lead on London Councils’ environmental work, he also brings lived experience, having been diagnosed with HIV in 1990 and supported by the charity for decades.

The Asylum Reform Initiative
The Asylum Reform Initiative (ARI) has appointed Bekele Woyecha as Deputy Director, in partnership with One Strong Voice. Bekele, who has lived experience of the UK asylum system, brings over 15 years of leadership from Citizens UK, UK Welcomes Refugees and the Centre for Progressive Change. His appointment, backed by global funders, marks a major step in advancing lived experience leadership and strengthening campaigns for a fairer, more compassionate asylum system.

The National Centre for Social Research
The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has appointed four new Trustees to its Board: James Brooks, COO at Kantar with extensive operational leadership experience; Professor Alison Park, Deputy Executive Chair at ESRC and a leading voice in UK social research; Professor Ian Rivers, Associate Principal at the University of Strathclyde and an expert in education and social policy; and Nina Skero, Chief Executive of Cebr and a respected economist. They will take up their roles in November 2025, bringing deep expertise to support NatCen’s strategic direction.

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