Canine Partners
Canine Partners has appointed a new chair, vice chair, and four trustees.
Richard Brooke has been appointed chair, with Nick Sydenham taking on the role of vice chair.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Brooks brings extensive leadership and management experience to the board.

Before retiring, Sydenham worked as an international Business Continuity and Crisis Management consultant.

Meanwhile, Rachel Hucknall, Jessica Rendle, Vicki Cloney, and Tom Shore have also been appointed to the board, bringing valuable expertise in healthcare, animal welfare, integrated care, and digital strategy.

Changing Faces
Kate Pryke has been announced as the new chair of Changing Faces.

She began her career with Stephenson Harwood as a solicitor specialising in trust administration. Since leaving private practice, she has focused on voluntary roles, being a board member of various charitable trusts and as deputy chair of Governors at both junior and senior schools. Her involvement with Changing Faces began after her husband sustained partial facial paralysis following an acute episode of Bell’s Palsy. She also serves as a magistrate in the Family Court. She is currently the honorary secretary and deputy chair of Changing Faces. 

Eureka!
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum has announced the appointment of Kirsty Ward as its new chair. She joins with a career across retail, financial services, and telecoms, having held senior roles with BT, Marks & Spencer, Walmart, Asda, and Boots.

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Nuffield Health has announced that Matt Lynn will be stepping down as chief financial officer at the end of the year, and he will be succeeded by Paul Baker. He brings more than 25 years of financial leadership experience across international consumer, logistics and service sectors. Most recently, he was chief financial officer at Smiths News Plc.

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care has welcomed Tom O’Connor as its new CEO. He joins the organisation from London-based homelessness charity, Providence Row, where he was chief executive, as well as serving as chair for Shaftesbury UK, a disability charity focused on empowerment and inclusion. 

Rhodes Trust
The Rhodes Trust has appointed Chrystia Freeland as the next Warden of Rhodes House and CEO of the Rhodes Trust. She will start her role on 1 July 2026, taking over from Professor Sir Rick Trainor KBE, who has served as Interim Warden and CEO since 1 January 2025.

Freeland brings to the trust a record of achievement as a prominent Canadian politician, acclaimed journalist, and award-winning author.

Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance
Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) has appointed four new trustees. Richard Cockbain, Alastair Gibson, David Goodacre and Melissa Hope.

Cockbain holds a doctorate in police ethical leadership and decision-making and is a serving officer with Police Scotland.

Gibson is a retired trauma and orthopaedic surgeon who began his medical career nearly 50 years ago in London. Since then, he has worked across the UK and around the world including carrying out voluntary work as a visiting Consultant in Africa and the USA.

Goodacre's military service included responsibility for helicopter activities in the Army Air Corps and was awarded an OBE for leadership in Strategic Transformation. On leaving the Army he joined Barclays Bank in business improvement roles and now works as a consultant.

Hope is CEO of the Nuclear Liabilities Fund with her role covering investment management, operations and governance.

SUDEP Action
Dr Rhys Thomas has joined the Board of epilepsy charity SUDEP Action as a trustee.

He is an honorary consultant in epilepsy at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, where he runs a busy epilepsy practice that includes a large epilepsy and intellectual disability clinic, with a particular focus on rare genetic epilepsies. He is also a consultant in the NHS Highly Specialised Service for rare mitochondrial disorders, where his interests include epilepsy and stroke-like episodes. He is the research lead for neurosciences and the chief investigator for several epilepsy drug studies across the UK, as well as overseeing neurotechnology studies in Newcastle

The Roman Baths Foundation

The Roman Baths Foundation has welcomed ten new trustees to its board.

They are; Phil Chubb, formerly Global Head of Brand and Creative at Bloomberg, Daniel Dodd, former BBC editor and National Trust Director of Comms, Content & Media., Claire Gosnell, group director of Communications at KKCG and previously The National Lottery, John Hallsworth, former senior partner, board member and board committee chair at KPMG LLP, Charlotte Hanna, group head of external affairs at YTL UK, Professor Claire Holleran, associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, Liz Kyd - former partner at Clarke Wilmott solicitors’ Bristol Private Client team specialising in Wills, Trusts and Estate planning, Jessica Thompson, director of membership and engagement at The London Library.

New councillor trustees also include; George Leach, head of compliance at Hymans Robertson Investment Services and Liberal Democrat Councillor for Keynsham North and Ruth Malloy, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Weston and Member Advocate for Twinning and Great Spa Towns of Europe, Local Councillor.