Charity News Alert

Small Charities Coalition names 'dream team' board

Tania Mason

Directory of Social Change chief executive Debra Allcock Tyler and Media Trust chief executive Caroline Diehl are among a host of high-profile sector personalities who have agreed to form the inaugural trustee board of the Small Charities Coalition.

The Coalition has also secured a £50,000 grant from the Tudor Trust.

The other trustees appointed so far are Henny Braund, resource director at Shelter; Richard Davidson, director of policy and public affairs at Cancer Research UK; Lynne Rawlings, chief executive of the Dyslexia Association of London; Graham Leigh, development director at DSC and chairman of the Male Cancer Awareness Campaign; D’Arcy Myers, chief executive of Dreams Come True; and Emma Langbridge, head of public affairs at the Prince’s Trust.

Three more board members are now being sought to complete the line-up.

The new trustees held their first meeting last week.  Patrick Cox, founder of the Coalition, said: “I am over the moon. The board is what I can only describe as a dream team - a group of experienced, motivated, passionate doers, people who don’t just talk but can get the job done.”

He said the board would build the foundations of a long-overdue “bridge of support” between large and small charities and provide direct support to 10,000 small organisations.