Swansea charity Faith in Families welcomes record number of new trustees
The revamp of its board follows the charity’s completion of the Pilotlight360 programme
Swansea charity Faith in Families has welcomed six new trustees, including a poverty expert and high-profile business leaders.
The revamp of the board follows the charity’s completion of the Pilotlight360 programme run by Pilotlight, a charity that supports other charities to grow and develop.
As part of the programme, a charity works with a team of four senior business leaders over 10 months to review operations and strategy.
Faith in Families chief executive Cherrie Bija said: "As part of the programme, Pilotlight helped us look at our governance structure, and Lloyds Bank Foundation helped us recruit new trustees.”
She added: "“We recently held the first board meeting of the year where five of the six new Trustees joined us.
“It was dynamic and exciting and we are thrilled at the way they will take our charity forward to the next level.
"Many of them have thousands of connections and a great deal of influence across the city."
The new trustees are: Karen Grunhut, who recently retired having spent the last 20 +years in roles focussed on tackling poverty and social exclusion; Jane Parker, an area manager for Swansea Building Society; former director of The Wave and Swansea Sound Helen Bowden; retired financial adviser Martin Jones; AB Glass founder Alan Brayley; and Jessica Harrington, managing director of Make the Change Consultancy, which supports businesses to win funding and achieve business efficiencies.
