Your weekly roundup of appointments happening across the charity sector.
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Cats Protection
Cats Protection’s current head of budgeting and reporting Rachel Spencer has been promoted to director of finance, replacing Vicky Pollitt.

She trained as a chartered accountant in practice and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

She has held senior finance, governance and risk leadership roles across the charity, public and commercial sectors, including finance director positions at East Anglian Air Ambulance and St Nicholas Hospice Care, where she also served as deputy chief executive.

Involve
Involve, the public participation charity has announced the appointment of Sue Tibballs OBE as its new chief executive.

She will join Involve on 20 April 2026 and brings nearly three decades of leadership experience at the intersection of civil society, politics, and social change.

She has previously served as chief executive of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation and Women in Sport, and as chair of both the Fawcett Society and 38 Degrees.

She was awarded an OBE for services to sport in the 2014 New Year's Honours list.

The Brain Tumour Charity
The chair of trustees at The Brain Tumour Charity, Jack Morris CBE, will stand down from his role on 30 March 2026 after volunteering his time to help run the national charity for eight years.

He joined the Hampshire-based national charity in 2018 after he and his wife, Susan, tragically lost their daughter Emily to the most aggressive type of brain tumour, a glioblastoma, when she was just 31.

He will be replaced by existing trustee Fraser Longden who retired in 2025 following a long and successful career in retail.

Longden brings with him a wealth of commercial experience combined with a deep sense of connection to the charity. His last role was as Chief Operations Officer at Wickes PLC.

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