Advocacy charity, POhWER has announced that its chief executive Helen Moulinos will step down early in 2024.

She will remain in post until then, pending the appointment of a new chief executive by the board.

Serving as CEO since 2020, Moulinos has led POhWER through multiple advocacy responses and campaigning programmes helping to protect the human rights of everyday people in the UK.

Antony Kildare, chair of the board said: “I want to thank Helen for her service to POhWER and our many service users and for her courageous leadership over the last three and a half years, a period of significant strategic change and campaigning activity. She will continue to contribute positively to our charitable purpose and future as chief executive until she steps down next year.

"Helen has steered the charity with integrity and ingenuity at a time when the human rights of the many people we support each year are under threat and not always being upheld. Through Helen’s collaboration and tenacity POhWER has helped to safeguard vulnerable and marginalised people from harm and abuse, extend our reach and relevance, build our campaigning efforts and strengthen our human rights focus."

Moulinos added: “Since 1996, POhWER has been empowering people outside of the courts to uphold their human rights and be treated as equal people in our society. It has been an honour to play my small part in leading the charity during a time of uncertainty starting with the pandemic and then the cost-of-living crisis.

"I stand in awe of the work our 430 staff and more than 100 volunteers deliver every day. Our charity could not have delivered the impact we have had over the last three and a half years without them.”

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