The UK volunteering and learning charity.
CSV Governance and Leadership
CSV works with over 160,000 volunteers and 10,000 learners every year. They are supported by our staff in offices throughout the UK.
Where possible we work with other voluntary bodies, government and learning providers to deliver as effective and efficient a service as possible.
Strategic leadership
Lord Levy, President
Lord Levy was involved in professional practice and then commerce, building up and selling several successful companies. He is also involved in a wide variety of public and communal affairs, deeply rooted in charitable work with abiding interests in the voluntary sector, welfare and education. He is renowned for his fundraising skills and has been described as the number one fundraiser in the UK.
Sir Jon Shortridge, Chair
Sir Jon Shortridge KCB is Chairman of the CSV Council. He was the Permanent Secretary for Wales for over nine years establishing the National Assembly for Wales. He has also been interim Permanent Secretary at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, and oversaw the transition to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. He is a Council member of Cardiff University and Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University and the University of Wales Institute.
Lucy de Groot, Chief Executive
Lucy’s career spans fifteen years in local government culminating as the Chief Executive of Bristol City Council, a senior civil servant role as Director of Public Expenditure at the Treasury, and six years as the Executive Director of local government’s own improvement agency the IDeA. She has been the independent chair of two Children’s Services Improvement Boards, and spent ten years in the voluntary and community sector earlier in her career. Lucy has given her time as a volunteer in the UK and abroad from an early age. Lucy received her CBE for services to local government in 2009.
Council
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Scottish Advisory Board
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Trustees
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CSV is a registered charity in England and Wales no. 291222 and in Scotland no. SC039171. CSV is a company limited by guarantee no. 1435877.