CSV works with over 150,000 volunteers and 5,000 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.
Trustees
- Sir Jon Shortridge (Chair)
Former Permanent Secretary, Welsh Assembly Government
- John Pulford MBE (Vice President)
CSV Chair to December 2009 Chairman, Ex Cathedra
- Dr. Alison Elliot OBE
Convener of SCVO
- Douglas Hill
Former Group Finance Controller, Post Office
- Jamie Morgan
Associate, Economics and Policy, Ove Arup and Partners Ltd.
- David Wilkinson
Partner, Ernst and Young
- Matthew Nicholas
Former Jobcentre Plus Board Director
- John Bullough
Independent Non-Executive Director and Trustee
- Bruce Moore
Chief Executive, Hanover Housing Group
- Rolande Anderson
Independent Non-Executive Director and Trustee
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Scottish Advisory Board
- Dr. Alison Elliot OBE
Chair and CSV Council Member, Convenor of SCVO
- Matthew Haggis FRSA
Director, Creative Exchange
- Iain More
Consultant, Iain More Associates
- Val Cox
Former Deputy Director of Children and Families, Scottish Government
- Councillor Lesley Hinds
Former Lord Provost of Edinburgh
- Francis Lake
Lloyds TSB
- Sheila MacDonald
Royal Bank of Scotland
- David Windmill
Formerly Chief Executive Edinburgh Zoo
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Members
- Barbara Austin
Psychotherapist counsellor, CSV service user
- Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
- Martha Burnige
Associate, Veale Wasbrough Vizards
- Sir Robert Culpin
Former Managing Director Budget and Public Finance, HM Treasury
- Paul Daniels
Managing Director of Collaborative Working Leadership and Management
- Professor Christopher Fox
Head of the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Jane Fulford OBE
Educational consultant; former primary school teacher
- David Gibbons MBE DL
Former Chief Executive, Abbott Laboratories Ltd.
- Alexander Gordon
Former Partner, Coopers & Lybrand
- Sarah Gordon
International Company News Editor, Financial Times
- Sir Alistair Graham
Chairman, PhonepayPlus
- Richard Harries
Deputy Director, Analysis and Innovation, Department for Communities and Local Government
- Dorothea Hodge
Consultant
- Tim Loughton MP
MP for East Worthing & Shoreham
- Bob Maggs
RSVP South West Regional Coordinator & member of the RSVP Advisory Board
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- Laura Marks
Founder, Mitzvah Day
- Sir Bert Massie
Former Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission
- Archie McAvoy MBE
Non-Executive Chairman, Marsh Ltd.
- David Mellor
Business Consultant, Coach and Mentor
- Nicola Mendelsohn
Chairman, Karmarama LLP
- Carole Milner
Expert Adviser, Cultural heritage and Crafts sector, former Head of Returned Volunteer Programmes, VSO
- Madeleine Moon MP
MP for Bridgend
- Iain More
Consultant, Iain More Associates
- Joyce Ohajah
ITV Newscaster
- Clare Roskill
Freelance social care consultant; former CSV
- Dr. Kate Simpson PhD
Trainer, Impact Development Training Group
- Phylida Stewart Roberts CVO OBE
Former Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex
- Carole Tongue
Former MEP, Associate Director, Sovereign Strategy; Chair, UK Independent Film Parliament; Visiting Professor, University of the Arts
- Derek Tullett CBE Hon DSc
International finance
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