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Commissioners

Chair
The Baroness Neuberger DBE
- Read an interview with Baroness Neuberger DBE (PDF)

Members

  • Professor John Annette – Dean of Faculty, Professor in Citizenship & Lifelong Learning, Pro Vice Master for Widening Participation and Community Partnerships, Birkbeck College, University of London

  • Bishop John Austin – Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Leicester

  • Lord Bruce Lockhart of the Weald OBE – Chair, Local Government Association, and Chair (from July 2007), English Heritage

  • Alastair Burt MP - Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government
    - Read an interview with Alastair Burt MP (PDF)

  • Professor Justin Davis Smith – Director, Institute for Volunteering Research, and Chief Executive, Volunteering England

  • Kathleen Duncan OBE - Director General, LloydsTSB Foundation for England and Wales 1990 -2005

  • Stephen Dunmore – Chief Executive, Big Lottery Fund

  • Joe Gordon - Former V20 and Trustee, Young Achievers Trust
    - Read an interview with Joe Gordon (PDF)

  • Professor Margaret Harris – Professor of Voluntary Sector Organisation and Chair of the Centre for Voluntary Action Research, Aston University
    - Read an interview with Professor Margaret Harris (PDF)

  • Andrew Hind – Chief Executive, Charity Commission

  • Imam Monawar Hussain – Muslim Tutor, Eton College
    - Read an interview with Imam Monawar Hussain (PDF)

  • Tom Levitt MP – Chair, All Party Group on the Community and Voluntary Sector - Read an interview with Tom Levitt MP (PDF)

  • Barbara Monroe – Chief Executive, St Christopher’s Hospice

  • Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE – Director General, The National Trust

  • Mary Riddell – Columnist, The Observer

  • David Robinson OBE – Founder, Community Links and co-author, ‘Change the World for a Fiver’

  • Angela Sarkis CBE – National Secretary, YMCA England and BBC governor

  • Georgina Watts – Independent Consultant and Trustee, Volunteering England

Advisors to the Commission

  • Baroness Hanham of Kensington CBE
    Chair, England Volunteering Development Council
  • Baroness Pitkeathley of Caversham OBE
    President, England Volunteering Development Council and Volunteering England