PRESS RELEASE
9 November 2006
For immediate release
Volunteering England, the national development agency for volunteers, has appointed Meta Zimmeck as Public Affairs Strategist. In this newly created role, Meta will be providing strategic advice on Volunteering England’s programme, evidence base, partnership working and liaising with policy makers and parliamentarians. From December she will lead in the Secretariat of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering.
Before joining Volunteering England, Meta was head of the Voluntary and Community Research Section, Research, Development & Statistics Directorate in the Home Office, where she was responsible for research, programme evaluations and briefings for policy colleagues in the Active Communities Directorate. Prior to that, she was a research consultant specialising in voluntary and community sector issues and housing/ homelessness.
She has been a volunteer in housing associations for nearly thirty years. She started as a staircase representative in a tenants association, and is now chair of Hornsey Housing Trust, a specialist housing association providing housing and support to older people in Haringey and Barnet.
Meta said:
“This is a great time to join Volunteering England and I am delighted that I will be using my skills and experience to promote the work of Volunteering England and the Commission on the Future of Volunteering. Public and political interest in volunteering has never been higher, and I look forward to the challenge of ensuring that the voices of Volunteering England and its stakeholders are heard by those responsible for shaping the agenda.”
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Notes to Editors:
- For more information and to arrange interviews, call Cat Dean on 020 7520 8932; email cat.dean@volunteeringengland.org . During out of office hours, please call Sonya Roberts on: 07952 128057
Volunteering England’s aims are to increase the quality, quantity, contribution and accessibility of volunteering throughout England; secure and support an England-wide network of quality volunteer development agencies, promoting and enabling volunteering and community involvement; undertake research, policy and development activity; and provide grants, support and advice to sustain and develop volunteering. It understands the term volunteering to include formal activity undertaken through public, private and voluntary organisations as well as informal community participation.
