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Chair to step down from the Social Enterprise Coalition
BARONESS GLENYS THORNTON has announced that she will be stepping down as Chair of the Social Enterprise Coalition this Autumn. The Baroness made the announcement at the recent Coalition board meeting.
She said: "I have been chair for the first five exciting years of the Coalitions life and it has been an honour and a source of great inspiration to work with the people and social businesses that we seek to champion.
The Board and Jonathan Bland and the staff of the Coalition are remarkable, and the Coalition's success is testament to their commitment and hard work. They are my friends and colleagues, and I hope will continue to be so. "I am immensely proud of what has been achieved in these first five years, and love being the chair of the Coalition. I am completely confident that the Coalition will continue to go from strength to strength.
I have a firmly held belief that it is healthy for organisations to have a change in their leadership from time to time.
And I am even more certain that the "founders" of organisations should not hang around too long once that organisation is up and running. Chief Executive of the Coalition Jonathan Bland said Glenys will continue her excellent work as Chair of the organisation until the Autumn, and will be keeping close ties to the Coalition after she steps down.
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