CV/Bio

Lynne Berry OBE

Name:  Gwenda LYNNE BERRY
E-Mail:  lynne@lynneberry.co.uk

From June 2011

  • Deputy Chair Canal and River Trust, taking British Waterways into the Third Sector

From September 2011

  • Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School, City University, London
  • Director: Public Benefit – building bridges between the voluntary and corporate sectors for our common good
  • Associate: Civil Exchange – strengthening society’s connection to government

Executive appointments

Chief Executive: WRVS
September 2007 – September 2011
View a Sunday Times article about my time at WRVS here

Chief Executive: General Social Care Council
September 2001 – September 2007

Chief Executive: Equal Opportunities Commission
October 1999-August 2001

Executive Director (SCS Grade 3): Charity Commission
July 1996 – September 1999

Chief Executive: FWA (Family Welfare Association)
March 1991 – July 1996

Social Services Inspector, Department of Health: HQ General Policy Group
April 1989 – March 1991 (secondment from National Institute for Social Work)

Head of Management Studies and Social Policy specialist: National Institute for Social Work
September 1985 – April 1989

Lecturer in Social Sciences: Polytechnic of Central London
January 1983 – August 1985

Community Worker: Camden Council of Social Service
May 1979 – December 1982

Social Worker: London Borough of Wandsworth
September 1976 – April 1979

Non executive appointments include

Currently
Transition Trustee: British Waterways/new Charity – taking British Waterways into the third sector

Trustee: Cumberland Lodge

Trustee: Anne Frank Trust

Advisory Board member: Islington Giving

Co-Chair: Women in Public Policy

Previously

Member: Office of Civil Society Advisory Board, Cabinet Office (Ministerial appointment) to April 2011

Member of Joint OCS/BIS Task Force, lifting the burden of red tape on charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises (Ministerial Appointment)

Chair: Public Services Action Plan Committee, Cabinet Office.

Member: Risk and Regulatory Advisory Council (BERR) (Prime Ministerial Appointment)

Member: Better Regulation Commission/Better Regulation Task Force and Chair: Risk and Regulation working group (Ministerial Appointment)

Member: Social Care Leaders Forum (Social Care Top Team at Department of Health)

Board member: Joint DH/DfES Task Force, Options for Excellence (Ministerial Appointment)

Modernising Government: membership of various Cabinet Office working groups

Non Executive Director: Europe Division, DTI

Consultancies for ODA/DFID on social audit, community development and social education

International consultancies with Governments and public bodies: Japan, Spain, Gibraltar, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Africa – social care and community development

Chair: Child Poverty Action Group

Trustee: National Centre for Social Research

Governor: Institute of Education, London University

Trustee: ‘Tomorrow Project’

Vice Chair: Deakin Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector

Chair: Joseph Rowntree Commission on Standards in the Voluntary Sector

Past Trustee (chair, treasurer and secretary) of many national and local charities including NCVO, NCVCCO and NCB UK Vice Chair of UN’s International Year of the Family

Major Honours and Awards

OBE for contribution to social care

Social Care Association’s Award of Merit for an outstanding contribution to social care

Honorary Doctorates: Anglia Ruskin University (D. Health) and Bedfordshire University (D. Science)

Honorary Fellow, Cardiff University