# Co-op movement expert recommended as new Chair of NCVO

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/11/24/coop-movement-expert-recommended-new-chair-ncvo/
- Published: 2003-11-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations’ (NCVO) Board of Trustees has written
to its 3,300 members recommending that Sir Graham Melmoth succeed Lord Warner as
Chair of NCVO.
Lord Warner, NCVO’s Chair since November 2001, was made Parliamentary
Under-Secretary for the Department of Health in June obliging him to step down. 
The Trustees agreed to recommend Sir Graham to the membership at last week’s Trustee
Board meeting.

 

 

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Sir Graham retired in September 2002 as Chief Executive of Co-operative Group. He
joined the Co-operative Wholesale Society in

 

1975 and was Secretary of the organisation until being appointed Chief Executive
in 1996. He has also been involved in a variety of voluntary sector activities. 
He is a member of the Council of NACRO, Chairman of the Advisory Group on Restorative
Justice, a trustee of the New Lanark Conservation

 

Trust, and until recently was a member of the Council for Public Concern at

 

Work. He has been a member of the Business in the Community Rural Task Force

 

and a member of the Chairman’s Group of the British Retail Consortium.

 

 

Stuart Etherington, NCVO Chief Executive said: “The voluntary sector must start 
to

 

look beyond the traditional confines of the sector for the expertise it needs to
face the challenges ahead. I believe that his extensive knowledge and experience
of both the co-operative movement and emerging social

 

enterprise agenda will make Sir Graham a hugely valuable leader for NCVO.”

 

 

If no objections are raised Graham Melmoth will be confirmed as Chair at the EGM
that will take place at NCVO’s Annual

 

Conference on the 18th February 2004.

 

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