# New Director of Communications at National Autistic Society

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/07/16/new-director-communications-national-autistic-society/
- Published: 2006-07-16T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Benet Middleton has joined the National Autistic Society (NAS) as director of communication
and public affairs, where he will head a large department including fundraising,
marketing, policy and campaigns, PR, communications and information functions.
Middleton
is joining the NAS after six years at Diabetes UK where he was director of campaigning
and interim CEO for one year in 2003-2004. Here he led the name change and re-branding
of the organisation in 2000, raising the profile of diabetes and Diabetes UK at 
a key time for health policy in government.

 

 

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Before that he worked for the Consumers’ Association from 1993 to 1999, initially
writing for Which? magazine and latterly as head of policy working on a range of
campaigns.

 

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