# Stoker to be first Compact Commissioner

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/08/29/stoker-be-first-compact-commissioner/
- Published: 2006-08-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

John Stoker, the former head of the Charity Commission, is to be the first Compact
Commissioner.
Stoker, who has been chief executive of the London Bombings Relief
Charitable Fund for the last year, takes up his role on 1 October. He will work 
alongside a yet-to-be-appointed chief executive at the Office of the Compact Commissioner
in Birmingham.

He will oversee relationships between government and third sector voluntary and 
community organisations. Stoker said strengthening the Compact was a key priority.
He will be working closely with ministers, senior government officials, regional
funding bodies and chief executives of voluntary and community organisations to 
see how to make the Compaact as effective as possible.

He said: “I expect to see a major difference to the way in which the rules of engagement
operate between the VCS and government and will be listening very closely to all
of the Compact’s stakeholders to determine the best way to achieve this.”

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He will be working a two-day week for a three-year period.

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