# CAF Chief Executive to step down

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/10/01/caf-chief-executive-step-down/
- Published: 2006-10-01T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Stephen Ainger, Chief Executive of Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), is leaving 
CAF after four years of service. CAF’s Finance Director takes over today as interim
CEO.**

Stephen Ainger explained why he had resigned, saying: “I have decided to step down
as Chief Executive at CAF because, after four years, and prior to the strategic 
review moving to the next stage, I felt it was the appropriate time to move on.”

He added that he was proud to have played a part in growing the value that CAF adds
to the charity sector.

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Chair of Trustees, Simon Cairns said: “In his four years at CAF Stephen has led 
the organisation through a period of unprecedented change and, more recently, completed
the first phase of a strategic review. CAF is now well placed to move on to the 
next stage of the review and Stephen felt it was timely for him to step down.

“As CAF’s Chairman I would wish to pay tribute to the important contribution that
Stephen has made and to wish him well in his future career.”

Finance Director Tony Rogers takes over the Chief Executive’s role as an interim
measure while the charity seeks a successor to Ainger.

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