# COMPAID Trust appoints new Chief Executive

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/03/16/compaid-trust-appoints-new-chief-executive/
- Published: 2009-03-16T07:50:03+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Stephen Elsden has taken up the post of Chief Executive at COMPAID Trust, a charity
working with disabled and other vulnerable people in Kent and Sussex. Stephen was
most recently Marketing Manager for Leonard Cheshire Disability, and has previously
worked for the British Red Cross and as a founder and editor of Professional Fundraising
Magazine.**

He is a Full Member of the Institute of Fundraising, where he served as a Trustee
between 2000 and 2005. He also previously served as Chair of Trustees at Build Africa.

Elsden said: “I am greatly looking forward to developing the work of COMPAID Trust.
It has a number of exciting and groundbreaking services that deserve to be better
known, and to benefit even more disabled people throughout the South East of England.”

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