John Coleby, Caritas director for 10 years, left Caritas Westminster last month. We gave him a good send off, and Cardinal Vincent Nichols presented him with an apostolic blessing from the Pope. (see the photo below)
Our new director will be Richard Harries.
Richard is a former senior civil servant who spent many years working on criminal justice, voluntary sector and local government policy issues. In 2013 he took up a new role working for a Westminster-based thinktank before going on to become Director of Research for a National Lottery grantmaker. To join Caritas he is leaving his work as Director of the Institute for Community Studies, where amongst other things, he has been working on the impact of faith-based social action. He is currently on the Board of Catholic Social Action Network (CSAN).
Richard will take up his post at the beginning of September,