The Regulator for Charities in England and Wales

Membership of Charities SORP Committee

Regulators

Name Background
Andrew Hind FCA - Chair Chief Executive of the Charity Commission, he has been a senior executive with BBC World Service, ActionAid and Barnardo's and authored “The Governance and Management of Charities”.
Kirsty Gray CA - Deputy Chair Head of Monitoring and Investigation, OSCR, she was a partner with Scott Moncrieff, Chartered Accountants, Glasgow until 2002. Volunteer Chairman of the Board of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girls Scouts 2002-2005.
Ray Jones FCA Head of Accountancy Policy at the Charity Commission, Observer Member at CAPE and member of the APB working party that drafted (1998) and updated (2002) PN11 – The Audit of Charities.

 

Sector finance directors

Name Background
John Graham FCA John Graham FCA Director of Finance, Royal British Legion, member of the Charity Consortium's Executive Group and the Charity Finance Directors' Group Policy Committee.
Chris Harris CPFA Resources Director - Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; member of the Executive Committee of the Charities Consortium;
Chair (and founder) of CIPFA’s Charity Panel
Keith Hickey FCCA CEO – Charity Finance Directors’ Group and previously Finance Director at Help the Aged.
Lynne Robb ACA Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Corporate Resources at Cancer Research UK and a member of ICAEW's Technical Sub Committee and Public Sector Advisory Board and a member of  Auditing Practices Board PN11 Audit of Charities working group.
Catriona Scrimgeour ACA ATII Finance Director of the Bethany Christian Trust and Convenor of the Scottish Charity Finance Director Group.
Paul Spokes FCA Finance Director of Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts and co-founder of the “Nine Digit Group” of grant making charities.

 

Charity auditors

Name Background
Pesh Framjee FCA Head of Non Profits at Horwath Clark Whitehill, member of the ASB Committee for Accounting for Public Benefit Entities and ICAEW Charity Accounts Working Party.
Peter Gotham FCA FCCA Partner – Gotham Erskine – a specialist charity and not-for-profit practice and Chair of ICAEW’s Charities & Voluntary Sector Special Interest Group.
Carol Rudge FCA Partner & Head of National Charities and not-for-profit Group at Grant Thornton; a member of Sight Savers audit committee and the ICAEW’s Charities Technical Sub-Committee.
Kate Sayer FCA Partner – Sayer Vincent – a specialist charity and not-for profit audit & consultancy practice. A regular member of sector working parties, author on sector issues and conference speaker.

 

Broader sector/public interest

Name Background
Tidi Diyan FCCA Sole practitioner and Council Member of the Association of Charity Independent Examiners – his practice provides accounting, examination and audit services to a significant number Afro-Caribbean Churches and other charities.
Professor Noel Hyndman PhD FCMA Professor of management accounting at Queen’s University, Belfast - research interests in charity reporting, particularly in relation to performance reporting and information needs.
Tristan Lumley Senior research analyst a New Philanthropy Capital - a charity that advises high wealth donors and funders on how to give more effectively. Has led and published research identifying charities where funds and resources can be targeted most effectively.
Debra Allcock Tyler CEO of the Directory of Social Change and trustee of MedicAlert; Special Ambassador of the Guides Association and member of the Advisory Panel for City Business School’s MSc in voluntary sector management.