West Sussex charity appoints new chair

The West Sussex Mediation Service (WSMS) has appointed a new chair.
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The charity, which recently saw changes within its board of trustees following elections at its Annual General Meeting appointed Nicola Wiltshire, having said goodbye to the outgoing chair, Will Adler, who had reached his full term in office, according to their constitution.

A charity spokesman said: “Nicola will be the sixth serving chairperson since the charity was formed in 2000.

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“She has a professional background in Financial Services where she held various director level roles and has extensive people, project and training and development experience, and is also a qualified coach.

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Nicola Wiltshire

“Nicola is passionate about understanding people, relationships and societal dynamics, which drew her to the work of WSMS.”

The charity, which provides a full range of mediation services, many of which are free at the point of delivery, also saw the election of a new Treasurer in Horsham based, Simon Cunningham.

Simon is a group finance director with a large city based investment management company. The board was further strengthened by the election of Bimal Desai, who is a recently retired international lawyer returning to the UK, from the Middle East, to live in Henfield. His career engaged him in a lot of negotiation, facilitation and mediation work.

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Despite all these changes, the charity is keen to attract further talent to add value to the board of trustees, the spokesman said.

The service co-ordinator for the charity, Nick Handley added: “It is good to know that there are good people out there who are willing to give up their time to support good causes, like ours, that do some great work in our local community.

“Sadly, there will be people who have lost their job due to the pandemic who might like to expand their horizons or refresh their CVs by becoming a trustee.

“We would love to hear from some of them. Trustee training would be made available. Individuals could take a look at us first by sitting in on a trustee meeting.”

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The charity won the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2019 and has been in existence for twenty years.

WSMS, which provides a totally confidential service, can be contacted on 0300 200 0025 or on [email protected]