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Forever Manchester launches Vice Presidents search

The multi award-winning Forever Manchester - the community foundation that last year gave £4.2m to communities across Greater Manchester - is seeking to appoint vice presidents to support Phil Jones, MD of Brother UK, who became the charity’s president earlier this year.

Phil was appointed in June 2014 as the charity’s first president from the business community and is now seeking to build a team of vice presidents from the most active sectors and disciplines across Greater Manchester to help him take the charity to its next stage of growth.

The vice presidents will form and lead steering groups in specialist business sectors – initially in the areas of creative industries and professional services. As well as Phil, the vice presidents will work with vice chair of the charity, Sandy Lindsay from Tangerine, as well as the charity’s business development team, to drive awareness and fundraising in their areas of specialism.

Phil Jones said: “As president of Forever Manchester I pledged to help it realise its ambition to help more people across our region, by raising awareness of how it gives people and companies a different way to channel charitable giving directly into communities. And I’m now seeking ‘lieutenants’ in this quest, who know different and complimentary areas of expertise to me, to help me and the team take things to the next level.”

Nick Massey, chief executive of Forever Manchester, said: “Phil’s appointment has already had a major impact on the charity and we believe this new approach of targeting sectors and disciplines via leading practitioners will really drive things on. We’re looking forward to meeting and working with these new teams.”

Anyone interested in applying to be a vice president should visit the Forever Manchester website where the job specification and application process are posted. The deadline for applications is 1st May 2015.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Bryony Czujko .