Our board of directors

The Charity Retail Association’s board of directors represent our charity membership and guide the direction of the CRA. The structure of representation is based on the size of charity retail operation, proportionate to membership as a whole. We also have specialist board members on various important subjects for charity retailers.

Category A: 1-19 shops
Category B: 20-99 shops
Category C: 100-549 shops
Category D: 550+ shops

• Ruth Blazye – Director for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion – Scope
• Sarah Coles – The Hospice of St Francis (Cat A)
• Susan Cooper – Highland Hospice (Cat A)
• Lauren Davies – Director of Youth Engagement – St Michael’s Hospice (Hastings and Rother)
• Steve Derrick – RNLI (Cat C)
• Lorna Fallon – Oxfam GB (Cat D)
• Katy Faulkner – Sue Ryder (Cat C)
• Jane Flannery – British Heart Foundation (Cat D)
• David Longmore (Vice Chair) – Barnardo’s (Cat D)
• James Martin – Director for Public Affairs
• Rita Matanda – Director for Finance and Chair, CRA Finance Committee
• Dermot McGilloway – Society of St Vincent de Paul (Cat C)
• Karen McKenzie – Douglas Macmillan Hospice (Cat B)
• Jo Mewett – Cancer Research UK (Cat D)
• Robin Osterley – Charity Retail Association (ex officio)
• Emma Peake (Chair) – RSPCA Leicestershire, Peterborough and Rutland (Cat A)

We are extremely grateful to our board for the time they give to the CRA.

You can read about some of them, and their roles, here:
Susan Cooper
Sarah Coles
Emma Peake