Strategic Director, Blackthorn Trust
Senior Partner, Invicta Consultancy Partnership
Consultant specialising in the management of change from SME to corporate models in the private/VCS/social enterprise sectors.

Joint Representative, South East Social Enterprise Network (SESEN)
Board Member, Social Enterprise Steering Group, SEEDA
Chair, Kent & Medway Social Enterprise Network CIC
Board Member, KentCAN (Change Up Implementation Board)
Board Member, Kent Partnership (Health Communities)
Chair, Kent Strategic Mental Health Partnership
Chair, Learn to Care Ltd,
Chair, Enterprising Opportunities CIC
Various memberships of committees and advisory panels at national, regional and local government levels; peer group advisor to various national grant making bodies

Past Positions Held

Chair and founder, Beech Tree Totalcare Group; Whitecliff House Group; Alzheimers Care Centres; Careline Community Service
Moderator ESF, Government Office South East, SEEDA, JC+, LSC
Chair, Kent (KEEP) Equal Opportunities and Empowerment Committee.

Relevant Activities
Member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge - currently writing masters dissertation “Growing the corporate Social Enterprise”

Part of Cultural Shift programme - research and evaluation report by University of Oxford, Said Business School, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurs.

Charles lives with his family in a cottage high on the downs near Canterbury; and his main other interests are blue water yachting and spending time in the peace and solitude of properties in East Iceland and the brocage of Normandy.

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