AN organisation which provides homelessness support and youth services across Scotland has unveiled its new CEO.
Ypeople, the Glasgow-headquartered charity, announced Janet Haugh will take up the position, with incumbent Joe Connolly to retire at the end of 2019, ending a career of more than 40 years in social work and care.
Since 1824, Ypeople has helped to support young people and adults affected by homelessness. It also provides assistance through a range of services, such as mentoring, housing advice, children’s accommodation, counselling and out of school care services.
Haugh will join the charity from Mary’s Meals International. During her seven years as CEO at the charity, Haugh helped oversee significant growth. She now leaves an organisation which has an income of £26 million and employs more than 500 staff.
As Ypeople approaches its bicentenary, the charity has embarked on a programme of “future-proofing” and has committed to increasing its impact on Scottish communities by growing and innovating services it provides.
Haugh commented: “I am delighted to be joining this wonderful charity which is making a difference to so many people’s lives. Ypeople is passionate about delivering services that support the most vulnerable members of our society, with them at the very heart of our plans, and I was incredibly impressed by this approach.
“I am excited to be joining Ypeople at as it looks forward to celebrating 200 years of supporting the people of Scotland.
She added: “I relish the opportunity to grow and develop the services offered, to enable even more people make positive change in their lives.”
Ypeople’s new CEO has spent the her career working in the charitable and public sectors and boasts extensive experience in public finance. An accountant by profession, she started her career in the NHS before spending 14 years in local government. She joined a registered charitable leisure trust in 2007, where she helped lead the organisation as it doubled its income over a five-year period.
Haugh will take up her role as CEO in January next year.
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