Nicky Goldman has been named Chief Executive of the U.K.’s Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN).

Nicky is currently Executive Director of Lead, a division of the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC).

JVN is the U.K.’s leading charity focussing on volunteers and volunteering. Aside from its core function of matching volunteers to volunteering opportunities, it also takes a principal role in fostering good practice in volunteer management within other charities, and partners with Lead on issues surrounding Jewish charity trusteeship and governance. Nicky has forged a partnership between Lead and JVN to create a trustee development programme, which has already become an asset to the community.

Nicky is a graduate of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service.