Appointment of Chief Executive to the Responsible Gambling Fund and Responsible Gambling Strategy Board

Press release

Date: 2 December 2009

The Responsible Gambling Fund (RGF) and Responsible Gambling Strategy Board (RGSB) have appointed Carol Stone as their new Chief Executive.

Carol was Chief Executive of the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund and since then has been working as a grant making consultant and interim manager. Previously, she held senior posts in arts and museum management, at the Arts Council, the New Opportunities Fund and the Big Lottery Fund. She has also had various advisory and committee roles in relation to support for victims of crime and major incidents, and for performing arts bodies.

Carol will take up post as Chief Executive on 1 February 2010 and will lead a joint team supporting both RGF and RGSB. Stephen Dunmore will continue as Interim Chief Executive until Carol arrives.

RGF distributes the funds raised by the gambling industry to research, education and treatment programmes in support of a national responsible gambling strategy.

Baroness Neuberger, Chair of RGSB and RGF, commented “We are very pleased to announce that Carol Stone will be the Chief Executive of RGF and RGSB, particularly because she has such a strong background in grant making and commissioning. These are areas of key importance under the new structures and I have every confidence that Carol is the right person to take this work forward. I would like to express my thanks to Stephen Dunmore, who has been invaluable as the Interim Chief Executive and was instrumental in the design and implementation of the new structures. We will now move forward to implement the initial priorities for research, education and treatment set out in the Strategy Board’s recent report.”

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Notes to editors

  • 1. The development and delivery of the research, education and treatment elements of a national responsible gambling strategy are coordinated through three bodies –
    - the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board to advise on the research, education and treatment components of the national responsible gambling strategy
    - a single purpose fundraising body (The GREaT (Gambling Research, Education and Treatment) Foundation, formerly the Responsibility in Gambling Trust)
    - a distribution body (the Responsible Gambling Fund - RGF).

    2. The joint executive team for RGF/RGSB is as follows. Further appointments will be made in the new year:
    Stephen Dunmore – Interim Chief Executive
    Carol Stone – Chief Executive from 1 February 2010
    Natalie Simpson – Head of Office and Secretariat
    Vicki Hembry – Head of Finance
    Jane Glastonbury – Interim Head of Policy.

    Malcolm Bruce, former Chief Executive, has left RGF to take up a major role in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Further information

  1. Further information is available on RGF’s website: www.rgfund.org.uk
    Enquiries should be directed to Natalie Simpson: natalie.simpson@rgf-rgsb.org.uk