Lucie Russell has more than 30 years’ experience of working in senior roles in the charity sector, but it was an unusual set of circumstances that led to her taking the reigns at youth violence charity Redthread last November.
Russell, who helped set up the Big Issue alongside Lord John Bird in 1991 and ran the Big Issue Foundation for seven years, was appointed following the surprise departure of Geethika Jayatilaka just a few months after joining as chief executive from Chance UK, which she’d run for nearly six years.
As a trustee of Redthread since 2019, Russell was well placed to step up to the plate – she had also been supporting the charity in the transition to Jayatilaka’s leadership on a part-time basis after securing leave from her post as chief executive of social action charity Street Doctors, a role she has since left after being appointed as Redthread chief executive for an initial 18 months.
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