The Cabinet Office has handed over responsibility for its flagship volunteering programme for 15- to 17-year-olds to the NCS Trust, led by its new chief executive Michael Lynas.
The organisation was launched in 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron, civil society minister Nick Hurd and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude with the help of Stephen Greene, the co-founder and chief executive of RockCorps.
Greene was appointed chair of the organisation in July 2012, tasked with leading the NCS’s transition from government to independence.
This transition was confirmed by Hurd in a recent letter to Greene that was published this week. In it Hurd stated that he “entrusts the NCS Trust with the promotion, development, operation and delivery of the NCS”.
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