Vision for Volunteering Partnership and Team

  • Amanda Naylor

    Amanda Naylor (she/her)

    Chief Executive, Volunteering Matters

    Co-Chair, Vision for Volunteering Partnership

    Amanda joined Volunteering Matters in February 2024. She was previously CEO of Manchester Youth Zone, an organisation with a commitment to platforming young voices and creating safe spaces for young people to be themselves and reach their full potential. Before becoming CEO at Manchester Youth Zone, Amanda held senior positions at Barnardo’s and Victim Support.

  • Ruth Buchanan Leonard

    Ruth Buchanan Leonard (she/her)

    Chair, Association of Volunteer Managers

    Co-Chair, Vision for Volunteering Partnership

    Ruth is also the Head of Volunteering Development and Operations at Macmillan Cancer Support, where her role is to consider strategically where volunteers could be involved in providing solutions and to ensure that there is a supportive infrastructure to enable these interventions to be co-designed with and delivered by volunteers.

  • Maddy Desforges

    Maddy Desforges (she/her)

    Chief Executive, NAVCA

    Vision for Volunteering Partnership

    Maddy joined NAVCA in March 2021. Before joining NAVCA, Maddy was CEO at Voluntary Action Sheffield, and before that she was a civil servant, holding a range of policy and strategy roles around education and employment.

  • Mudaser Ali

    Mudaser Ali (he/him)

    Head of Development, Muslim Charities Forum

    Vision for Volunteering Partnership

    Through his role, Mudaser gets opportunities to engage in capacity building work with leaders who work tirelessly to empower their communities up and down the country. Mudaser is excited to see how volunteering evolves over the next 10 years, and is keen to play a role in shaping the future of volunteering so that anyone can take on opportunities to contribute positively to society.

  • Shaun Delaney

    Shaun Delaney (he/him)

    Head of Volunteering Strategy, DCMS

    Vision for Volunteering Partnership

  • TBC

    NCVO

    Vision for Volunteering Partnership