Mencap chief executive to stand down

By Hannah Jordan, Third Sector Online, 21 February 2008

Dame Jo Williams, chief executive of learning disability charity Mencap, has announced that she will retire in October.

When she joined the charity in 2003, Williams said she would leave after five years at the helm. “I can hardly believe how quickly the years have flown by,” she said. “It has been a wonderful period, enormously fulfilling and rewarding for me. I am so proud of what we...

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