Two Board Members Reappointed to The National Lottery Community Fund
The Secretary of State has reappointed Emma Boggis and Danielle Palmour as Board Members of The National Lottery Community Fund.
Emma Boggis
Appointed for a 3 year term commencing 11 February 2024.
Emma Boggis has spent nearly thirty years working in the public and not for profit sector.
Her early career started in the British Army where she had operational tours in Northern Ireland and Kosovo. After a brief spell in Management Consultancy she joined the Civil Service and worked at the Office for Standards in Education and had two spells in the Cabinet Office including as head of the Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Unit, set up after London 2012. Prior to that she was also seconded to the Foreign Office as Deputy Head of Mission in the British Embassy in Madrid and served as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Emma then moved into sports administration and was Chief Executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance from 2014-2019 as well as being the Senior Independent Director on the Board of the British Paralympic Association and a Trustee of the National Paralympic Heritage Trust.
Emma joined the Board of The National Lottery Community Fund in 2019 and was appointed Senior Independent Director in December 2023.
She is currently also on the Board of the UK Sports Institute and the Royal Yorkshire Regiment and a member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body.
Danielle Palmour
Appointed for a 3 year term commencing 11 February 2024.
Danielle Walker Palmour is the Director of the Friends Provident Foundation, an independent grant-making charity established from unclaimed shares arising from the de-mutualisation of Friends Provident Life Office in 2001. Friends Provident Foundation has a wider interest in the use of financial markets to produce social value and has led small trusts in social investment.
Danielle is also a non-executive director of The National Lottery Community Fund, is a trustee of local and national charities, a member of the Congress and the York School for Business and Society Advisory Group both at the University of York UK. She serves on the Archbishop’s Council Investment Committee of the Church of England and is a trustee of Britain Yearly Meeting (Quakers).
Previously, Danielle has held board directorships at Big Society Capital, regional NHS bodies as well as senior policy and research roles throughout the sector including the director of Policy and Practice Development at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, senior research roles at the Commission for Racial Equality and the Law Society of England and Wales and advisory roles to HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office, the Financial Services Authority.
Remuneration and Governance Code
Trustees of The National Lottery Community Fund are remunerated at a cost of £7,848 per annum. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments.
The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Both Emma Boggis and Danielle Palmour have not declared any significant political activity.