Gill Budd

Gill has deep experience as a senior leader in the charity sector, working in the area of legal, governance and risk and through trustee roles in charities. She has long been committed to charities which seek to challenge disadvantage – in health, education, rights, employment and opportunity – where she seeks to create and embed inclusion. Gill currently leads on governance, legal and compliance matters for the education charity, Teach First, and has worked as a solicitor at Save the Children UK and Plan International as well as in the commercial world. She has been a trustee of charities including the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Community Links and Blenheim CDP which all worked to address inequalities in some way.

Gill has personal experience of sudden hearing loss and lives with partial hearing and tinnitus. When her hearing loss happened, it was RNID resources she turned to so she could better understand her new world and life, as the leading charity to support people like Gill. She also has family experience of deafness and hearing decline. The prevalence of these issues in all families is significant.