Lord’s Taverners announces new Chief Executive
Mark Curtin has been appointed the next Chief Executive of the Lord’s Taverners which last year reached more than 12,000 disadvantaged and disabled young people, empowering them to fulfil their potential and build their life skills.
The UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity, Lord’s Taverners supports some of the most marginalised and at-risk young people in the UK and uses sport and recreation to build links between communities, increase participation and improve health, mental wellbeing, and future prospects.
Tim Luckhurst, the Chair of the Board of Lord’s Taverners, said: “The Trustees are delighted to have appointed Mark and that he will shortly join the Lord's Taverners. He is an experienced CEO with a warm personality, inclusive dynamic approach, with wide senior expertise in both the charity world and the sport for development sector. We look forward to welcoming him to the Taverners team, strengthen our membership values and help guide us to extend our incredible programmes and make a positive difference for ever more disadvantaged and disabled young people.”
Mark has been a senior leader in the charity sector for nearly 20 years, with most of his career spent working in the charity and ‘sport for development’ space. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of food redistribution charity The Felix Project. He has also held senior leadership roles in several other children’s health and well-being and education charities. He worked as Chief Operating Officer at Greenhouse Sports for seven years.
Mark said: “I am thrilled to be given the opportunity to lead the Lord’s Taverners, a charity I know well and have previously worked alongside during my time in the sports development community. The vision and mission of the charity are personally very dear to me and I am looking forward to getting started in a few months’ time”.
Mark has spent his life in sport as a club volunteer, a coach, a sports development professional and safeguarding lead officer and tutor. He has worked in the USA, the U.K. and briefly in France. Mark describes himself as a passionate “Sport Nut” and attributes almost everything he has achieved in his career to skills and characteristics learned and developed through playing sport. He has a young “sports mad” family of two children aged 6 and 8 and a wife who teaches PE and special educational needs in a London school. Mark and his wife are active volunteers in their own community in NW London.
Mark’s appointment will start in early September 2021. Nick Roseveare, interim Chief Executive, will continue to lead transition arrangements and will handover to Mark.