Sight Loss Charity Appoints New Trustees

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has appointed five new trustees to its board.

The new additions, three of whom have sight loss, bring a wealth of experience and will play a crucial role in making major decisions that affect the charity and its subsidiaries.  

The five new trustees are: Director of External Affairs at Asthma + Lung UK, Andrew McCracken; finance expert Graham Colbert; Barry Hoffman - a former Chief People Officer at a FTSE company; Motability Foundation CEO, Nigel Fletcher and risk and finance expert Zayna Ali. 

“Trustees play an absolutely vital role in decision making at RNIB and these new appointments bring a wealth of experience across a wide variety of specialisms to the board,” said Anna Tylor (pictured above), RNIB’s Chair of Trustees.

“This will help ensure we have the expertise we need to thrive in the sector and to continue to drive forward with our mission to make our world a better place for blind and partially sighted people.” 

Following these appointments, and the end of terms for four of RNIB’s existing Trustees in September 2026, RNIB will have 10 trustees – 50 per cent of whom have lived experience of sight loss.  

To find out more about RNIB’s governance and leadership visit https://www.rnib.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-are-governed/