Naomi Dickson
Board Member
I have extensive experience of the voluntary sector, having occupied senior leadership roles for a variety of charities, including eight years as Chief Executive of Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA), the community charity that supports Jewish women affected by domestic and/or sexual violence. Having significantly raised the organisation’s profile, I was recognised as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2020.
I have also served as a trustee for the Women’s Aid Federation of England and for Home-Start UK and currently for the Cavell Nurses’ Trust.
With public funding under so much pressure, organisations like Norwood and its many partners in the sector are having to step in to support vulnerable people, either in lieu of available publicly-funded services, or where people are struggling to access support when faced with an extremely long wait for a diagnosis.
VODG has an essential role to play in amplifying the voices of our colleagues in the sector and those we support, keeping them firmly in the news agenda and holding the government and other agencies to account in working collaboratively with us and adopting decisive and purposeful recommendations that can help ease the crisis facing adult social care and make lasting and impactful change a reality.
Naomi is currently Chief Executive at Norwood, implementing a dynamic agenda designed to fill the gaps in local authority provision and government funding in Norwood’s capacity as the UK’s oldest Jewish charity, supporting neurodiverse children and their families and people of all ages with neurodevelopmental disabilities.