We are delighted to welcome our new Chief Executive Ali Talbot.
Ali has worked in the public, private and third sectors at senior management level for the past 25 years. She specialised in strategic, operational, marketing and communications, project and resource management of charities, youth, sports, leisure and cultural services including sport, leisure, tourism, visual and performing arts services.
In her career, Ali was previously Chief Executive of Headliners (UK) a national youth multi-media charity. Prior to that she was CEO of Cerebral Palsy Sport, a national disability sports charity and was RNIB’s National Leisure Services Manager and lead manager of RNIB’s National Leisure Services team, who specialised in improving access to all aspects of culture, leisure, arts and sport for blind and partially sighted people.
Ali has also held varied leisure senior management posts in the public sector and private sector leisure facilities and sport development services management and hotel management. Ali had the pleasure of chairing LOCOG’s London 2012 Disability Community Engagement Forum, and represented RNIB on Glasgow 2014’s Advisory group, led on RNIB’s London 2012 project and sat on a number of cultural advisory bodies including the government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport Accessible Tourism Stakeholders Forum. Ali was the Event Director for the Nottingham 2015 CPISRA World Games and is a current member of Scope’s National Assembly.
When not working, Ali enjoys spending time with her family in Lincolnshire . Ali has two sons who love sport and a husband who isn’t a great fan of sport. Her eldest son has cerebral palsy and is a national and international FrameRunner. Her favourite food is Italian food, loves gardening, walking gymnastics, reading and is a closet 80’s music fan. When Ali is not working, she can be found on a side of an athletics track supporting her sons or in her treasured happy place – her garden!
