Ann Kenrick

Ann Kenrick (born 13 January 1958) is a charity leader in the United Kingdom.

Ann Kenrick is the second of four children of the pastor and homelessness campaigner, Rev Dr Bruce Kenrick, and his wife Isabel. Ann was born in the mission at Ranaghat, near Kolkata, India known as Doyabari when her father was working there as a missionary. When he was invalided back to the UK, the family moved to the Scottish island of Iona. They later settled in Notting Hill, London, at which time Bruce founded the Notting Hill Housing Trust and the charity Shelter. Dr Isabel Kenrick, from Boston, Massachusetts, was a historian who worked for the Historical Manuscripts Commission.

Kenrick worked as Secretary-General (CEO) of the diplomatic third-sector organisation, the Franco-British Council, a role in which she served for 21 years. From 2016 to 2017 she led the FBC’s Young Leaders programme.

In February 2017, she was appointed the Master and CEO of the 17th-century charity and almshouse, the London Charterhouse.

Voluntary work

Kenrick founded the Dulwich Safe Routes to School Group. She served for many years as a trustee of the Environmental Transport Association. She was a long-serving trustee of the London Cycling Campaign, of which she was elected chair in 2012, serving for six years. She led several protests against the deaths of cyclists in London.

In 2009 New Year Honours, Kenrick was awarded the OBE for services to Franco-British relations.In 2015, she became the sixth Briton to be awarded the National Order of Merit by the French government. In 2018, she was one of the "remarkable women who have shaped contemporary British society" selected by London's Foundling Museum for its "First Amongst Equals" exhibition.

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