Young Women’s Trust CEO Katharine Sacks-Jones has announced that she will be leaving the charity at the end of October.
Katharine is leaving the role to take up the post of CEO at Kids, a national charity supporting disabled children and young people – an organisation which has supported her own family.
Katharine has been CEO at Young Women’s Trust since March 2026 and during that time the charity has broadened its campaigning voice to contribute a unique perspective on young women’s experiences of growing misogyny and the NEET crisis and continued to diversify its services offering a range of coaching, job application feedback, workshops and webinars to help young women navigate the world of work.
The Board of Trustees is revisiting the comprehensive recruitment process it ran to appoint Katharine in late 2025. This process identified a set of exceptional candidates and the Board aims to have a successor in place by the end of 2026.
Katharine Sacks-Jones says:
“The opportunity to lead Kids felt like a uniquely powerful combination of my professional experience, personal values and lived experience. The chance to lead an organisation whose work is so closely connected to my own family’s experience is one I felt I couldn’t pass up.
From my first day, I have been struck by the passion, commitment and talent of the Young Women’s Trust’s team, and it has been a privilege to work alongside them. Young Women’s Trust’s mission is hugely important, and I remain incredibly optimistic about the organisation’s future and the impact it will continue to have.”
Michelle Nelson and Lorna Lewis, Young Women’s Trust’s Co-Chairs, say:
“We thank Katharine for her leadership of Young Women’s Trust, and the passion and drive she has brought to the mission to create a more equal world for young women. She leaves the organisation in a strong position to take on the rising challenges of misogyny and the difficult economic climate young women are entering into.
Young Women’s Trust’s strong position and growing voice attracted a stellar field of candidates when we last recruited to the CEO role late last year. As a result, we’re confident that we can revisit this field and appoint a successor quickly, ensuring the organisation can continue its momentum at such a critical time for young women.”