Polly Neate CBE is chief executive of Shelter,[1] a British homelessness and housing charity that campaigns to end the housing emergency.[2] She was recognised for her work in the 2020 New Year Honours list.
Early life and education
editNeate was born in 1966. Her mother, Patricia Mulligan, is a psychotherapist and her father, Francis Neate, is a lawyer and former president of the International Bar Association. One of her brothers is novelist Patrick Neate.[3][4]
She attended Gumley House Convent School, Isleworth and St Paul's Girls' School, London, before going to University of Bristol, where she took a Bachelor of Arts in English. She then took a postgraduate diploma in journalism at City, University of London.[5]
After her diploma she was a freelancer whose work was published in The Guardian and the New Statesman before becoming the editor of Community Care magazine.[3][5]
Career in the charity sector
editNeate moved into charity work in 2005 when she became Executive Director of External Relations at Action for Children until 2013.[5] She also sat as an independent member of the Labour working group on children's policy in 2008–09.[5]
Neate became chief executive for the Women's Aid in 2013 where she helped secure legislation to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviour.[6] In this role, she also sat as an independent member of the Labour working group on domestic violence policy, and as an independent member of the government's National Oversight Group on Domestic Violence.[5]
Neate became CEO of Shelter in 2017.[5]
She also sits on the board of Agenda,[7] the alliance for women and girls at risk, and is a trustee of the Young Women's Trust.[8]
In her charity roles, she writes opinion pieces on housing, women's rights, leadership, and wider social justice issues.[9]
She won Best CEO on Twitter in 2019's Social CEOs awards.[10]
Personal life
editShe is married to Hugh Thornbery CBE.[11] P
References
edit- ^ "Polly Neate". Shelter England. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "What we do". Shelter England. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
- ^ a b Douglas, Anthony (20 October 2005). "Messenger of social justice". Community Care. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Neate, Francis Webb: Fortunatusfamilia". fortunatusfamilia.com.au. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f Foster, Dawn (5 September 2017). "Polly Neate: 'Housing is the bedrock of everything' | Dawn Foster". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Chief Executive Polly Neate to leave Women's Aid for new role at Shelter". Women's Aid. 21 February 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Polly Neate". Agenda. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "Our trustees". Young Women's Trust | Charity. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "Polly Neate". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Polly Neate [@pollyn1] (25 May 2020). "A year ago today @HThornbery and I surprisingly got married! Still kind of surprised - and still feeling super-lucky. ❤️" (Tweet). Retrieved 29 March 2023 – via Twitter.
External links
editTwitter: @pollyn1
Instagram: pollyatshelter
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