Ben Hughes

Chief executive

email - ben@bassac.org.uk
phone - 020 7336 9412

My role as CEO is a balancing act between working across government in shaping national policies like public sector commissioning, community engagement and voice, working directly with members on their issues, and running bassac the organisation with all its programmes, projects and people!

Working closely with government departments like CLG, the Cabinet Office and Defra, I feed in members’ experiences of working at the grass roots. Policy makers are keen to get this local-to-national-to-local dialogue and, with the personal relationships that characterize the bassac network, the quality of this evidence is particularly valued.

bassac has a history of close partnership working. Making this happen – across both voluntary, community, private and public sectors, is my other major area of work.