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Claire Dove

CEO

Blackburne House Group

POSITION

CEO

COMPANY

Blackburne House Group

COUNTRY

United Kingdom

Website

Blackburne House

SCENE

Social

SOCIAL

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What makes Claire Dove a Global Shaker?

Claire Dove OBE DL is a key player in the social enterprise movement and has served two terms as SEUK’s Chair. Since the early 1980’s she has led the Blackburne House Group using her entrepreneurial skills to support the growth of the organisation into an award-winning and extremely successful social business.

Claire was awarded an MBE for her work in the mid-nineties. She received an OBE in 2013 and was given the Queens Lifetime Achievement Award for Enterprise Promotion.

She also has an Honorary Fellowship of Liverpool John Moores University, a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts and was voted nationally as an exemplary leader in Regeneration. Claire is Deputy Lieutenant for Merseyside.

From December 2007 to January 2017 Claire was Chair of Social Enterprise UK (SEUK). She is a member of the Alder Hey Hospital Trust and, until recently, was a Board Member for the Charity Commission.

Last updated: May 9, 2018