Sir Stephen John Limrick Bubb JP FRSA (5 November 1952[1] - ) is Chief Executive of the UK charity leaders representative body Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO). He received a knighthood in 2011 for his services to the voluntary sector.[2] From March 2011 to June 2011 Bubb was seconded to the Department of Health, as part of the team leading Andrew Lansley's National Health Service (NHS) "listening exercise".[3] ==Background== Born in Kent, Bubb read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Christ Church, Oxford.[2]
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After briefly being a civil servant, Bubb became a Research Officer for the TGWU's Jack Jones in 1976.[2][1] In 1980 he became Negotiations Officer for the National Union of Teachers,[1] before, in 1987, becoming lead adviser to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities in its pay negotiations.[2] In 1995 he became the first Director of Personnel of the The National Lottery Charities Board.[2][1] He became the CEO of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) in 2000.[1]
Bubb has been Chairman of the Adventure Capital Fund since 2006, a social enterprise which now administers Communitybuilders; and Chairman of Futurebuilders England since 2008.[1]
Bubb was a Labour Party member of Lambeth Borough Council for Clapham Town ward from 1982,[4]serving as chief whip for the Labour group.[1] When the Labour group protested against rate-capping by refusing to set a rate, Bubb was among 32 Lambeth councillors who were surcharged for causing the council a financial loss by wilful misconduct. This action disqualified him from being a councillor for five years from the end of March 1986.[5]
He spent nearly 20 years as a Youth Court Magistrate in inner London (1980-2000).[1] He also acted on local health boards in South London (Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital[6]), and set up an HIV centre there.[2]