Carole Easton

Who is Carole Easton?

Dr Carole Easton is chief executive of Platform 51. She has extensive experience of merging UK charities.

Carole Easton began her career as a child and family psychotherapist in the NHS. Since then, she has had 15 years experience in the voluntary sector. She has worked as a trainer and consultant in the UK and overseas developing helplines and children’s services.

Before joining Platform 51, she worked permanently in the public and voluntary sector and, in 2009, undertook a twelve-month assignment at disability advocacy charity SpeakingUp, where she oversaw the merger with Advocacy Partners, and prior to that she was Chief Executive at CLIC Sargent, ChildLine and Cruse Bereavement Care.

Clic Sargent was officially formed in April 2005 when Clic and Sargent Cancer Care for Children merged. Easton took over soon afterwards tasked with integrating the two charities and reducung their overheads.

As Chief Executive of ChildLine, she persuaded NSPCC to absorb ChildLine into the larger charity in 2005.

Dr. Carole Easton, who was appointed Executive Director of Cruse Bereavement Care in March 1998 following a realignment and expansion.

Easton is chair of YoungMinds and previously a trustee of Missing People and Child Welfare Scheme which funds and builds expertise for local health and education services for vulnerable children in Nepal.