Toby Porter

Toby Porter, Chief Executive of Hospice UK

Toby joined Hospice UK as its Chief Executive in September 2022. Prior to his appointment, he led Acorns Children’s Hospice as Chief Executive from 2016, guiding the West Midlands-based charity and its children’s hospice care service through the unprecedented challenges of the COVID 19 pandemic.

Toby brings to the role a wealth of senior leadership experience across a wide range of organisations in the charity sector. Prior to joining the hospice sector, Toby was Chief Executive at HelpAge International, the secretariat to a global network of civil society organisations working with and for older people; in that position, he was invited to join the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Population Ageing and invited to the WEF’s global meetings in Davos from 2014 to 2016 as a civil society representative. His earlier career was largely dedicated to humanitarian aid, working for Save the Children and Oxfam, including leading the response to the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004, and the conflicts in Kosovo and Rwanda.