Citizens Advice appoints Peter Grigg as new Executive Director of Partnerships and Advocacy

Peter Grigg has been appointed Executive Director of Partnerships and Advocacy at Citizens Advice. He will join the organisation in April. 

Peter will be joining Citizens Advice from Home-Start UK where he brings valuable experience of leading a charity with a federated model. Since joining Home-Start UK as Chief Executive Officer in 2020, Peter has achieved significant growth in income and profile as well as securing innovative partnerships including with the John Lewis Partnership and BT. 

Peter also has a wealth of insight across policy, campaigns and public affairs having previously been Director of External Affairs at The Children’s Society overseeing a Children’s Commission on Poverty, campaigns to support families in debt and the annual Good Childhood Report.

Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, said:

“I’m delighted to welcome Peter to Citizens Advice. He brings a huge wealth of experience in similarly large and complex organisations.

“Peter is a values-led, inclusive leader with a strong commitment to social justice who will support our vital advocacy work. 

“I’m looking forward to working with Peter to ensure that we as a charity continue to deliver for people who so desperately need our support, whoever they are, and whatever their problem.”

Peter Grigg said:

“I’ve always admired the historic lifeline Citizen Advice provides to communities, as well as its high-quality advocacy and campaigning work and commitment to race equity and inclusion. It’s a privilege to be appointed to help Citizens Advice continue to inspire social change and tackle systemic inequality. I can’t wait to get started in April."

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Notes to editors:

  1. Citizens Advice is made up of the national charity Citizens Advice; the network of independent local Citizens Advice charities across England and Wales; the Citizens Advice consumer service; and the Witness Service.

  2. Our network of charities offers impartial advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. 

  3. Citizens Advice helped 2.68 million people face to face, over the phone, by email and webchat in 2023-24. And we had 51.7 million visits to our website. For full service statistics see our monthly publication Advice trends.

  4. Citizens Advice service staff are supported by more than 19,000 trained volunteers, working at over 1,900 service outlets across England and Wales.

  5. Citizens Advice is the statutory consumer advocate for energy and postal markets. We provide supplier performance information to consumers and policy analysis to decision makers. 

  6. You can get consumer advice from the Citizens Advice consumer service on 0808 223 1133 or 0808 223 1144 for Welsh language speakers.