Chrissie Nicholls

Chrissie has been a trustee of Cancer Research Wales since 2020. She has worked in the public and third sector for over 20 years as an experienced senior and project manager for a number of national and international charities and local government. Since 2016 she has been working as an independent consultant, providing business development, governance and capacity building support to the third sector, and research and evaluation programmes for local authorities across Wales and England. 

She particularly specialises in violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence and women’s equality. Chrissie is vice-chair of the Standards & Ethics Committee for Cardiff Council, of which she has been an independent member since 2019. Chrissie lives in the Vale of Glamorgan with her husband and two children, from where she also runs her glass art business ‘Glass at the Spinney’.