The Civil Service Retirement Fellowship (CSRF) has announced that Simon Baugh has been
appointed as the organisation’s new Civil Service Champion and Board Director with effect
from 1st May. Simon will replace the CSRF’s outgoing Champion, Dame Elizabeth Gardiner
DCB KC (Hons), who retires from the Civil Service at the end of April.
Simon Baugh was appointed the Chief Executive of the Government Communication Service in 2021. He has twenty years’ experience in strategy and communications in the public and private sector. His previous roles included: Director of Communications, Home Office, Director of Communications and Engagement, Department for Exiting the EU and Director of Strategy & Communications, Department for Transport.
He joins the organisation as they prepare to celebrate 60 years as a Civil Service welfare
body and charity in 2025. He will be supporting the plans for the anniversary as well as their
communication and marketing aims to engage a new cohort of members to their
community.
Elizabeth said:
As I retire after almost 33 years in the Civil Service, I am delighted to be handing on the
baton as CSRF Civil Service Champion to Simon. The CSRF is a very special organisation
and I wish Simon and my fellow directors, and David Tickner and his team, all the very best
as they look for new opportunities for the CSRF to make a positive difference to the lives of
our many members.
Simon said:
I am delighted to take on the role of Civil Service Champion and Board Director at the Civil
Service Retirement Fellowship. The CSRF’s work is rooted in friendship, support and
community for former civil servants and their dependents. Combating loneliness in later life
has never been more important and I hope I can champion this cause as effectively as
Elizabeth has over the last few years.
The CSRF was founded as a charity to provide friendship and support to former civil
servants and their dependants. It operates three core charitable services: local social groups
for meet ups, national befriending schemes and a freephone helpline providing help and
advice. The charity receives no government funding and relies on income from annual
subscriptions and fundraising activities to support its work.