Helen Milner OBE
Group Chief Executive
Helen Milner OBE
Group Chief Executive
Helen Milner OBE is the Group Chief Executive of Good Things Foundation. Founded as a staff-led mutual charity in the UK in 2011, Helen led the establishment of a subsidiary charity, opening an office in Sydney in August 2017, and running the Be Connected Network for the Australian Government.
Helen has over 30 years experience of working in and leading organisations creating and delivering education over and about the internet. She was awarded an OBE for services to digital inclusion in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. In 2017, she won the title of Digital Leader of the Year (UK) and was named by Computer Weekly as the 14th most influential person in UK IT in 2020. Working with British Parliament, Helen was a member of the Speaker's Commission for Digital Democracy and an Advisor on Digital Engagement to the Public Accounts Committee. She is a Board Member of FutureDotNow, a member of the Minister’s Digital Skills Partnership Board, and is on the Adult Advisory Group for MaPS (the UK’s Money and Pension Service).
"Technology increases convenience, flexibility, and choice for all of us - it puts us in control. But we haven't seen anything yet - technology also creates brand new ideas, creativity, and ways of doing things we never dreamed of before."
Read Helen's latest blog posts
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Rishi Sunak’s plans may still leave millions without hope and opportunity
Our Group CEO Helen Milner comments on Chancellor Rishi Sunak's spending review and what needs to be done to support digitally excluded people as part of the digital recovery post-Covid.
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Responding to the chancellor’s summer statement
Whilst 17.1 million of the nation's workforce lack digital skills for work, CEO Helen Milner calls for action to be taken now to fix the digital divide in light if Rishi Sunak’s summer economic statement.
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Better health for a divided nation. Can we fix it? Yes, we can.
Good Things' Group CEO Helen Milner looks at innovative ways to bring digital health literacy and digital services to people in communities in order to achieve better health outcomes.