The Secretary of State appointed Sunder Katwala and Michelle Mitchell OBE as Board Members of The National Lottery Community Fund, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced on 7 August 2026. Both received four-year terms running from 5 August 2026 to 4 August 2030. Board members are remunerated at £7,848 per annum.

Katwala directs British Future, a thinktank and charity focused on identity, immigration and integration. Since May 2026 he has been a Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and sits on the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion. He led the Fabian Society from 2003 to 2011 and has worked in journalism and publishing.

Mitchell is Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK. According to the announcement, she has led transformation programmes across several UK charities and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to the charity sector.

The appointments followed the Cabinet Office's Governance Code on Public Appointments, with the process regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. The announcement states that neither appointee declared any significant political activity in the past five years.