Mutale Merrill

Mutale is Chief Executive of the largest woman’s aid organisation in Wales, BAWSO, which is an all Wales voluntary organisation, providing specialist services to black and minority ethnic women and children suffering domestic abuse and all forms of violence. 

 

The focus of her work has been on social care, housing, gender and domestic violence and she is in active efforts to remove global poverty through the “Make Poverty History” campaign. 

 

Her current and past engagement include being a member of the first commission to review the National Assembly for Wales’ Voluntary Sector Scheme for Wales; a member of the National Assembly’s Homelessness Commission; a member of the National Assembly’s Working Group on Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women; the Chair of the BME Housing Strategy Review Group sponsored by the National Assembly; the treasurer for Taff Housing Association and a Board member of Cynnal Cymru (the Sustainable Development Forum for Wales).  She is a Trustee of ABESU; a charity supporting women-led self build housing in Zambia. 

 

Mutale holds a postgraduate degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales and was voted the HTV Welsh Woman of the Year in 1998, and received the Val Feld Award (Welsh Woman of the Year) and Leading Wales Award in 2006.  She received the OBE for her work in social care and the voluntary sector in 2009. 

 

Mutale is married with six children, and lives in the Vale of Glamorgan.