Milner, Helen

Helen Milner OBE is the Group Chief Executive of Good Things Foundation, an international digital inclusion charity whose mission is a world where everyone can benefit from digital. Good Things Foundation Group operates in the UK and Australia, working with thousands of hyper-local community partners so that people can benefit from everything the internet and digital technologies have to offer. Founded as a staff-led mutual charity in the UK in 2011.

Helen has over 30 years’ experience of working in, creating, and leading internet-based organisations delivering innovation and systems change at scale. She works closely with people deep in communities as well at global and national levels. She has worked in public, private, charity, and academic sectors.

Helen was awarded an OBE for services to digital inclusion in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2015. In 2017 she won the coveted title of Digital Leader of the Year (UK). Helen was named by Computer Weekly as the 14th most influential person in UK IT in 2020. In 2021, she was named Internet Hero of the year by ISPA. And in 2024, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Sheffield. She is on the Treasury’s Financial Inclusion Committee, and the Money and Pension Services’ Board Advisory Group. Outside of her work for Good Things Foundation, Helen is the Chair of environmental charity Subak, and a Non-Executive Director on the board for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.