The election was held at the charity's AGM, held at one of its retirement homes Southwood Court in Basildon last week.
The gathering heard that The Printing Charity had helped 685 people in 2014, a 14% rise on 2013. The charity aspires to helping 2,000 printers or people working within printing and publishing in 2017.
Chief executive Stephen Gilbert, said: "We've done well in 2014, we've helped more people and we've helped people in more than one way, with more than one grant in many cases. We've also signposted people to other charities.
“The charity is fortunate to have a very dedicated council of trustees led by Jon and Steve for a third term working with us to achieve our goal of helping more people year-on-year.”
Wright joined the charity as a trustee and honorary treasurer in 2004, becoming chairman of the Investment Committee in 2007. A qualified accountant with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, he began his career at the Financial Times in 1974 and worked his way up to acting finance director. Since 2003, he has been the finance director of Pearson Global Real Estate.
Steve Sibbald joined the printing industry in 1971 as an apprentice hot metal compositor, was appointed father of the chapel at 24 and became a full-time union official at 25. He was a national, regional and branch official of Unite, and held previous positions at the NGA and the GPMU as well as within the UNI international union. He has been a member of the charity’s council since 2005 and leads its East Anglia Committee.
The organisation marked the 150th anniversary of the granting of its first Royal Charter with a reception at St Bride Foundation last month. Last year it recieved its third Royal Charter, which allows it to develop its work in further promoting education and training. The charity is involved in the print industry's current development of modern apprenticeships as part of the government's apprenticeship trailblazer process.
It has also this week completed judging for its Print Futures Awards, which awards grants of up to £1,500 to help pay costs associated with relevant training courses for a career in printing, publishing or graphic arts.
