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Trustees
Richard Davies
Richard Davies has been Board Director at the Welsh Assembly Government since 2000, and Head of the Department for Public Services and Performance since 2006. Richard has worked in various Departments in Whitehall and overseas, including the MoD, the Foreign Office, the MPO/Cabinet Office, and the Northern Ireland Office. After joining the Welsh Office in 1984 he headed up health, social service, housing and school performance divisions. For a number of years he led the Assembly Government Department for Training and Education.
Richard has advisory, non-executive and lay roles variously with the British Council and HM Courts Service in Wales, the GMC (UK) and the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority. He was a Civil Service Nuffield-Leverhulme Fellow in 1990 and is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan.
Lucy Gampell
Lucy has 24 years experience of working in the voluntary sector and is currently the Director of Action for Prisoners’ Families having been appointed in 1993 as the charity’s first employee and has led its growth and development over the past 15 years into a highly regarded organisation. Lucy has been a member of several Government advisory groups including the External Advisory Group for the Social Exclusion Unit Report on reducing re-offending (2002) and represents APF on many committees and lobby groups both in England & Europe. She is an experienced speaker, writer and broadcaster.
Lucy has been a Trustee of several charities and is currently Vice-Chair of CLINKS. She holds an MSC in Criminal Justice Policy from the LSE. Lucy will be leaving her position with APF at the end of 2008.
John Kingston (Chairman)
John is the founder Director of Venturesome, part of the Charities Aid Foundation. Venturesome provides risk capital financing, advice and support to charities and other social enterprises, and has worked with over 100 charities since launch in 2002. He chairs the Social Investment Market Group in the UK. After 15 years at investment bank 3i Group, John joined Save the Children as Director of Fundraising/Marketing in 1990, moving to CAF in 2001. He has been a trustee of a number of charities including the Institute of Fundraising, and is currently a trustee of the Institute of Global Ethics UK.
Simon Law
Simon is Head of Financial Control at Nationwide Building Society. Simon joined Nationwide in August 2005 primarily responsible for establishing a Financial Compliance function. Simon has also been involved in operational risk at Nationwide and is the Operational Risk Officer for Financial Management and Control. Prior to joining Nationwide Simon worked at Volvo Financial Services and at KPMG, predominantly specialising in Financial Services clients, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2000.
Karen McArthur
Karen has over 10 years experience in social housing with some of the leading and most innovative organisations, both as a practitioner and as a Non-Executive board member. Following a period as a housing consultant she moved to Vodafone where she worked in business change, segment strategy, CEO’s programme team. More recently Karen has spent 4 years working on the companies corporate responsibility agenda, shaping and driving the company’s strategy to enhance its reputation. Karen continues to retain an interest in social housing and is a Non-Executive board member of Quality Housing Services, an organisation committed to improving customer service within the sector. Karen is also a Magistrate in West London.
Dr Michael McCarthy
Michael is Director of Work House, a consultancy providing strategic advice and project management to businesses and organisations working in communities undergoing diversification and regeneration. His key interest is in integrating workspace and housing. He was previously MD of Rural Solutions and was project director of Accent’s successful bid for the ‘renaissance’ of Skipton. He has been a member of Yorkshire Forward’s Renaissance Market Towns Panel since 2002. He has worked in higher education, in housing, for a trade union, and in regeneration and in social care. He is the author of books on family poverty, on the future of the welfare state and on unemployment. He led Mullion to the DTI’s first award for innovation in housing in 2000. Michael has been a trustee of charities, including EAC, since 1994 and is a consultant to the Rural Services Network.
Jen McKevitt
Jen is currently Director of Operations at Sunderland New Deal for Communities programme, East End & Hendon 'Back on the Map'. She was previously Director of English Programmes at the Coalfields Regeneration Trust and brings first-hand knowledge and understanding of disadvantaged and isolated communities across the country. As well as developing locally-led responses to issues of inequality, Jen brings a track record in community engagement and developing models of practice that place communities at the forefront of regeneration. She has also been actively involved in shaping grant-making policy both locally and nationally and is committed to ensuring funds are meaningfully targeted and accessible.
Tony Prestedge
Tony is Executive Director, Group Development, at Nationwide Building Society, having been appointed to the Nationwide Board in August 2007. He was previously Group Operations Director of Portman, prior to which he was a member of the Retail Bank Executive Committee of Barclays PLC. Tony is currently accountable within Nationwide for Strategy and Corporate Planning, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs, Change Management and Customer Experience.
Ben Stimson
Ben joined BSkyB in 2001. In 2007 he was appointed Director of Responsibility and Reputation for the company, and is the architect of integrating social and environmental considerations into one of the UK’s best known consumer brands. Ben leads for the company on corporate responsibility, community investment, accessibility, sponsorship and addressing climate change/environmental issues. He oversees both the design and delivery of the company’s work in these areas, and the engagement and communications/marketing activity with external and internal stakeholders.
Under his leadership Sky became the first carbon neutral media company in the world, and it has encouraged and supported a growing number of its customers and suppliers to join it. In 2007 the company was awarded the Man International Climate Change Award in recognition of its achievements. As passionate about business success as about social and environmental justice, Ben is a regular contributor at business schools and international conferences. He lives in Teddington – an easy bicycle to work - with his wife Mindy and daughter Anushka.
Maxine Taylor
Maxine is Divisional Director, Corporate Affairs at Nationwide Building Society. In her 25-year communications career, Maxine has worked across both private and voluntary sector organisations as well as acting as a policy adviser within the Cabinet Office under John Major's administration. Prior to joining Nationwide, she ran part of Cancer Research UK, covering policy, campaigning and cancer information for the charity. Maxine has also served as a Trustee with the Association of Medical Research Charities and on the Government's advisory body to support the introduction of the Cancer Reform Strategy.
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