| Board of Trustees
Tim Richards (Chair)
Tim Richards is Founder and CEO of Vue Entertainment – the popular cinema chain across the UK. Before entering the entertainment industry Tim was a Wall Street lawyer specialising in international finance, cross-border mergers and acquisitions while based in London and New York.
Over the course of the last 19 years in cinema exhibition Tim has developed extensive operational experience in over 14 major international markets and has an excellent understanding of the countries and cultures in which some of our programmes operate.
Both Vue Entertainment and Tim himself have received numerous awards and accolades. Tim is also Vice Chairperson of Skillset, a Board Director of Film London, a Council Member of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts and a Council Member and Executive Director of the British Screen Advisory Council.
Tim is married and has three children. His interests are his family, films, reading and sports. A former international ski racer, Tim is still an avid skier, windsurfer, runner, cyclist and tennis player.
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Dr Julie Carter
After completing initial clinical training in speech therapy and a Masters in Neurosciences, Dr Julie Carter lived and worked in coastal Kenya. She carried out her doctoral work on the impact of severe malaria on the health and development of children.
Since returning to the UK, Julie has worked at the Centre for International Health and Development at University College London, regularly travelling to resource-poor countries to carry out research and consultancy work, and lecturing MSc students in international child health. Her areas of specialist interest include the impact of infectious diseases on children's development; the effect of community-based interventions in alleviating these problems; and the consequences of orphanhood on the health and wellbeing of children.
Apart from her work as a lecturer at UCL, Julie is a writer and also runs workshops to train NGO workers from resource-poor countries to write for publications.
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Natalie Acton
Natalie Acton is the Head of Strategic Communications at the Department for International Development (DFID), a post she took up following a Masters degree in Public Administration at Harvard University. Prior to this, she spent two years at HM Treasury and four years at 10 Downing Street as a policy advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair on home affairs and children’s policy. On leaving No.10, Natalie spent two years at Lewisham Borough Council as Assistant Director for Children’s Services. She then went to the Department for Children, Schools and Families where she led the Government’s reform programme for children in care, resulting in the Care Matters White Paper and Parliamentary Bill.
Natalie has been an independent visitor to a child in care in the UK for five years, and was previously on the boards of both the UK charity Beatbullying and Ravenstone Primary School in South London.
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Tony Swayne (Treasurer)
Tony Swayne is a Chartered Accountant and an Electrical Engineer. From 1983 to 1998 Tony was a main board director of Faber Prest Plc, a quoted company that provided services to the steel industry. Since then he has been Finance Director of SHL Group Plc, the quoted psychometric testing company. Tony then ran and owned his own electrical engineering business, Andolite Limited. He is married with four children.
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Jim Rice
Jim Rice is a Partner of Linklaters LLP, the international law firm, and has been at the firm since 1980. Jim is actively involved in Linklaters' Community Investment programme and is currently the head of the Capital Markets practice at Linklaters. He is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford. Jim is married with three children and lives in London.
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Alan Gosschalk
Alan Gosschalk is currently Fundraising & Communications Director at AMREF UK and he was previously Fundraising Director at Shelter for nine years. Previously he held the same role at RNID. For the last five years, the readers of Professional Fundraising magazine have voted him one of the top three most influential people in fundraising, mainly for his role in galvanising the sector to be more transparent and accountable, and to do more to educate the public, supporters and media about the realities of modern-day charities.
Alan started his charity life at Help the Aged before moving onto Imperial Cancer Research Fund where he was Head of Marketing and won 'Charity Direct Marketeer of the Year'.
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Bridget Cluley
Bridget Cluley has worked in fundraising for 27 years, over which time she has gathered a great deal of experience of raising funds through volunteers, managing staff who work with volunteers, and the issues surrounding this activity. Bridget was a member of the Community Fundraising Department at the NSPCC for 16 years, starting as a Community Fundraising Manager in a local area and finally achieving the role of Head of Community Fundraising, managing staff and volunteers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. She was responsible for the creation of strategies to support and grow the community fundraising base of the NSPCC many of which are still in place and thriving today.
For the last 11 years Bridget has worked as a Consultant with clients such as Marie Curie Cancer Care, British Heart Foundation, Elizabeth Finn Care, RNIB, and Guide Dogs for the Blind. She has helped develop their strategies for volunteers and training staff who work with volunteers.
Following her time as a member of staff at the NSPCC Bridget was invited to become a Trustee – the first and (so far) only member of staff to do so. Bridget stepped down from the Board in October 2007 having served for 9 years. She is a regular speaker at the Institute of Fundraising Annual Convention and is a Fellow of the Institute of Fundraising.
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James Garvey
James Garvey graduated from Trinity College Dublin in Civil Engineering. He has spent 22 years with various financial organisations in the City of London. He has worked for Citigroup, Union Bank of Switzerland and most recently at Goldman Sachs. He spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs and was a partner in the bond market division marketing the firm's services to European Corporate, Financial Institution and Government clients. While at Goldman Sachs he was on the board of the firm's Charitable Contributions Committee. James is married with three children and lives in London. back to top
Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
Born in Sierra Leone, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams is the Head of Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. He is a member of the British Academy Africa Panel and is the current (2006-2008) President of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
Tunde is an author of several books, articles and reviews on the political economy of Africa and the African diaspora. His research includes: The Role of Child Soldiers in the Civil Wars in West Africa; Diamond Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone; Structural Adjustment Programmes in Africa; and State and Society in Africa and the Africa Diaspora. Tunde is married with two children. back to top
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