| Board of Trustees
Matthew Bell (Chair)
Matt is the Director of Policy and Communications for CABE, the government's commission for architecture and the built environment. As part of the senior management team, he leads on policy, research, public relations and campaigns. This follows five years on the global senior management of VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) as Communications Director.
Matt has worked on grassroots community development programmes in both Bolivia and Thailand, and spent 10 years in the UK international NGO sector after completing a Masters at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is married with two children.
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Dr Julie Carter
After completing initial clinical training in speech therapy and a Masters in Neurosciences, Julie 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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Sir Richard Storey Bt MA LLB (Cantab) CBE DL
Sir Richard Storey was Director and Chairman of Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers Plc from 1973-1998. Other past chairmanships include the Press Association, York Health Services NHS Trust, Fleming Mid Cap Investment Trust, and the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum. His past directorships include Reuters Holdings Plc, Foreign & Colonial Smaller Companies Plc, One Stop Community Stores, European Newspaper Publishers' Association, INCA-FIEJ (IFRA), Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Foundation; Member of the Press Council 1980-86, President Newspaper Society 1990/91. He currently is a Trustee of the Castle Howard Arboretum Trust, and non-executive Director of eFinancialNews Ltd. Sir Richard has two honorary degrees from Portsmouth and Sunderland Universities respectively. He is married with three children and lives in North Yorkshire.
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Tony Swayne (Treasurer)
Tony 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 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 is currently Fundraising Director at Shelter, where he has been for six 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 graduated from Trinity College Dublin in Civil Engineering, and is now a
a partner at Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank. He is responsible for marketing the firm's bond market services to European clients, Corporate clients, Financial Institutions and Governments. He has been at Goldman Sachs for seven years and is on the board of the firm's Charitable Contributions Committee. James’s previous employers include Union Bank of Switzerland and Citigroup. 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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