Professor Sir Clive Booth: Board Chair
Sir Clive Booth took a science degree with first class honours from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in public finance from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a senior civil servant in the Department for Education until 1981 and Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State (1975-77).
He became successively Deputy Director of Plymouth Polytechnic (1981-84), associate HM Inspector of Schools (1984-86), Director of Oxford Polytechnic (1986-92) and Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Oxford Brookes University (1992-97).
Since 2004 he has been Chair of the Big Lottery Fund. He is also working with the National Offender Management Service on reducing re-offending. He was previously Chair of Centrex, the national police training body (2002-2007), chair of the Teacher Training Agency (1997-2003), chair of the Nurses Pay Review Body (1997-2004) and deputy chair of the South East England Development Agency (1998-2004).
He has been a senior education adviser to the World Bank and British Council and he conducted a major review for the Home Office of police pay negotiations in 2007. He is an editorial board member of the Oxford Review of Education. He struggles with an allotment, plays indifferent bridge and takes consolation in opera.
Anna Southall: Vice Chair
Anna Southall is a trustee of the Barrow Cadbury Trust and Fund, a charitable foundation which promotes social justice which she chaired from 1996 to 2006.
She is also ‘Lead Trustee’ for the Trust’s young Adults and Criminal Justice programme.
Her previous appointments include:
- Chief executive at Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
- Director of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales (1998-2002)
- member of the Advisory Panel on Futurebuilders
- on the Executive Committee of the Association of Charitable Foundations
- serves on the Spoliation Advisory Panel.
Sanjay Dighe: England Chair
Sanjay Dighe is currently Principal of Vega Risk Consulting providing training and consultancy in financial derivatives and risk management. He has previously held senior executive positions in investment banks including Global Head of Equity Derivatives at Banque Paribas Capital Markets.
Other experience includes:
- Councillor and Deputy Leader Harrow Council (Labour)
- Lead Member for Equalities, London Councils
- Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit Committee
- Central and North West London Mental Health Trust.
Sanjay is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a member of the Strategic Planning Society and founder member of the London chapter of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He is a Governor of two schools and a Further Education college and holds M.B.A and B.Sc. (Hons) degrees.
Breidge Gadd CBE: Northern Ireland Chair
Breidge Gadd has been a member of the Fund since May 2001 and was previously Chair of its Northern Ireland Committee.
She retired from the Probation Board for Northern Ireland in May 2000 after 14 years as its Chief probation Officer. During her full time career she was
- an expert advisor on criminal justice practice to the Council of Europe,
- a founding member of the European Conference on Probation and
- visiting professor to the University of Ulster.
Breidge is currently Deputy Chair of the recently established Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission. She is involved with the Edward de Bono Foundation in its work to establish an international centre for constructive thinking in North Belfast and she is a weekly columnist on a local daily newspaper.
She has several voluntary commitments including being a Governor of Hazelwood Integrated School.
Alison Magee: Scotland Chair
Alison Magee was the Convener of Highland Council for the four years to May 2007. She has had nearly 20 years’ experience in Scottish local government as an independent councillor, including:
- four years as Convener of Sutherland District Council
- chair of Highland 2007 (the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture)
- chair of Inverness City Partnership
- a member of Highland Health Board.
She has also been a Board Member of Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise, and previously ran a small business. She lives in central Sutherland.
Huw Vaughan Thomas: Wales Chair
Huw Vaughan Thomas has been Director of Taro Consultancy Ltd, a North Wales based company specialising in organisational, governance and economic policy work in the public sector, since June 2001.
He is currently a consumer representative on the Hearing Aid Council and an independent member of the Parole Board. He recently served as a Member of the Commission on Powers and Electoral Arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales.
His earlier career was spent in the civil service and local government. Previous posts have included:
- Chief Executive of Denbighshire County Council
- Chief Executive of Gwynedd County Council
- Director for Wales for the Manpower Services Commission and Department of Employment.
In his previous voluntary and public appointments he has been, amongst other things, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, a Council Member of the Prince’s Trust, Cymru, member of the National Trust’s Committee for Wales, a trustee of the RNID and a lay member of the Law Society’s Governing Council.
Judith Donovan CBE: General member
A Yorkshire businesswoman who founded her own direct marketing company in 1982, Judith Donovan was Chairman of Bradford TEC from 1989-97, the first female President of Bradford Chamber of Commerce from 1992-2001 and was Chairman of the Yorkshire Tourist Board 2005-08.
She has also held positions including:
- Health and Safety Commissioner since 2000
- director of the Northern Ballet Theatre
- member of the Programme Monitoring Committee for Objective 2 Funding for Yorkshire Humber
- Chairman of Postwatch for the North of England.
She was also a Millennium Commissioner, appointed January 2000.
Roland Doven MBE: General member
Roland Doven is a consultant to grant-makers and his clients have included The Camelot Foundation, the Home Office, GlaxoSmithKline and Hammersmith and Fulham New Deal for Communities. He chaired the Stonewall C21 Grants Committee (2000-2003) and was Director of Programmes at the Association of Charitable Foundations (1993-2000). He has been a Justice of the Peace for the Inner London Petty Sessional Division since 1990, and for nine years was an Independent Member of the Parole Board (1997-2006).
His previous appointments include:
- Co-founder and Vice-President of the National Association of Bereavement Services (1988-2002)
- Trustee of Addaction (2003-2005)
- Councillor, London Borough of Lambeth (1998-2002)
- Non-Executive Director of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (2002-2003)
- Lay Member of the General Medical Council (1999-2003).
He was awarded the MBE in 2004 for services to the community.
John Gartside OBE: General member
John Gartside is currently Chairman of the Warrington Primary care Trust. He is also a Trustee of the Jonathan Ball Tim Parry trust, a charity in Warrington focussing on young people, and Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire.
He has held the following positions:
- Member of Cheshire Courts Board
- Member of the Bar Society Standards Board Monitoring Committee
- Freeman of Warrington
- Chair of the NHS Warrington Community Health Care Trust (1995-2002)
- leader of the Warrington Local Unitary Authority (1992-2002)
- Chairman of the Cheshire Local Government Association (2000-2002)
- a founding member of the North West Regional Assembly before resigning in 2002.
He was, until October 2006, Chairman of the 5 Boroughs Partnership. 5 Boroughs Partnerships is a specialist mental health and learning difficulties trust that he founded in 2002, serving over one million people in the North West.
Albert Tucker: General member
Albert Tucker is a leading figure in the fair-trade movement and overseas development, and is an advocate for poor small farmers in global trade and policy. He has a longstanding track record with leading charitable funders financing UK and international development.
Albert has had senior management and non-executive roles in regeneration, community development and social enterprise.
He was Chief Executive of Twin and Twin Trading for nine years, and has been the chair of Comic Relief’s International Grants Committee and associated with Comic Relief for over 16 years, funding innovative programmes with poor communities in the UK, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He is also:
- trustee and grants panel member of the City Parochial Foundation
- a non-Executive Director of The Places for People Group, one of the largest and leading Registered Social Landlords in the UK
- chair of the Assurance and Regulation Board.
He currently works as an independent consultant and recently worked with the BBC, contributing to their Africa Lives season.
Diana Whitworth: General member
Diana Whitworth is a member of the Council of the Advertising Standards Authority, the patient and public representative on Connecting for Health’s Service Implementation Board.
She is also a member of the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R and D Board, and a trustee of Odyssey Trust, a pan-London drugs treatment charity.
She has previously held positions as:
- Chair of the External Reference Group for the National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions, which advised the government on standards of care for people with neurological conditions (2002-2005)
- Chief Executive of Carers UK (1999-2003)
- Head of Public Affairs at the National Consumer Council (1988-1999)
- Senior Research and Development Officer at Citizens Advice (1980-1999).
Diana is also co-director of Grandparents plus.
Declarations of Interest (PDF)
Board Meeting minutes and agendas
Board meeting minutes - July 2008 (RTF)
Board meeting minutes - May 2008 (PDF)
Board meeting minutes - April 2008 (PDF)
Board meeting minutes - January 2008 (PDF)
Board meeting minutes - November 2007 (PDF)
Board meeting minutes - September 2007 (PDF)
Board meeting agenda - July 2008 (RTF)
Board meeting agenda - May 2008 (RTF)
Board meeting agenda - April 2008 (RTF)
Board meeting agenda - January 2008 (RTF)
Board meeting agenda - November 2007 (RTF)
Board meeting agenda - September 2007 (RTF)
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