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The Board is responsible for the overall policy, finance, grant-making and administration of Big Lottery Fund.
Professor Sir Clive Booth: Board Chair
Sir Clive Booth was a senior civil servant in the Department for Education until 1981 and Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State (1975-77). His roles in education include:
- Deputy Director of Plymouth Polytechnic (1981-84),
- associate HM Inspector of Schools (1984-86),
- Director of Oxford Polytechnic (1986-92) and
- Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University (1992-97).
- Chair of the Teacher Training Agency (1997-2003),
He has also been part of the Nurses Pay Review Body (1997-2004) and was 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. He was knighted in 2003 for services to higher education.
He is Chair of Centrex, the national police training body, and he is also working with the National Offender Management Service on reducing re-offending and conducting a review for the Home Office on police pay. He is an editorial board member of the Oxford Review of Education.
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 was previously Chief Executive at Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, and before that Director of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales (1998-2002).
She is a member of the Advisory Panel on Future builders and the Executive Committee of the Association of Charitable Foundations. She also serves on the Spoliation Advisory Panel.
Sanjay Dighe: England Chair
Sanjay Dighe is currently Principal of Vega Risk Consulting, which provides 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, and 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.
Breidge Gadd CBE: Northern Ireland Chair
Breidge Gadd was a member of the New Opportunities Fund board between 2001 and 2006 and chaired its Northern Ireland Committee.Breidge retired from the Probation Board for Northern Ireland in May 2000 after 14 years as its Chief Probation Officer. She was an adviser on criminal justice to the Council of Europe, a founding member of the European Conference on Probation and visiting professor to the University of Ulster.
She is currently Deputy Chair of the 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 is a governor of Hazelwood Integrated School.
Alison Magee: Scotland Chair
Alison Magee was the Convener of Highland Council 2003-2007. She has had over 20 years’ experience in Scottish local government as an independent councillor, including four years as Convener of Sutherland District Council. She was Chair of Highland 2007, Chair of Inverness City Partnership, and a member of the Highland Health Board. She has also been a board member of Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise, and previously ran a small business.
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. He was formerly Chief Executive of Denbighshire County Council, Chief Executive of Gwynedd County Council, and Director for Wales for the Manpower Services Commission and Department of Employment. He has also been 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
Judith Donovan comes from Yorkshire. She founded her own direct marketing company in 1982, was Chairman of Bradford TEC from 1989-97, President of Bradford Chamber of Commerce from 1992-2001 and Chairman of the Yorkshire Tourist Board 2005-08.
She has been a Health and Safety Commissioner since 2000, is a director of the Northern Ballet Theatre, member of the Programme Monitoring Committee for Objective 2 Funding for Yorkshire and Humber, and Chairman of Postwatch for the North of England. She also sat on the Millennium Commission.
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 and Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire. He is a member of the Cheshire Courts Board, a member of the Bar Society Standards Board Monitoring Committee and a Freeman of Warrington.
He was Chair of the NHS Warrington Community Health Care Trust (1995-2002) and also served for 10 years as leader of the Warrington Local Unitary Authority (1992-2002). He was, until October 2006, Chairman of the 5 Boroughs Partnership, a specialist mental health and learning difficulties trust that he founded in 2002, serving more than 1 million people in the North West. He was also Chairman of the Cheshire Local Government Association (2000-2002) and a founding member of the North West Regional Assembly.
Esther O'Callaghan: General member (resigned 18 May 2008)
Esther O’Callaghan established the Factory Record Store in Manchester in 2002, becoming the North West finalist for Shell Live Wires’ ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003’. Using profits from the business she set up the Factory Foundation, the UK’s first AQA accredited organisation, delivering free music workshops for disaffected children and young people across Greater Manchester.
Esther DJs across Europe and is an award-winning producer with the Manchester International Festival. She is a Vice-President for the Community Foundation for Greater Manchester, a volunteer business mentor for the Prince’s Trust, sits on the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Steering Committee, was named the 2005 Clarins ‘Most Dynamic Woman of the Year’, and is a Governor for the Olympics Legacy UK.
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, including:
- Chief Executive of Twin and Twin Trading
- Chair of Comic Relief’s International Grants Committee
- a 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.
Diana Whitworth: General member
Diana Whitworth is co-director of Grandparents Plus. She is a member of the Council of the Advertising Standards Authority, the patient and public representative on Connecting for Health’s Service Implementation Board, a member of the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R and D Board, and a trustee of the Odyssey Trust, a London drugs treatment charity.
She was 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). She was Chief Executive of Carers UK (1999-2003), Head of Public Affairs at the National Consumer Council (1988-1999) and Senior Research and Development Officer at Citizens Advice (1980-1999).
Declarations of Interest (PDF)
Board Meeting minutes and agendas
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 minutes - July 2007 (PDF)
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)
Board meeting agenda - July 2007 (RTF)
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