Breidge Gadd: Chair
Breidge has been involved in social and probation work during her full time professional career. She worked in a range of settings including urban and rural communities and in the prisons in Northern Ireland.
She taught in both UU and QUB on a part time basis and was Chief Probation Officer for the Northern Ireland Probation Board from 1986 until 2000. She was an advisor on criminal justice practice to the Council of Europe, a founding member of the European Conference on Probation and a visiting Professor at U.U until 2006.
She is currently Deputy Chair of the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission and is a weekly columnist on a local daily newspaper.
Breidge was appointed as the Northern Ireland Board Member for the New Opportunities Fund in 2001 and served on Big Lottery Fund’s co-terminous Board between 2004 and 2006. She was appointed as Northern Ireland Board Member for Big Lottery in December 2006.
Breidge has a range of voluntary interests. She is a former Trustee of Lloyd’s TSB Foundation, a former Board member of The Womens’ TEC and was chairperson of Threshold, a mental health charity. Currently she is a Governor of Hazelwood School, a member of the Bytes Board and a Trustee of the Edward de Bono Foundation.
Paul Cavanagh
Paul is the Commissioning Manager for Mental Health and Learning Disability with the Western Health and Social Services Board. Until recently, he was Manager of the Northern Sector Local Health and Social Care Group (LHSCG) in WHSSB area, working to develop, in partnership, primary care centred services which meet local needs.
Paul was Manager of the Western Health Action Zone, a partnership committed to alleviating inequalities in health among older people and families living in poverty. Paul is formerly the Chief Executive of City Centre Initiative in Derry, a Town Centre Management company, and Co-ordinator of the North West Community Network, a leading community development support agency.
In the past, he was a member of the Boards of the Big Lottery Fund and of the Community Fund; a member of the Government Task Force on Resourcing the Voluntary and Community Sector (chairing its Sustainability Working Group); a member of the BBC Northern Ireland Appeals Advisory Committee; Joint Chair of the Government / Voluntary & Community Sector Forum; and founder of the Cross-Border Community Development Project.
Paul chairs the BIG Young People’s Fund in Northern Ireland. He is also a member of the Local Strategy Partnership in Derry City Council area.
Claire Keatinge
Claire is the Director of the Alzheimer's Society in Northern Ireland.
Claire hasnearly 20years experience in the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland - includingas Director Community Development and Health at Age Concern Northern Ireland, as Director of the Association of Chief Officers of Voluntary Organisations, Manager of Belfast Women's Training services, and as a Training and Development Officer with Belfast LawCentre (now Law Centre NI).
Claire has also worked in London Local Government providing grant making management and support services to the voluntary and community sector, primarily with the Greater London Council and with the London Strategic Policy Unit.
Claire has a particular interest in the promotion of physical activity with older people - and on access to independent information and advocacy that enables people to make informed choices based on independent information. Equality, inclusion and promotion of high quality voluntary and community sector responses to social need are key focus areas in all of Claire's work."
Peter Osborne
Peter Osborne leads Rubicon management consultancy, specialising in good relations, community and economic development. He has managed and produced a wide range of development, strategic and business plans, feasibility studies, evaluations and economic appraisals.
Peter is a non-executive Director of the South and East Belfast Health and Social Services Trust and a voluntary SEUPB review panel member for Peace II Extension. He was an Enterprise Ulster Board Member and a former Northern Ireland Partnership Board Director.
Peter served on Castlereagh Borough Council for 12 years. He has been heavily involved in a number of cross-community and practical community relation’s work for many years.
Peter co-founded and chaired for the first seven years, Landmark East, a not-for-profit property development social enterprise, which won an Aisling Award. He also established and chaired the Enler steering group, resulting in a £3 million funding package in Ballybeen for a multi-care, retail and community facility.
Siobhan Craig
Siobhan is Director of The Prince's Trust in Northern Ireland. She joined The Prince's Trust in 2002 and was appointed Director for Northern Ireland in September 2004, previously holding the post of Head of Corporate Services.
Before joining The Trust she was Head of Development with the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre where she established a number of social economy enterprises including the training organisation Foster College.
Siobhan has a background in youth work and law and is a member of a range of boards including the Children's Law Centre and Urban 2 and the Big Lottery Fund.
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