Who's who
Debbie started working for Attend in June 2007 as part of the office services team supporting Janet, the Office Services Manager. She has now moved to provide support to the Membership Support team. Her job entails day to day membership enquiries, new membership and membership renewals, producing our e newsletters and updating member details on our database. Debbie also deals with the ordering and despatching of our Freshen Up! courtesy packs.
Before Debbie came to Attend she spent several years working in a Graphic Design Studio and some years with other charities such as The Work Foundation and Centrepoint. Debbie's spare time is spent with friends and family especially her granddaughter, as well as visiting exhibitions, reading, walking.
Terry and her husband Phil live near Guildford along with two of their five children.
Her career has been varied and she has gained experience across the public, private and voluntary sectors working in administration, sales/marketing and health. Over 14 years ago she joined the voluntary sector where she took a position as a Volunteer Centre Manager. After several years of learning the ‘volunteering’ ropes she joined Attend (then the NAHCF) as a Regional Co-ordinator for Kent, Surrey & Sussex. This role was expanded and by the time she left some six years later she was the Regional Development Manager for the South East and South West regions. During this period she successfully achieved the CIPD Volunteer Manager NVQ 5 qualification through the Attend Academy.
In 2003 she developed links with Homestart North East Hampshire and took the role of Vice Chairman for 7 years until she joined Attend as regional secretary for the South East.
Following a brief spell as a Senior Policy Officer, Terry was employed as Chief Executive with Community First East Hampshire, a position she has held for the last three years.
She has a keen interest in cooking, dance and musical theatre.
Christina has been volunteering with the Friends of Raigmore Hospital, Inverness for more than twenty five years holding various posts. Currently she is the Chairman. Over the years she has also served on the Attend Alba committee .
After taking early retirement, volunteering has become a major part of Christina's life.
Christina represents the Highland Council as a Lay Visitor at her local prison, sits on the Board of a Housing Society, is secretary of her local Community Council, Inverness Town Twinning Committee, and volunteer secretary for the Inverness Music Festival and a representative for the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music for Inverness and Dingwall.
Steven has been a volunteer at Attend since 2008, and has developed a role in fundrasing assistance, research and bid writing in association with the team Steven supports. Steven feels he has rapidly improved his knowledge and skills in this area and currently works on small and medium bids for Attend.
Dawn started working for Attend in October 2011 as the Office & Finance Administrator. Her role includes being first point of contact for visitors and answering the telephone, opening post and distributing it to all staff as well as working on specific tasks when required. Dawn also books accommodation and meeting rooms and arranges travel for theChief Executive. She supports Janet Simpson, the Office Services Manager.
'I enjoy my role as it is varied, interesting and busy. Before I joined Attend I worked for the King's Fund for over 20 years.'
Yvonne Coghill is a professionally qualified senior manager with more than 30 years experience in the NHS, working as a clinician, facilitator and manager in the acute, mental health and primary care sectors. In addition, she has extensive experience in service improvement, organisational change and policy development in the National Primary Care Development Team (NPDT), Modernisation Agency, Department of Health (DH) and most recently the NHS Institute of Innovation and Improvement. Yvonne has the confidence and ability to lead major national projects such as the National Breaking Through Programme of which she is currently head, her extensive networks both internal and external to the NHS enable her to promote and publicise whichever project she works on.
Yvonne has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the NHS, having spent many years engaging and working with managers and clinicians. She is a first class communicator with an natural ability to motivate and inspire colleagues. Her inclusive style enables, empowers and enthuses healthcare professionals to be innovative and creative.
Yvonne is passionate about fairness, equality and inclusion and enjoys supporting and developing people to give of their best. She is a trained and qualified coach as well as being qualified to give feedback in MBTI, Belbin, eTLQ and NHS LQF 360.
In her spare time Yvonne has trained to be a style and colour analyst, she enjoys, reading, travelling and keeping fit.
Becki has a Disability Studies Master's Degree with Distinction, Business Management Honours Degree and NVQ Level 2 in Youth and Community Work. Beginning in youth work, Becki has since carved very successful careers in Volunteer Management and Training Development.
As the only disabled Youth Worker in her area, Becki quickly became an experienced Disability Equality Trainer and ignited her passion for empowering and inspiring through informative and interactive training delivery. Becki subsequently took the role as Manager of Scope's Inclusive Volunteering Project, successfully working with over 700 volunteer-involving organisations through a programme of Inclusive Volunteering Training.
With over five years experience of recruiting and managing disabled volunteers and ten years Consultancy and Training experience, Becki has an in-depth understanding of the barriers to being inclusive and the practical, realistic and achievable solutions that can ensure your organisation and staff are disabled-volunteer ready.
Combining her enthusiasm for volunteering, dedication to promoting inclusion and passion for professional training, Becki is now the Managing Director of The Inspirations Consultancy, providing a range of Disability Equality, awareness raising and best practice consultancy and training across public, private and voluntary sectors.
Susanne first joined Attend in 2004 when it was the NAHCF where she had the role of Regional Development Manager for the East of England and London. She moved to the UK from Sweden in 1984 but manages to get back several times a year to see family and friends. She is passionate about volunteers, volunteering and the difference they bring, and has a special interest in animals and disability.
She first started volunteering with Riding for the Disabled as a teenager and has continued in various roles for different causes ever since. She worked many years in the travel industry before moving into the education system and has also run her own business. She currently works for the Motor Neurone Disease Association where she is developing volunteering in the East of England, East Midlands, and Thames Valley.
She lives in a Cambridgeshire village with her husband, and 2 daughters and a dog, and in her spare time enjoys traveling, skiing, walking, reading and spending time with the family, and seeing friends.
Between 1972 and 1990 Michael served in the army. He transferred from the Regulars to the Territorial Army in 1988. After leaving the regular army Michael joined an advertising agency as business development director where he formed a business group specialising in charity advertising and fundraising for clients like the RSPCA.
As an amateur artist and while still serving in the army, he formed Teaching Art Limited which develops and publishes non-broadcast TV programmes on learning how to paint and draw. This involved creating an association for artists, both amateur and professional, membership of which enables them to buy materials on-line, to submit their work to regional and national exhibitions as well as enabling them to develop a network of like-minded enthusiasts as friends.
A car accident in 1990 resulted in him having to give up work and embark upon a long rehabilitation during which time he was able to provide marketing, communications and advertising consultancy to clients in need of help but without the budgets to match.
Michael believes that "...free consultancy may appear to be a daft thing to offer people but it's a great way to rebuild one's skills after a traumatic head injury. Importantly, people tend to be quite forgiving when one delivers a rather direct appraisal of their strategy and such directness is attributed to a 'bang on the head'!"
Baroness Emerton was registered as a State Certified Midwife in 1954, as a State Registered Nurse in 1957, a Registered Nurse Tutor in 1964. She was County Commissioner of St. John Ambulance, Kent 1985-88 and Chief Nursing Officer for St. John Ambulance between 1988 and 1996. She was created Baroness Emerton, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington in 1997.
Dan Fletcher has been a fundraiser for more than 15 years. He has formerly held roles as a Director of Fundraising at St John's Hospice, Head of Partnerships and Fundraising at The Kings Fund, Head of Fundraising Development for local hospital charity, Enhance Herts, and Head of Fundraising and Business Partnerships at the Foyer Federation.
He is Vice Chair of legacy promotion consortium Remember a Charity, and sits on the Institute of Fundraising's Learning & Development committee and London Region committee
Bridget joined Attend in 2009 as a job coach on the ABI work programme. She moved into the Membership Services team in 2010 and finally left the organisation at the end of 2011; she is now a Business Development Manager at the ACCA. She has over 20 years experience in sales and business development and has worked in all sectors.
Bridget along with a number of colleagues helped develop the idea for Friends of Attend; she has been a trustee of the group since it was launched in 2010. Her connection with Head Office and the group is an important part of her life and she is passionate about what Attend and the Friends of Attend stand for.
As well as her voluntary work for the FOAT she volunteers as a school governor for a local primary school; her special interest is special educational needs. She is married with two daughters; she enjoys singing and gardening and the odd Zumba class.
Kathleen has been a member of Deeside Community Hospital League of Friends, North Wales since 1997. She became Regional Chair for the North of Wales in 2010. "Volunteering becomes a way of life that benefits so many people - not least the volunteers themselves. To be an effective group it is essential to have guidance on so many issues such as adequate insurance (employee, personal and public indemnity), Charity status, (registering with the Charity Commission) Health and Safety issues, education, the list is endless. Being a member of a national organisation such as Attend means correct advice is only a phone call away."
Emma has built a career as a programme manager around equality and diversity, health and the voluntary sector in England. She has worked for three national voluntary sector support charities around these issues; the National Children's Bureau (NCB), BTEG (the Black Training and Enterprise Group) and the Consortium of LGBT VCOs (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered voluntary and community organisations). Emma's particular areas of interest and expertise include volunteering, capacity building, equality and diversity and health policy. She is a trustee of Olmec, a social enterprise led by BAME communities which champions race equality through economic and social justice, and she volunteers as a mentor to an Iranian woman at the Migrants' Resource Centre. Emma has an MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge University and a BA in Spanish and Portugese from the University of Birmingham.
Peter was elected as a Conservative MP for Angus in 1979, where he remained in the House of Commons until June 1987. He became Lord Advocate in 1989 as well as a life peer and a member of the Privy Council. As Lord Advocate, he had ultimate responsibility for the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie investigation. He has appeared for the United Kingdom in both the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. From 1992 to 1995 he was Minister of State at the Scottish Office covering Home Affairs and Health.
Rachel lives in Devon but spent most of her childhood and teenage years living in Africa, surrounded by some of the worst third world poverty and witnessed many years of drought with all the horrors it brings to those trying to survive the conditions. Having undertaken a teaching diploma she then worked for 17 years in Barclays Bank Plc. Her current role is as Chief Executive of Estuary League of Friends, a community based league whose work revolves around assisting anyone in their community to live as independenlty as possible in their own home. Estuary has 12 members of paid staff and over 60 volunteers and has seen its work grow by 20% in the last 12 months.
Alan has been a volunteer for 42 years. Volunteering started in Bradford 31 Round Table and as Chairman he helped raise money and give time to many causes.
Alan has taken part in three London and one New York marathon, raising a total of £35,000. This money was donated to the NSPCC and St Johns Ambulance.
As a member of the Samaritans, Alan was involved in fundraising and became Chairman of the branch committee, these duties were in addition to the regular Samaritans telephone duty.
Alan has also sat on the volunteer forum of Bradford Royal Infirmary, and for 15 years has been a volunteer for the Annette Fox Leukemia Research Fund, for ten of those years as Chairman of Trustees. The aim of the Fund is to provide that extra care and help which will benefit the patients, provide equipment and fund some medical posts. The Fund has raised £2,000000.
Alan is a Board member of Inclusion Housing, whose aim is to provide housing for vulnerable people.
Richard is a Senior Civil Servant with over twenty years experience in government, serving under five different Prime Ministers. He is currently responsible for innovation at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Richard's early career was as a professional mathematician (and later economist), working on issues as diverse as the operational security of prison perimeters, the social impact of allowing convicted prisoners to wear their own clothes, and the financial impact of "three strikes and you're out" legislation. He is Head of Profession for DCLG's Operational Researchers.
Richard is also a trustee of the volunteering and training charity CSV (www.csv.org.uk) and, in his spare time, he helps organise and run a large, friendly amateur choir in South London (www.festivalchorus.co.uk).
Dame Elisabeth Hoodless is a former Islington Councillor and currently a volunteer youth court magistrate, chairing Islington Youth Court. She is President of Volonteurope (European network of volunteer agencies), Vice Chair of Innovations in Civic Participation (USA), and Chairman of the International Association for National Youth Service. She is married to Donald Hoodless, Chairman of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. She is a proud grandmother of two.
After leaving Grove Park Grammar School, Phil attended the Liverpool University School of Hygiene from where he graduated as an Environmental Health Officer in 1971. He was appointed to the post of Chief Environmental Health Officer in 1985 and subsequently Chief Public Protection Officer to the Wrexham County Borough Council, taking responsibility for the Environmental Health, Trading Standards and Markets functions of that Authority until a period of prolonged ill-health forced his early retirement in 1998.
Phil started volunteering in the mid-70s when he chaired a fundraising committee which collected donations from council staff. They donated considerable sums of money to local charities and needy individuals.He was recruited to Wrexham Hospital League of Friends before he left to form and become Secretary of a new Friends Group. He has been the elected “constituency Member” for the North East Wales area and Regional Chairman for Wales. He was re-elected to the Board in 2008 and is currently in his second term having been re-elected in 2011.
After early retirement Phil became a self employed training consultant providing Food Safety training to the Food Service Industry throughout North Wales and in particular to employees in the childcare environment within which sphere his wife also works as a full-time training Officer for a Wales Assembly funded organisation. Phil's other interests include being a member of the North Wales Valuation Tribunal and being an active participant in Freemasonry within the Wrexham and North Wales areas.
Abdur joined Attend as a volunteer research administrator in spring of 2010, and after a few months started working full time. Now, his main responsibilities are to supporting Attend Academy; He deals with administration, works on research projects and also gets involved in the delivery of some training sessions. Another important aspect of his role is to support the central office, in particular with preparation of financial reports. Before joining Attend he was studying at the University of Warwick, and graduated with an Integrated Masters degree in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics. Post work he tries to make time for friends and other interests such as the study of the Arabic language.
Kate joined Myton Hospice as CEO in December 2010 after leaving British Red Cross, where she had been for 16 years in various roles including Director of Strategy and Director of UK Operations. During 2010 she took a break to study as a full-time Clore Social Fellow, to complete some research into the state of transparency across the voluntary sector and undertake various charity consultancy projects. She is a very proud trustee of Coppafeel.org and lives in Coventry with her husband, two children and an allotment.
Kieran manages the delivery and development on the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) vocational rehabilitation programme and actively supports the delegates to achieve their goals to volunteering, employment and further education. He is an Access to Work (ATW) job coach specialising in supporting people with ABI whilst managing the ATW delivery for Attend.
"The ABI programme has opened my eyes to another world which I would not have normally come across. I find the solutions to the problems people with ABI are faced with can be simple on paper but in reality there is a complex web of barriers and issues that need to be addressed and moved forward".
Physical exercise has always been a part of Kieran's life. He enjoys playing sport in general but golf and football are itches that need to be scratched. He enjoys music and has played guitar for many years.
Anthony Mercier originally joined Attend as an intern upon graduating from the University of Sussex in Psychology. Anthony has worked largely on assisting the delivery and development of the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) vocational rehabilitation programme, which he has thoroughly enjoyed.
Anthony then worked in talent and development for a large retailer, before jumping at the chance of returning to Attend last year.
Anthony is now a lot more involved in finding volunteering solutions for Attend's clients, he also provides support to the ABI programme and leads Attend's Access to Work (ATW) programme, providing support for people with ABI who are in employment.
When not at work, Anthony plays football and enjoys running.
Steve is an independent consultant who has been associated with the organisation for many years. Steve's initial career was in education but moved to the voluntary sector ten years ago. Here he worked both in managing volunteers and in the HR department. For seven years he has also worked as a tutor with BPP, which is the largest professional training organisation in Europe. He led the development of the Certificate Programme for Volunteer Services Managers, which is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. In parallel, he has always maintained a portfolio of clients in the voluntary and community sector. He carries out a variety of roles from HR advice, strategic analysis, workshop and conference facilitation and study days. Recently, he has also sat on the steering group reviewing the National Occupational Standards for volunteer management.
Steve's work with Attend has also included OFV grants administration, putting together fundraising applications for consideration by Trust funds and statutory funding rounds. He is currently actively involved in ‘Attend Academy’, which puts together and delivers a range of professional training and accredited programmes tailored to the voluntary sector.
Pam has spent her entire career in education in the North of England, for most of which she was a headteacher. Volunteering has always run through her life, and she first learned to knit making squares for blankets for refugees at the age of five. The refugees she knitted for were Jewish children coming out of Europe on the Kinder Transports.
When she left school she started volunteer work with Oxfam, through which she became connected with a good deal of work locally and nationally with World Refugee Year and later helped arrange sponsorships for displaced people still in Europe after the close of that year. Pam first started volunteering for Friends 14 years ago in York and is well known for the fundraising and social events that she organises.
Pam was Chair of Yorkshire and the Humber region of Attend for three years and provided temporary cover in the North East for almost a year. She is a keen supporter of the national body and has sat on a number of committees. Pam was Chairman of the National body from 2007 until 2011, and her work was recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2009.
Simon began volunteering as a teenager and has continued his devotion to volunteerism in health and social care throughout his life. In 1974 Simon was appointed Social Therapist for the continuing care unit at Nottingham City, eventually developing volunteering opportunities across most areas of the hospital. The 1997 report ‘Strengthening Volunteering Within the NHS’ resulted in his appointment as corporate lead for volunteering and community involvement.
During an NHS career of over 30 years, Simon was also a member of the National Association of Voluntary Service Manager (NAVSM) of which he was Chairman until May 2006 and his active networking brought him to Friends regional meetings. Although retired from the NHS he is still passionate about volunteering in heath and social care and the difference it can make to local communities. Simon undertook a consultancy on behalf of Attend during the Spring of 2006 and was appointed by Attend as Regional Development Manager for the Midlands with lead responsibility for Volunteering in Hospitals, in September 2006.
Simon enjoys cooking and lives in the Vale of Belvoir with his wife, Anita, a retired District Nurse who shares his interest in steam railways and classic cars – we own a 1960s’ Triumph Vitesse convertible. Personal interest in local developments led him to join the League of Friends of the Grantham Hospital and he was elected Chairman of this charity in July 2007. Internal re-organisation within Attend led Simon to become NHS Development Manager in October 2008. He was appointed Chairman, East Midlands Region in December 2008.
Bobbi-Jade has recently joined Attend after completing an apprenticeship course in Business and ICT. She is now on a 6 month work experience, working beside Debbie Baverstock in the membership support team. She is currently working on the new Attend website and is responsible for the Attend social networking accounts. Bobbi-Jade is aspiring to be an accountant, she is gaining the experience of working in an office based environment at Attend and will then proceed on a 3 year accounting course (AAT) in September 2012. Bobbi-Jade enjoys dancing and is part of a company which specialises in Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap and Street. In her spare time, she often helps out at a nursing home, serving food. She also attends weekly sessions at the gym which encourages her to complete a goal.
Working for the BBC between 1965 and 1977 on current affairs and further education television programmes. She then became a journalist on the BBC's prestigious Panorama programme, and Thames Television's This Week. She went on to present the BBC 2 series Social History of Medicine. She was appointed a life peer in 1992 with the title of Baroness Jay of Paddington, of Paddington in the City of Westminster, and acted as an opposition Whip in the House of Lords. In association with the shop workers' union, she led opposition to the liberalisation of Sunday trading hours. After her party's election victory in 1997, she became Health Spokesman and Minister for Women in the House of Lords. From 1998 she was Leader of the House of Lords, playing a pivotal role in the major reform that led to the removal of most of its hereditary members. She retired from active politics in 2001.
Her father was former Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan,
Charles is currently working as part of the Nutrition Policy Team at the Department of Health working on the 5 A DAY (just eat more fruit and vegetables) programme and the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme. He is also involved in cross Government delivery work on the Cabinet Office’s Food Matters – Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century.
From March 2004 until October 2008 Charles was one of the national associate directors within the Partnership Development Team of the Care Service Improvement Partnership (CSIP), a part of the Department of Health’s Health and Care Partnerships Directorate. Charles has worked in a variety of areas within the Department of Health (DH) and the NHS Executive. This has included: partnership working between the NHS and VCS organisations. He was the NHS Executive London Region’s Regional Manager supporting Community Health Councils.
Charles has also worked for the Employer’s Forum on Disability, Business in the Community (Education Business Partnerships), School Curriculum Industry Partnership (University of Warwick), the National Curriculum Council, Secondary Examinations Council, Our Price/Virgin Records, McDonalds and prior to coming to England 23 years ago, a music company in Australia.
Charles has also undertaken a range of voluntary activity in his spare time and was a volunteer with a learning disabilities charity in Toowoomba, Australia, a mentor for Chestnut Grove School (Balham, London), an appeals committee member for Graveney School (Tooting, London), Vice Chair and trustee of Assisted Living (Islington, London). Currently he is a board member/trustee for Flipside (Lambeth Crime Prevention, London) as well as Attend.
Charles’ passion is to develop and support work within systems that enable people to achieve their full potential.
Rose is Chairman of The League of Friends for Peterhead Ugie & Community Hospital. She began volunteering in 1986 after retiring from a 26-year career as a nurse. She was also holding this position when she received her BEM in 1988. Rose, determined that she wanted to give something back to the community, decided to start up the League of Friends in Peterhead and try to raise much needed funds for the hospital she'd previously worked for. As a result of achievements made through her fundraising initiatives, Rose was awarded her BEM in 1988 from the Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire. She recalls this as an event that sits amongst her proudest moments. Her work with the League also saw her become the Scottish Regional Chairman of the National Association of Hospital League of Friends and also onto the Board of Trustees in London. For her tireless efforts and determination to raise funds, Rose was also made Vice President which gives her life membership to Attend.
Rose is an unassuming individual who continues to see her priority remain at raising as much funds as possible to ensure the continued comfort of patients in hospital, without reward.
Rose also received the Sapphire Award in 1995 in recognition for her outstanding help to patients.
Lee Robinson has been managing Robinson Consultancy since 2008, delivering training, evaluation and research solutions to the third and public sectors. As a skilled project manager, Lee has experience of managing projects that require collaborating with a range of stakeholders and communicating sophisticated projects, research and evaluation methodologies in a straight forward way.
Having spent several years working with various charities and social enterprises prior to becoming a consultant Lee became a qualified NLP practitioner during this time, focusing on the coaching application of NLP. Lee also gained experience of grant and community fundraising, as well as managing delivery and infrastructure projects. Lee's previous work managing an LGBT domestic violence helpline also contributes to his competence in working with vulnerable clients in a supportive and appropriate manner.
Lee has experience of conducting assessment in a variety of contexts having assessed professional candidates for city and guilds qualifications as well as being a registered psychometric test-user with the British Psychological Society. His recent work has included monitoring and evaluation work involving social return on investment analysis, contributing to the development and assessment of organisational quality standards and research on the influnence of employee control beliefs in determing employee job crafting behaviour. He has also worked up a numberof social business cases for various third sector projects.
Janet joined the organisation five years ago as PA to the Chairman and Chief Executive of Attend. Having previously worked for a software retail distribution company and within education, the Charity and volunteering sector has proved to be enjoyable but challenging. Janet has worked in administration for over 15 years and it is an area of work she thoroughly enjoys. Not only that,she's found over the years it has given her the opportunity to learn many new things.
"During what leisure time I have, I divide between my family abroad and socialising with friends that I have kept in touch with since leaving full-time education. I do like art, and when I can, I love to help my elderly neighbours with gardening."
Beverley has nearly 30 years’ experience in HR, project management and consultancy roles. This has been gained in a variety of organisations and environments across public, private and voluntary sectors. It also includes 3 years living and working in The Netherlands.
Latterly Beverley’s career has focused on the voluntary sector where as well as a period of working for Attend as Head of Projects she has carried out freelance roles in different settings working with vulnerable people. This includes partnership development, service improvement and frontline care work.
She is a fellow of CIPD and has carried out extensive training in coaching and mentoring which is a particular personal interest of hers.
She also believes passionately in the value and power of volunteering and has been a volunteer herself for most of her adult life. This experience has equipped her with strong organisation development, change management and relationship building skills. She also has a good understanding of how both the health and voluntary sectors work.
She currently lives in east London where she takes an interest in local community projects and enjoys her garden.
Jamie Ward-Smith (formerly Thomas) is the founder of ivo.org, a social network that connects people and organisations that want to change their worlds through volunteering and social action. ivo follows a successful pilot site called i-volunteer and launched in 2012. Prior to setting up ivo, Jamie founded and ran Red Foundation, a social enterprise that promoted volunteerism and social action through consultancy and development services, for five years until 2011.
Prior to setting up Red Jamie was deputy director for community engagement at the Home Office Active Communities Unit, the forerunner of the Office for Civil Society, where he set up the Gold Star programme and ran the Russell Commission on youth action and engagement which led to the set up of the v charity. Before this he was marketing and communications director for online advice charity YouthNet UK, where he co-funded the do-it.org.uk volunteering database and led the increase of their traffic base to over 5000,000 users a month, prior to which he ran one of London's most successful volunteer centers in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Sir William Wells’ career encompasses senior positions in public health, commercial property, insurance and small business.
Sir William Wells is the Chairman of the Department of Health’s Commercial Advisory Board, which advises ministers on the effects of policy on the private sector. In 2001 he established the NHS Appointments Commission and became its Chairman. Sir William is also a former Governor of the Royal Free Hospital, London, and Regional Chairman of the South Thames Region.
Sir William was Managing Partner and then Chairman of Chesterton chartered surveyors for 34 years, where he oversaw their transition from a private partnership to a listed company.
Sir William is Chairman of ADL, an AIM-listed care home provider and of CMG plc, a specialist in the care of adults and children with learning difficulties, and a director of Urban Village, which is developing a mixed use ‘village’ in Shoreditch to provide homes, support and training for over 300 homeless people.
Nichole started at Attend in 2005 and has had several roles over the years at Attend including Regional Development Officer, Membership Services Officer and Membership Services Manager but has more recently started work on a new project at Attend as The Life Roles Facilitator.
As part of the Haringey stroke pathway she will focus on working with stroke survivors living in Haringey. Many stroke survivors once they have been discharged from hospital and rehabilitation are often not working and can become isolated. The aim of the project is to support "Life Role" Opportunities in Haringey by identifying volunteering opportunities for Stroke clients wishing to re-engage with the Community and supporting them through the application and recruitment procedure.
Working closely with Haringey NHS and Council the project aims to build a more detailed map of services already available to survivors of Stroke in Haringey and to establish relationships with local charities, agencies and companies to support volunteering opportunities for Stroke users. Clients will also be referred to Attend ABI Programme where appropriate and to other Stroke supporting organisations.
Colin began his nursing career in 1959 as a Cadet Nurse at St Matthews’s Hospital in Stafford. He became a Registered Mental Health Nurse in 1965. After taking early retirement he became Chair of Stafford Hospital’s League of Friends. He is also a Trustee of Katharine House Hospice, a Local Authority appointed Governor of Oakridge Primary School, a Member of The Rotary Club of Stafford and was recently appointed Governor to South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust from September 2009.
He has been married to Cynthia for over 40 years with whom he has one son, Christopher who has given them two beautiful grand-daughters, Kiera and Courtney. He also has a pet Labrador called Samson.
Colin is a member of Warwickshire Cricket Club and of his local Clay Pigeon Shooting club. He enjoys going to the theatre, and dining out with friends. In his spare time, he also enjoys woodturning and listening to music, particularly Queen and Cliff Richard!
David has been the Chief Executive of Attend, formerly the National Association of Hospital and Community Friends, since January 2002. Prior to this he was a Director of an Adult and Children’s hospice in Essex.
David is passionately committed to volunteering and has held a variety of roles including a member of the Independent Monitoring Board at the HMP and YOI Chelmsford, a trustee of a Child Contact centre and Chairman of a local community group. Additionally, David has served on the Membership and Education Committee, and the Quality Taskforce at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
In 2010, David was appointed a Fellow of the Clore Social Leadership Programme, and also a Fellow of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. He was recognised for his wider contribution to volunteering in the New Years Honours list in 2010.
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