Getting on Board

Sarah is a Human Resources professional, a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She has a post-graduate diploma in Personnel Management from the London School of Economics ( LSE ) and a MSc in Voluntary Sector Organisation (LSE).

After working for several years in HR in the National Health Service, she has run various HR-related projects in the voluntary sector, including 'Multiple Sclerosis and Employment'.

Sarah is the former chair of the board of governors of an independent school, and has been on the boards of a variety of charities,  including Changemakers, a national charity that aims to involve young people in their communities. She is currently a trustee of a charity responsible for the redevelopment of a community hall.

Sally joined Getting on Board in 2008 to set up and run a new signposting service which helps skilled professionals find voluntary sector trustee roles.

For over ten years Sally worked for national lottery distributors including Millennium Commission, New Opportunities Fund and Big Lottery Fund. She was Head of England Regions and Deputy Head of Communications at Big Lottery Fund. Sally undertook roles which included the set up of a new communications department, national media launches and grant announcements and she project managed the development of several multi-million pound national lottery grant programmes including PE and Sport in Schools and Activities for Young people.

Sally has been a freelance consultant on a number of different projects since 2006 and has taken on a number of voluntary roles. She is Vice-Chair of the governing body of a primary school, an ambassador for the new Firstsite Newsite art gallery in Colchester, a trustee for a village hall redevelopment project, member of a new free school group and joint manager of the Sudbury under 7's rugby team.

After graduating from Oxford, George qualified as a solicitor and was a partner of City law firm, Sinclair Roche and Temperley, for 28 years, and then a partner of Stephenson Harwood for 2 years.

He has now moved into his second career, as a fruit grower, with a small commercial orchard in Suffolk.

George is company secretary of The East of England Apples and Orchards Project. He was a Voluntary Service Overseas volunteer in his Gap Year, and taught English in a school in the Himalayas.

Andy is Director of Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability, Ford Motor Company (Europe). In this role Andy is responsible for the development and implementation of Ford's European corporate citizenship and sustainability strategy.

He is also Director of the Ford Britain Trust, Ford UK's charity arm.

Most recently he has held the following positions:-
Finance Director, Ford Spain and Finance Director, Ford Japan, and Business Manager, Business Strategy, Ford of Europe, UK.

He is a member of Business in the Community's East of England Business Leadership Team and between 2001 and 2004 served as a member of a UK Government Committee looking into elements of sustainable development.

Andy graduated from Birmingham University with a Bachelors degree in Commerce and Master of Science and from Warwick University with an MBA

Karen is Chief Executive of Charity Trustee Networks, the charity dedicated to helping set up and support networks of charity trustees across the UK.

Karen's background is in law, having practised as a solicitor at Bristows in central London.

In 1994, she made the move to the voluntary sector where she has held operational and developmental posts at two youth development charities.

In 2000, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship and she spent two months in Australia and New Zealand studying leadership development in young people.

She is an Independent Member of Surrey County Council’s Standards Committee.

David has been involved in the development of leaders for most of his working life. Until his retirement at the end of 2007 he had been Chief Executive of the Windsor Leadership Trust since 1999. Set up in 1995 the Trust, an independent charity, helps those in every sector of society who are, or who have the potential to become, senior leaders to lead with integrity and with care for society as well as their own organisations.

Until January 1999, he worked for 13 years for BP and, in his last four years, he was their Global Head of Learning and Development. His prime responsibility was to ensure that BP's learning and development processes were adequate to provide BP's leaders with both the skills and motivation to deliver present performance demands and future business strategy.

He was a mid-career recruit into BP. Before joining them he worked for the Institute of Manpower (now Employment) Studies and the National Coal Board.

David has served on the Board of the European Foundation for Management Development (efmd) and on the Council of the Manpower Society. He now contributes his experience to a number of organisations locally in Sussex.

Peter works at Ofcom.

In the public sector, he has worked at the heart of Government. He has worked with a range of organisations across Whitehall, including the Cabinet Office, the now Ministry of Justice and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. He has performed a delivery role within the NHS, with a particular focus on Public Health.

He has had a career spanning Unilever, founding an innovative web business and working as an independent consultant.

Mark has worked in Banking for over 25 years, of which the first 13 were at Coutts, and the next 12 at C Hoare & Co, the UK's last independent Private Bank. In August 2008 he joined Barclays Wealth as Head of Banking. He has a wide contact network, a sound financial knowledge and is used to thinking outside of the box.

Mark has had a long interest in philanthropy, setting up Hoare’s Give As You Earn (GAYE) and Time for Time schemes. Until recently, he was also Treasurer of the Knights bridge Business Group and Belgravia Business Association; the latter of which runs the Motcombe Street Party raising over £40,000 annually for charity.

John Collier is a Director of Clive & Stokes International, a leading executive search firm based in central London where he specialises in finding finance directors and other board members.

He is a chartered accountant and was a partner with Price Waterhouse for 11 years.  Subsequently he spent four years as Chief Executive of The Newcastle Initiative which focused on the regeneration of Newcastle upon Tyne and then nearly five years as Secretary General of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales before he became an executive search consultant.

John has served on many different types of boards in the private, public and charitable sectors including the performing arts, further education, urban regeneration, small business promotion and the regulation of the accountancy profession. He is currently the Treasurer of the Wordsworth Trust and a Council member of the ICAEW.

Lansons Communications (www.lansons.com) - the third largest UK independently-owned PR & PA consultancy - was co-founded in 1989 by Chairman Clare Parsons. Lansons is one of the FT 50 Best Workplaces (2008, 2007, 2006), and 2008 Agency of the Year (by FSF).

A Trustee of Getting on Board and HighTide, Clare is also on the RSC London Development Committee