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Vaughan Lindsay (Chair)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Vaughan has decades of leadership experience in the charity sector, impact investing and with purpose driven businesses. This includes his roles as Chair of New Philanthropy Capital, a leading think tank for the sector; as CEO of Dartington Hall Trust, one of the largest Social Enterprises in the UK focused on stimulating new initiatives in arts, sustainability and social justice; and as co-founder of Zamo Capital, which supports impact funds in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Nicola Pollock \u2013 Senior Independent Director<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Nicola has had a long career in grant-making and charitable and voluntary sector, most recently with independent funder John Ellerman Foundation where she developed the strategic direction of the Foundation and advised on governance and grant making. She has a background in providing, developing and supporting advice services and policies at national, regional and local level, before joining the newly formed National Lottery Charities Board, when she was based in the North East of England.<\/p>\n

Nicola has previously also worked for Esm\u00e9e Fairbairn Foundation. Her current roles are as Chair of the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action, London Football Journeys and SASC Trust, and is a trustee of Local Trust.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Meera Craston<\/h3>\n
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Meera Craston is an evaluation, social impact and policy design specialist with over 20 years of experience in public policy and not-for-profit consulting. She is a strong advocate of the evaluation profession and evidence-based decision making, with a passion for empowering individuals, teams, and organisations to thrive, make an impact, and create positive change.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Meera is a Co-Founder of Next Brave Move – a consultancy on a mission to ‘reimagine work-life for good’ helping individuals and organisations to avoid exhaustion and burnout by unlocking ‘healthy high performance’. Her portfolio of work also includes Executive Coaching, Advisory work in the Evaluation and Consulting space and serving as a Trustee at New Philanthropy Capital.

Prior to pursuing a portfolio career, Meera was a Senior Director at Ipsos UK where she co-led their Policy & Evaluation Unit and she served as the Executive Director of the UK Evaluation Society (UKES). Meera was also previously a Board Member of UKES and the Miscarriage Association.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Phil Chamberlain (NLCF Appointee)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Phil joined the National Lottery Community Fund in June 2022, as England Director (Strategy, Partnerships & Engagement) – jointly overseeing the largest portfolio of funding in England, ensuring the new funding strategy is best informed by partnerships and engagement with key stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Before joining the fund Phil was Executive Director for External Engagement at City Lit – the largest adult education college \u2013 and before that held a number of senior leadership positions at the Youth Sport Trust,\u00a0Legacy Trust UK<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Big Lottery Fund<\/a><\/span>, as well as 10 years within the Civil Service, working on a range of high profile policy issues and international campaigns, as well as directly within a Minister\u2019s private office.<\/p>\n

Phil\u2019s career to date has led to extensive experience in strategy development, corporate communications, political engagement, policy and programme development, funding distribution, strategic leadership and stakeholder relations.<\/p>\n

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Jo Fox\u00a0<\/span>(Government Appointee)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Jo Fox is a Senior Commercial Specialist in the Infrastructure & Projects Authority and Head of Public Private Partnerships. She led the Government\u2019s review of the Private Finance Initiative (2011-12) and has a strong track record in policy development and leadership and the commercial and financial structuring of public private partnerships and infrastructure projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jo set up HM Treasury\u2019s PPP equity investment unit and is a director of Treasury\u2019s investment companies, and the Government-appointed director to a number of project companies delivering infrastructure projects. Jo joined the Civil Service from KPMG where she worked in the Consulting and Corporate Finance practices before joining HM Treasury\u2019s Corporate & Private Finance team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Helen England<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Helen is the CEO of the social care charity Brandon Trust.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Helen has worked in health and social care for more than 30 years. She started her career working clinically in paediatric services and in child and adolescent mental health and went on to serve on NHS Boards for more than a decade.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

More recently she has worked as a CEO in the independent and voluntary sectors and has served on Charity Boards as a trustee and Chair. She has a particular professional interest in organisational and system development and in governance.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kevin Davis<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Based in the Black Country, Kevin Davis is a serial social entrepreneur, in the fields of education, employment, and community empowerment. Kevin has been the Group CEO of the Vine Trust since 2010, a development trust, which occupies the space where the business, public, community and voluntary sectors meet.<\/span><\/p>\n

With 10,000 students in the schools of the Mercian Multi Academy Trust he co-founded, social investment has been a material part of his capital\/ revenue, place-based initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside of the Vine Trust, Kevin has responsibility for strategy, vision and advocacy in a number of non-exec \/ trustee roles in the arenas of housing, health, faith and community empowerment. He also provides the link between the public, private and civil society, in several organisations, including Business in the Community, and the NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin also chairs the regional newspaper based, Ladder apprenticeships campaigns, which following its London launch in 2012, has generated nearly 10,000 apprenticeships.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin is on the Quadrennial Review Team for The Oversight Trust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrew Rose<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Andrew\u00a0<\/span>Rose currently acts in non-executive, senior adviser and trustee roles across various sectors including infrastructure, housing and social impact investing. In his executive career he was a multiple CEO of companies in both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

His CEO roles included the Homes & Communities Agency, the country\u2019s housing, land and regeneration agency, now known as Homes England. He has also been Chief Executive of Infrastructure UK (IUK) in HM Treasury. IUK produced the country\u2019s first National Infrastructure Plan. Most recently he was the inaugural Chief Executive of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA), a membership body representing investors in global infrastructure and leading advisers to the sector.<\/p>\n

Andrew\u2019s other private sector roles have included Managing Director, Investment Banking, CIBC World Markets, where he established and led the Canadian bank\u2019s European infrastructure investment banking practice, and where he worked for 17 years in both the UK and USA.<\/p>\n

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Vicki Thornton<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Vicki Thornton is Chief Financial Officer at Age UK. Vicki brings expertise in transformation and change management; strategic financial planning; and risk management. Her professional experience also includes spells at the Royal Mencap Society; Scope; ActionAid International; and the Chartered Insurnce Institute; as well as interim and freelance roles in social enterprise and social housing sectors. She has a particular passion for good stewardship of funds in charities and enabling the flow of data to support outcome and impact reporting.<\/p>\n

Vicki has experience as a founder-trustee of two small charities and is a fellow of the ACCA, with over 20 years\u2019 experience in private practice, the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors.<\/p>\n

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David Lindsell<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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David is a chartered accountant and has been a non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of four listed companies since 2007, prior to which he was a Partner at Ernst & Young where he served as the lead audit Partner for numerous FTSE 100 companies and was a member of the firm\u2019s governing body for 15 years. He has served as a trustee of the British Museum and of Cancer Research UK, Deputy Chair of Governors at the University of the Arts London and Deputy Chair of the Financial Reporting Review Panel. He is currently a trustee of Camden Music Trust.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oversighttrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oversighttrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oversighttrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oversighttrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oversighttrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oversighttrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oversighttrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oversighttrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}