Board members' biographies

Below is a list of Board members, appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Board members sit on the country committees that award grants to UK-wide, England-wide, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland charities and voluntary groups. (In the England regions awards are made by Regional Awards Committees. For a list of RAC members please look under the appropriate regional page.)

Click above to see photograph		Diana Brittan CBE - Chair of the Board
		May 1999 Chair, Rathbone CI, a non-governmental organisation which specialises in training disadvantaged young people and unemployed adults; Trustee and former Chair of the Runnymede Trust; member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct, 1998-99; Trustee, Open University Foundation; member, Equal Opportunities Commission, 1989-94, Deputy Chair 1994-6; Deputy Chair, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, 1990-97; JP, City of London; Distinguished Associate, Darwin College, Cambridge.

Click above to see photograph		Dame Valerie Strachan - Deputy Chair
		Chairman, HM Customs and Excise from 1993-2000. She previously served in the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, the Home Office and the Department of Economic Affairs. She is currently Assessor to the Review of the Tribunal System in England and Wales.

Click above to see photograph		Tessa Baring CBE - Member of the UK Committee
		Chair of the Family Policy Studies Centre;Trustee of the Baring Foundation, St Michael’s Fellowship and Intermediate Technology Group; Vice-President (former Chair) Barnardo’s. Member of the Council for Charitable Support and NCVO’s Presidents Advisory Council. Chair of Association of Charitable Foundation (1994-97). Charity Commissioner (1995-98). Chair of Mental Health Foundation Inquiry into the Mental Health of children and young people (1997-99).

Click above to see photograph		Rhiannon Bevan - Member of the Wales Committee
		Chair of the Keep Wales Tidy Campaign Board and President of the Wales Association of Community and Town Councils. In 1998, she retired as head of the Wales office of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. Mrs Bevan is a former Chair of the Welsh Consumers Council, and a former member of Broadcasting Standards Council, the Broadcasting Standards Commission and the Wales Tourist Board.

Click above to see photograph		Steven Burkeman - Member of the Board’s England Committee
		Trust Secretary The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust; former member of the National Lottery Charities Board’s Yorkshire and Humber Regional Advisory Panel; Honorary Research Fellow, York University; Trustee, FunderFinder; Board member, Interfund; member, City of York Council’s Fostering/Sharing Care panel; School Governor; Member, Advisory Council, Public Concern At Work; Fellow of the RSA.

Click above to see photograph		Jeff Carroll - Member of the Board’s Wales and UK Committees
		Retired from the Police Service as Superintendant in charge of community affairs; Chairman, Board for Social Responsibility, Diocese of Llandaff; member, Race Equality First; Committee member, South Wales Rugby Football Club; Rector’s sub-warden, parish of Neath with Llanwit; former fundraising committee member for the Sir Geraint Evans Heart Research Appeal.

Click above to see photograph		Anne Clark - Member of the Board’s Scotland Committee and UK Committee
		Executive Officer,Islay and Jura Council of Voluntary Service; Member of Board of Governers, University of Highlands and Islands; Member, Argyll and Bute Rural Partnership; Director and Company Secretary, Islay Development Company.

Click above to see photograph		Douglas Graham - Member of the Scotland Committee
		Douglas Graham is a solicitor who lives and works in Inverness. He is currently a co-opted NLCB Board member, and has held various positions within a number of public and non-public bodies. He was a founding Director, and Chairman (1994-1998), of the Highland Hospice. Mr Graham was educated at Edinburgh University.

Click above to see photograph		Kay Hampton - Chair of the Board’s Scotland Committee
		Sociologist and researcher; Research Director, Scottish Ethnic Minorities Research Unit, Glasgow Caledonian University; Specialist Visiting Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University; member of the executive committee, Apna Ghar Black Led Housing Association; Positive Action in Housing; member of the advisory committee, Scottish Poverty Information Unit; member of the advisory committee, SCVO Race Equality Committee; Convenor, Saheliya, Mental Health Project.

Click above to see photograph		Professor Jimmy Kearney - Member of the Northern Ireland Committee
		Retired from the Northern Ireland Civil Service in September 1999 after 36 years’ public service (15 of which was in the Senior Civil Service). He was head of the Voluntary Activity Unit, and has held key liaison roles with the Home Office. Professor Kearney, who was educated at the Queen’s University, Belfast, now holds a Visiting Professorship in the Centre for Voluntary Action Studies at the University of Ulster.

Click above to see photograph		Sheila Jane Malley - Member of the Northern Ireland Committee
		National Co-ordinator for BBC Children in Need in Northern Ireland. Prior to being appointed as a full Board member for Northern Ireland she was a member of the National Lottery Charities Board's Northern Ireland Committee. Sheila Jane is a Board member of Community Evaluation Northern Ireland (CENI), a member of the Core Funding Advisory Group for the Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust (NIVT) and a member of the Northern Ireland working party on the Active Communities Initiative. She was a member of the Youth Council for Northern Ireland from 1996 - 2000 and a member of Comic Relief UK Grants Committee from 1994 - 1999.

Click above to see photograph		Maggie Lee - Member of the England Committee
		Founder of Lime Hill Search, an executive search and consulting company in the media and communications industries; formerly Director of Resources at Pearson Television, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the international media group, Pearson plc, from 1997-2000. Ms Lee started work as a line manager in operations with Travellers Fare Ltd (British Railways Board) and went on to senior human resources appointments with British Aerospace and ICL Sorbus. She is also a trustee of the Runnymede Trust and a non executive director of the Financial Ombudsman Scheme.

Click above to see photograph		Barbara Lowndes MBE - Member of the Board’s England Committee
		Justice of the Peace; Vice Chair, Tame Valley Regeneration; Board member, Hattersley Development Trust; Member of the North West Constitutional Convention; Honorary Secretary, Tameside Association of Community Organisations; Honorary Treasurer, Women in Supported Housing; Member, International Federation of Settlements and Neighbourhood Centres; Member, Tameside Race Equality Council; Former Vice Chair of the Board of Community Matters; Former Chair of Voluntary Action Tameside.

Click above to see photograph		Richard Martineau - Chair of the Board’s England Committee and member of the UK Committee
		Vice Chair of the Council of the Institute of Education (University of London); Vice Chair Emeritus and Member of the Council of the RSA. Director of OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations Board). Farms in Suffolk.

Click above to see photograph		Noel Stewart - Chair of the Board’s Northern Ireland
		Committee Chartered accountant; former President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland; former Chairman of British Red Cross in Northern Ireland; retired Regional Partner in Charge for Coopers and Lybrand (Northern Ireland); Director of Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company Limited; Vice-Chairman, Progressive Building Society; Chair of Craigavon Hospital Trust; former Honorary Treasurer of Queen’s University, Belfast.

Click above to see photograph		Elisabeth Watkins - Chairman of the Board’s Wales Committee
		Barrister who has practised in Britain and Bermuda; Immigration Adjudicator; Chairs the NHS Complaints Independent Review Panel in Wales; has worked for voluntary organisations in Pakistan, Canada and Swaziland; former Chairman of the International Committee of the British Columbia Red Cross in Vancouver; founding Chairman of the Swaziland Hospice at Home.

Click above to see photograph		Ben Whitaker CBE - Member of the UK Committee
		Director of the Gulbenkian Foundation (UK) from 1989-1999. Executive Director of the Minority Rights Group, 1971-88; he was also the United Kingdom’s expert member on the United Nations Human Rights sub-Commission. Mr Whitaker was the Member of Parliament for Hampstead from 1966-1970. He is the author of several books, including Oxfam and The Foundations, a critique of international grant-giving trusts.