National Lottery Charities Board North East

North East Regional Awards Committee

The Charities Board established Regional Committees in 1995 when we first began to make grants. At first they were called Regional Advisory Panels, which made recommendations to the England Committee, the decision making body, to ensure that grants given meet the policies and priorities laid down by the Board and in doing so, reflected the most urgent needs within the region.

New legislation allows the Board to delegate decision making from the England Committee to the Regional Committee, which are now called Regional Awards Committees

The Regional Awards Committee has 12 members and a Chair. Two members are recruited through a new random selection process using the electoral roll, and the rest through advertisement. Committee members act in a personal capacity and on a voluntary basis, though expenses are met. Anyone who is interested in membership should contact: National Lottery Charities Board, at 6th Floor, Baron House, 4 Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5NL, Tel: 0191 255-1100.

Victoria Andrew MBE

Originally working in the arts and teaching, Vicki lives in Teesside and has worked across a wide range of social/welfare areas, with a particular emphasis on advocacy and rights work.

Previously the Chief Executive at Cedemp, a pioneering charity, providing social/personal/employment services for citizens with a disability, she has served on many committees concerning health, disability, housing and economic development, and was awarded the M.B.E. for services to the disabled community in Cleveland.

Currently engaged in monitoring support in creative arts field.

Professor John Clarke - Chair

Professor John Clarke retired (prematurely) in September 1990 as an emeritus Professor from the University of Durham where he had been Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Sub-Warden for 6 years and Professor of Geography for 22 years.

His main academic interests have been in various aspects of population geography, especially in Africa, the Middle East and Britain and he has chaired various national and international bodies. A former Chairman of Durham Health Authority, he is also involved in many organisations in County Durham.

Susan Bevan

Sue came to the North East from Warwickshire in 1976 and, with the exception of a year in Bristol, has remained here ever since. She is currently the Rural Development Programme Officer for Northumberland which entails identifying and profiling issues relevant to the rural county and co-ordinating requests for financial support from the Rural Development Commission for social and economic projects. Previous experience includes working for Cleveland County Council advising voluntary organisations on project development and funding and implementing the County Council�s community development policies. She also spent some time working for Newcastle City Council in children�s play development and as a Priority Area Team Leader she has worked for both Tynedale Council and North Tyneside Council on recreation and leisure development. Sue has also been an assessor for applications to the National Lottery Charities Board.

Anne Galbraith

Currently a member of the Lord Chancellor�s Council on Tribunals, Chair of Tynedale CAB and a non-executive director of Tynedale Housing Company. Formerly Chair of the RVI and Associated Hospitals NHS Trust, and a former Regional Health Authority member. Former academic in the Law Department of the University of Northumbria. Currently involved as a committee member with several local charities and a trustee of two charitable trusts.

Dr Janet Gale

Senior Medical Officer, Family Planning Service, North Tees Health (NHS) Trust. Retired last year. During her time in-post was the Northern Regional Advisor in Education and Training for the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care; Project Officer for the Stockton City Challenge Young Person�s Centre; served on many committees relevant to sexual health. She has particular interest in multi-departmental provision of services for young people, particularly those in areas of deprivation. Volunteer member of the Executive Committee of Relate. Previous posts in occupational medicine.

Leo Gillen

Managing Director of Gillen Limited, a Hartlepool based family company which consists of convenience stores, public houses, sub-post offices and other retail businesses as well as property development.

Board Director - Hartlepool Enterprise Agency; Nisa/Todays, Hartlepool City Challenge and Owton Rossmere community Enterprises Limited (an industrial provident society with exempt charity status). Chairman - Economic Development, Education and Training Committee, The Owton Rossmere Partnership and the Owton Fens Police Steering Committee. Member of Hartlepool Economic Development Forum.

Gillen Limited has helped numerous local charities and voluntary organisations as well as running charity Christmas trains to London to raise funds for Hartlepool Hospice.

Dr Stephen Hilton

Steve has been a single handed GP in the west of Gateshead for the past year. Prior to that he spent two years with the Public Health Department in Northumberland Health Authority and undertook some of his medical training in County Durham. He was an undergraduate in London and trained in General Practice in North Yorkshire. Following this he worked as a District Medical Officer for two years with Volunteer Services Overseas in Papua New Guinea and three and a half years as a Clinical Epidemiologist with the Medical Research Council in the Gambia.

Tafazzul Hussain

Self-employed with several businesses in Sunderland, Tafazzul Hussain is involved in his local community. A member of the Management Committee of several local community groups, he is also a school governor and secretary to the Hendon Islamic Centre. He has a long experience of the Bangladeshi community in England, particularly in Sunderland.

Graeme Lauder

Graeme is currently Business Manager with Eaga Limited, based in Newcastle. The company administers the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme on behalf of the Department of Environment, and the scheme provides grants for the provision of energy efficiency measures to individuals living in fuel poverty that cannot afford to insulate their homes. He recently set up and has overall responsibility for a sister scheme that Eaga manages on behalf of the Scottish Executive.

He was born and has lived most of his life in South Shields, with a short break of two and a half years when he lived and worked in Chester. Graeme�s background is in the financial field having held management positions within the Health Services and Building Societies.

Alice Mortimer

Partner in High Street solicitor�s practice which has a Legal Aid franchise with a high number of family law cases. Specialist in child care Law and member of The Law Society Children Panel. Also experienced criminal law practitioner and member of the 24 hour Duty Panel and Magistrates� Court Duty Panel.

Voluntary work is mainly with Darlington Citizens Advice Bureau and has been a member of the Management Committee since the late 1980s. Also a member of the Personnel Sub-Committee and the Legal Aid Franchise sub Committee. A former member of the University of Teesside Law Department Case Validation Committee and is in involved in local church activities.

Simon Underwood

Chief Executive of Banks of the Wear, a registered Housing Association and community development agency based in Sunderland but working throughout the North. BOW specialises in regeneration projects, housing co-operatives and resident involvement initiatives. It also works with a number of minority ethnic groups. Simon�s former positions include North East Area Office for National Association of Citizens Advice Bureau and Co-ordinator of a London based Co-operative Housing Development Agency. He also worked as a Housing Aid Project worker on Tyneside. He first moved to the North East in the early 1970s.

Alan Wilson

Retired early from Midland Bank plc, in 1994 as Business Banking Manager at Cramlington Area Office, responsible for customer relationships in seven Northumberland branches. Most of his 35 years� banking experience served in the areas of Tees, Wear, Tyne and Northumberland.

Past and present voluntary sector involvement includes: Director, Enterprise Agency; Chairman, Scout Group; School Governor; Parochial Church Council, Treasurer/Member; Charity Appeal Trustee.

Mark Wilson

Currently studying for a BA Business Studies degree, he has a thorough knowledge of the North East, and in particular County Durham.

Mark has a wide range of interests in the voluntary sector, particularly in hospital radio, and is also involved in community broadcasting in deprived areas, which endeavours to help local people to develop new skills and interests.

He is also involved with fund-raising for several local and national charities.

Mark is a member of the North East Viewer Consultative Council of the Independent Television Commission, and sits on the Admissions and Exclusions Committee of a Grant Maintained School.