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Our trustees
| We are governed by a board of trustees, which consists of nine elected trustees and up to eight co-opted trustees. Each Territory elects two trustees, except for the South Eastern Territory which elects three trustees, one of whom must come from the London Area.
Our co-opted trustees come from various backgrounds such as business, the diplomatic service and the health sector, to lend their skills to the board.
Elected trustees
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| Beryl has been a member of the Red Cross since 1965, as both employee and volunteer. Between 1954 and 1989 she worked in General Hospitals in nursing and management. Having held the posts of branch nursing officer and training officer within the British Red Cross, she was director of Lincolnshire Branch from 1991 to1998, and of Derbyshire Branch from 1998 to 1999. | | |  | |
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A trustee since 2004, Beryl is currently a member of the care homes sub-group while her particular interests also include our disaster schemes. She is due to retire from the Board in 2009. | |
| Stan joined the Red Cross as a first aider in 1964 while working in the NHS as an internal auditor. He joined the staff of the Red Cross as regional liaison officer, acting as the link between national headquarters and the Northern Branches. He went on to become regional director and then UK director for the North. When he retired from that post in 2003 he was appointed volunteer representation and governance adviser to help steer through the changes in the constitution. | | |  | |
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He retired in October 2006 and was elected as one of the two trustees for Northern Territory. Stan is the first Red Cross member to have been a volunteer, a member of the senior management team and then a trustee. | |
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| Vicky Peterkin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and has worked in both the public and voluntary sector. Much of her work has been with homeless people and vulnerable clients. She has been on the management committee of a number of housing associations and a governor of two schools.
She originally volunteered for the Red Cross in 1973. | | |  | |
| She joined the Tayside Branch Council in 2001 and was elected chair of the first Tayside Volunteers Council in 2003. She is both a fundraiser and a retail volunteer. Since 2004, she has worked in her local Red Cross shop in Kirriemuir, Angus. She became a trustee in 2007. | |
| Stella joined the Red Cross in 1998 and is currently the volunteer council chair for Northern Ireland. In her local area she has delivered meals on wheels across the barricades for more than 40 years and held a number of posts ranging from welfare advisor, deputy president, Branch president and council member. She has some experience of our care in the home services. Stella is currently a non-executive director with the Western Health and Social Care Trust. | | |  | |
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| Following an earlier career in the Foreign Office including a number of overseas postings, Angela became a school governor and later a teacher of English as a foreign language, working in that capacity with Bosnian refugees and a wide range of international students.
She joined the Red Cross in 2003 as president for Surrey. She has been a successful local fundraiser and organiser of high profile events and first-aid training events. | | |  | |
| She has been accepted on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office psycho-social support team. Angela has a keen interest in our refugee services and work with young people. | |
| Chris is a career civil servant who has worked in the Home Office since 1968. Most recently he has been involved in developing the UK’s migrant integration policies where initiatives have included the introduction of legislation requiring new citizens to have language skills and knowledge of life in the UK, and developing specialised language and citizenship courses. | | |  | |
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Chris has been a member of the British Red Cross since 1975, focusing on emergency response and training. He has helped at a number of major incidents, including the London bombings of 7 July 2005. Between 1997 and 2003 Chris was an active member of the London Branch Council, deputising for the London Branch president at a number of engagements. | |
| Evelyn has been a member of the British Red Cross since 1976 as both an employee and volunteer attached to Buckinghamshire Branch. Her particular interests as a trustee include the project to clarify how the British Red Cross understands and applies the idea of vulnerability in its work. | | |  | |
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Evelyn was appointed to the board of the Royal Star & Garter Home, as the Red Cross Governor, in December 2005, and to be the chairman of the National Assembly Steering Group in April 2006. She is also a member of the Awards Panel.
As an elected trustee, Evelyn provides support to the Thames Valley and East Anglia Areas, in particular, and other Areas in South Eastern Territory when needed. Evelyn' s second term of office expires at the end of 2009. | |
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| Kay joined the British Red Cross as a first aid cadet when she was 11, and later became section leader. School examinations and medical school, followed by marriage, family and a career as a GP and in public health, took precedence for some years but Kay began delivering first aid lectures in 1979, later becoming Branch Medical Officer (representative on Council (1994-7), Branch Vice-Chairman and a member of the Volunteers Council in South Wales until 2007. | | |  | |
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Kay spent a year in the South Caucasus as regional health coordinator for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, followed by work for the Red Cross in Serbia-Montenegro, for Merlin in Sierra Leone, Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia/Abkhazia/South Ossetia, and for Dolen Cymru in Lesotho. | |
| Sue trained in ballet, then continued to Farnham School of Art and became a sculptor. Having married and had two daughters, she then spent the next years working with exhibitions, costume and graphic design and various marketing projects.
As a councillor for the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Sue was chair of the main grant-giving committee. | | |  | |
She joined the local Red Cross in 1998 on moving to Milborne Port, where she volunteered as a centre organiser. She has since taken on various roles culminating in her election to the board of trustees in 2007.
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| Retired BAA executive, Russell Walls was appointed treasurer of the British Red Cross in July 2007 and is set to serve an initial three-year term. His position means he will also chair the finance committee, the investment advisory panel and the internal audit advisory panel.
Russell worked for Coats Patons, mainly overseas, for more than 20 years from 1966. | | |  | |
| He then moved to London in 1987 as personal assistant to the (now) Coats Viyella group chief executive, and became group finance director in 1990.
Since retiring, Russell has held a number of non-executive director roles with corporations such as the Stage Coach Group and Signet Group. | |
| Terrence has worked in the communications business for some 30 years with positions including director of Group Corporate Communications, Lloyds TSB Group plc and currently, for the Food Standards Agency.
He has also been involved with the Samaritans for more than 25 years. | | |  | |
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He is a member of the British Red Cross ethical review panel and has been involved in the development of our new communications strategy and in the vulnerability project. He is due to retire from the board in 2009 so that he can do some more volunteering. | |
| David has served in the diplomatic service for more than 30 years. He is a former HM Ambassador to Vietnam, Thailand and Laos; he retired from the diplomatic service in October 2007. David's operational experience includes development and poverty reduction (working with DfID, NGOs and international development agencies in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand); disaster management (he led an embassy team for immediate response to the December 2004 Asian tsunami in Thailand, working closely with British Red Cross); and disaster recovery (working with Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum and British charities). | | |  | |
| Helen is currently director of Service Transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement following various posts across the public sector.As a trustee she has assisted with the development of the UK service strategy (2002-2004) and has been particularly involved in developing the British Red Cross home from hospital scheme. Helen is due to retire from the board in 2009. | | |  | |
| Graham is currently the special adviser to the president of the African Development Bank. He spent most of his career in London and overseas with the Department for International Development (DfID), most recently as Director for Africa 2000-4 and then covering the UK Presidency of the G8 up to Gleneagles, Commission for Africa and the Millennium Summit. | | |  | |
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