The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation Organisation

Staff
Chief Executive: Jane Darlington
Grants Manager: Marion Branch
Grants Officer: Charlotte Burton
Office and Grants Administrator: Florence Butler

Vice Presidents:

Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey
Lady De Ramsey

Our board of trustees is composed of:

Peter Gutteridge (Chair)

Peter has been a solicitor for over 40 years recently retiring as Senior Partner of Hewitsons. He specialised in all the legal aspects of property development with particular expertise in joint venture agreements, options, overage payments, conditional contracts and consortium agreements; acting either for the developer or the landowner. He has worked in both Cambridge and Peterborough and was a founder director of the Greater Peterborough Partnership. He was also a director of Business Link and the old Training and Enterprise Council and is a Past President of the Chamber of Commerce. Peter is a keen sportsman having represented the County at both Cricket and Hockey.

Nigel Atkinson

Nigel has now retired, having been a Board member at Cambridge University Press. His responsibilities at the Press included Sales, Marketing and Customer, Corporate, Public, University and Community Relations.

Richard Barnwell DL

Richard lives in Wisbech with his wife Beverly. He has been Town, District and County Councillor and Mayor of Wisbech 2000/2001. Richard has been Chairman of the Fens Youth Trust, Wisbech Society and Preservation Trust, Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Wisbech Tourism Group, Wisbech and Fenland Museum Friends, Trustee of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum, The Wisbech Regeneration Partnership, East of England Agricultural Society, The Victoria County History Trust and other charitable bodies. His business interests are Messrs Clifford Cross Auctions - Wisbech, and farms in Northamptonshire. Richard's hobbies include shooting, fishing and garden restoration.

John Bridge OBE

Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce in January 2004, John was Managing Director of C W Bridge (Holdings) Ltd for 20 years. During this period in the logistics and distribution industry John was also a Director of the Road Haulage Association Ltd including an extended three-year term as National Chairman. He is currently Chairman of the Greater Peterborough Partnership and East of England Chambers of Commerce, a Director of Cambridgeshire Horizons Ltd and the Greater Cambridge Partnership; a Member of Peterborough Regional Economic Partnership, East of England Business Group, and EERA Regional Planning Panel; a Trustee of the Cambridgeshire Police Shrievalty Trust, and the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation; a Governor of Peterborough College of Adult Education, and Vice Chairman of Governors of Kimbolton School.

Allyson Broadhurst

Allyson is CEO of Charis Grants in Peterborough, managing charitable Trust funds for utility companies. In May 2007 Allyson was elected a District Councillor for East Cambs District Council and is currently Chair of the Community Services Committee. She lives in Ely where she served as Mayor of the City of Ely Council in 1999-2000. Allyson has spent most of her commercial career in the field of healthcare marketing and communications, and for the last 8 years has also served in non executive roles including Lifespan NHS Trust, Chair of East Cambs and Fenland PCT and until 2007 Chair of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn. Allyson has been a Trustee since its inception in 2004.

Anthony Clay FRPS FInstF (Cert)

Anthony has been working in charity fundraising management for over 30 years. After an early career as a wildlife filmmaker, followed by 10 years as Fundraising Director for the RSPB, he has been a director of several professional fundraising consultancy companies, working with a wide range of charities in the UK. He has served as Hon Treasurer and Chairman of the Institute of Fundraising and was a member of the Executive Committee for many years, working on several of the Institute’s Codes of Fundraising Practice. As a fundraising consultant he has advised the Essex, Kent and Cambridgeshire Community Foundations, as well as the Community Foundation Network. He is a trustee of two parish welfare charities in South Cambridgeshire and has lived in the county for over 40 years.

Bill Dastur

Bill is currently Group Financial Director of Marshall of Cambridge (Holdings) Limited – a local family company employing around 3,800 people with varied business interests including Aerospace and Motor Retail. He was formerly the Managing Partner of Ernst & Young, Chartered Accountants in East Anglia. He is Treasurer of one local charity and Trustee for three others as well as chairing the Ely Cathedral Finance and Investment Committee.

Valerie Holt

Valerie works as a facilitator, interim manager and mentor with a number of technical
companies involved with the Internet. Since 2000 she has been employed on an
interim basis by both BT and Virtuebroadcasting, a streaming company. She is
an advisor to Reciva, an Internet Radio company, Shopfitter Ltd a free shopfront,
TextOre, an advanced search engine company and Sharedband Ltd, a Broadband
technology. Prevously positions include VP PSI Inc., VP PSINet Europe and Managing Director of PSINet UK and was a non-executive director of UKBroadband Ltd.

Mick Leggett

Mick is CEO of Peterborough based housing association, Cross Keys Homes which owns some 10,000 rented homes across the city. He moved to Peterborough in 2002 and started the new housing association in 2005. The organisation aims to improve people’s lives through motivation, inspiration and giving hope. Although he started working life as a travel agent his career in housing now spans 35 years and he has worked in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, London and now Cambridgeshire.

Mick is also involved locally as vice chair of the Greater Peterborough Partnership and chair of the private sector led Peterborough Growth Partnership. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Anne Ridgeon

Anne is Chairman and fourth generation family member of one of the biggest privately-owned builders’ merchants in the country.  Leaving Durham University in 1988 Anne joined Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising as an Account Director, primarily focussing on international accounts at their new Budapest office. She left to complete an MBA and became a Chartered Fellow of Marketing and then joined the family business for three years before returning to London  to develop a new Emmaus homeless community in Lambeth as well as working part-time for Saatchi’s Cause-Related Marketing initiative. In 1999, Anne returned to Cambridge to resume working for the family company, and took over as Chairman from her father in 2004.

Jerry Turner

Jerry originally trained as a mechanical engineer, and has worked in a wide variety of industry sectors. Since 1991 Jerry has held the post of CEO of Team Consulting, a product development organisation which works globally for companies in the life science industries and has particular expertise in medical and drug delivery device development. Jerry is also a non-executive director of Health Enterprise East which is the Innovation Hub for Healthcare in the East of England and as such, supports public and private sector healthcare providers.

Sam Weller

Sam was introduced to CCF when he was Director of the Kodak European Research Laboratories in Cambridge and sought the support of Kodak to set up a Fund with CCF, which was used to make grants to a number of local groups.  When Sam retired, he and his wife decided to remain in Cambridge and he has utilised his past experience to help the local business and charitable communities.  He kept in touch with CCF particularly and was invited by the board to join CCF and to take an active role in developing the grant making strategy of the Foundation.

The operations are run by Jane Darlington, CEO of the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation.