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  David

  Chairman

  'The Chair(man)'

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  Sandra

  Chief Executive

  'Leader of the pack'

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  Nadra

  Director of Development

  'Builds a buzz, drives it forward'

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  Amy

  Employment Programme Manager

  'Encouraging employment'

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  Meet
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  Team

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  James

  Commercial Director

  'Business brain'

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  Mary

  Head of Estates and Facilities

  'Building's Boss'

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  Joanne

  Executive Assistant to the CEO

  'Keeps it ticking along'

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  Sav

  Music Director

  'Makes beautiful music happen'

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  Julia

  Employment Support Officer

  'Partnering our participants'

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  Sarah Rose

  Events Executive

  'Connecting people'

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  Alice

  Development Executive

  'Helping to tell the story'

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  Holly Budgett

  Membership Secretary

  'Member Nerve Centre'

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  David

  Caretaker

  'Takes care of us'

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  Katie

  Art Curator

  'It's all about the art'

Governance

We are governed by a Board of Trustees that meets formally four times a year. Our trustees are responsible for control and to guarantee that:

• — The charity is efficient, effective and achieving the best possible impact
• — The assets are safeguarded
• — Proper records are kept and public information is reliable
• — The charity complies with relevant laws and regulations

A wholly owned trading subsidiary of the charity (Events Ltd.) operates our not-for-profit members’ club. Registered Charity Number 207242.
Audited Account 2011/12
Audited Account 2010/11

Board members

• David Evans
  Chairman

  As a founding partner of the Berkeley Partnership, he has helped to shape and lead the redevelopment by Marks & Spencer of their Foods business; the creation of the National Lottery Charities Board (forerunner of the Big Lottery Fund), at the time the largest grant-making body in the world; the comprehensive transformation of Liffe, one of the City of London's principal financial exchanges, from open-outcry to screen-based trading; and the creation by BP of their trading division.

• Warren Colquitt
  Treasurer

  Warren qualified as a chartered accountant at KPMG. He spent 9 years in the management consultancy practice responsible for a range of corporate and equity strategic and transactional assignments across a variety of business sectors including retail, insurance and manufacturing. He has thereafter undertaken a number of finance director positions in both large and smaller entrepreneurial businesses including the trade sale of a coffee business. Warren is also currently finance director for a number of other businesses in the restaurant and fitness sectors. Prior to his role at Covent Garden Restaurant group he worked as the Finance Director for Benugo.

• Juliet Armstrong
  Trustee

  Juliet Armstrong has over twenty years experience as a management consultant covering retail, consumer goods, financial services and health, primarily in strategy, project/programme initiation and management. Her clients are board and executive level professionals. Juliet joined The Berkeley Partnership in January 1995 and is a partner in the firm.

• Nigel Wright
  Trustee

  Nigel has over 40 years experience in retail financial services and is Owner/Director of an established interim management company specialising in delivering transformational change. His career began in building society's; thereafter he undertook various senior roles in banking culminating in running the company behind the UK Cash Machine Network (LINK). He has served as director of Woolwich Pension Fund Trust, Funds Transfer Ltd and was Deputy Chairman of LINK for 4 years helping lead the creation of the UK national ATM network. Nigel is also an active ambassador for the Pennies Foundation having been one of the original team that created “Pennies – the electronic charity box” a pioneering charity that has already raised over £3.5million for good causes.

• Kevin Arnold
  Trustee

  Equity Partner from Gardiner and Theobald. Kevin has worked on commercial office development, retail and residential projects since 1988 for various business park developments, city centre major projects and urban regeneration campuses for multi-national corporations and private clients both in the UK and Europe. He is a past Board Member of the British Council of Offices and a board director of the charity, The Chartered Surveyors Training Trust.

• Frances Mapstone
  Trustee

  Whilst at Westminster City Council, as Director of Housing, Frances led on all aspects of housing needs, supply and community regeneration. Whilst at the GLA (Greater London Authority) as Head of Social Inclusion and Health, she led on the development and implementation of Mayoral strategies to tackle poverty, worklessness and health inequalities, and to promote refugee integration. From 2008 till 2010, she led the charity Off the Streets and into Work and recently led on the development and implementation of a pan-London gang exit programme, Safe and Secure.

• Christine Hancock
  Trustee

  Christine Hancock is director of C3 Collaborating for Health, a global charity working with diverse stakeholders to focus on the 3 risk factors. She is an experienced nurse and health service manager, was General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing and then President of the International Council of Nurses.

Our Trustees

• Patron
  HRH Princess Alexandra
  The Honourable Lady Ogilvy

• Visitor
  The Bishop of London

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• Rev. Adam Scott
  Member

  OBE, TD, MA, MBA, PhD, DipRS, CEng, FIET, FHEA, FRSA, Barrister The Revd Dr Adam Scott OBE TD has family roots in Soho going back to the efforts by his great great grandfather, Dr Henry Monro, who gifted the house to charity. Adam works locally in Bloomsbury Square training judges in competition and communications law from his background as a barrister, chartered electrical engineer, micro-economist, many years in telecommunications and latterly as a judge. He has been involved with charities all his adult life, a licensed Anglican parochial minister since 1970 and, in Soho, looks after the Chapel of St Barnabas.

• David Monro
  Ongoing as Family Member

  David is also a descendant of Dr Henry Monro, David is senior partner at Monro Fisher Wasbrough solicitors. In 1999 David - following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather before him -became a Senior Partner of Monro Pennefather & Co. He then merged the firm of Monro Fisher Wasbrough. David retired as a partner and became a consultant to Monro Wright & Wasbrough LLP in 2012.