Trustees

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    Anna Hickinbotham - Trustee

    Anna was appointed as a Trustee in 2002. She left University in 2001 with a BSc in Geography and went into media sales with Hobsons, where she specialised in consumer advertising to students before moving into education recruitment and then becoming the publisher of Hobsons Guide to UK Boarding Schools. In 2008 she joined TMP Worldwide, where she is currently an Account Manager in the graduate recruitment team. As well as her work with Barrow Cadbury, she is also a Trustee of the Hickinbotham Trust.

    Anna says: I love the feeling that the Trust is continuing the work of previous generations of the Cadbury family. The commitment to the philosophy of social justice provides a living link to our ancestors and it is more pertinent than ever today to do what we can to make things better for excluded and marginalised people.

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    Anna Southall - Trustee

    Anna became a Trustee in 1974 and chaired the Trustee Board from 1996 to 2006. She worked for 40 years, largely but not exclusively in the cultural sector, initially in paintings conservation. After 17 years at Tate Gallery, she became Director of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales (1996-2002) and Chief Executive of the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (2002-2003). Anna has held a range of non-executive roles with government advisory bodies and voluntary sector organizations. These currently include: Vice Chair of the UK Board of the Big Lottery Fund; Member of the Governments Spoliation Advisory Panel; Commissioner, Legacy Trust UK; Member of the Board of the Association of Charitable Foundations.

    Anna says: Working with others to overcome the structural barriers to a more just and equal society is what excites me about being a Trustee of Barrow Cadbury.

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    Erica Cadbury - Trustee

    Erica became a Trustee in 1980. She trained as a teacher and she and her partner John McConnell and their family have lived in Sri Lanka and Thailand. In Sri Lanka Erica and John worked as the representatives of Quaker Peace and Service with various peace oriented NGOs, running workshops in peace and conflict resolution, trying to support individual peacemakers and carrying out small emergency aid projects. In 1998, having studied law as a mature student, Erica started working in Craven Citizens Advice Bureau, a small rural bureau serving the Yorkshire Dales, first as an employment rights specialist and now as its Manager. She is an active member of her Quaker Meeting and Convenor of Trustees of two Quaker property charities.

    Erica says: I see my trusteeship as service but also as something which widens my vision and my experience immensely. I feel I have been privileged to meet some extraordinary people through the Trust and am constantly humbled by the vision and energy of the people and organisations we work with.

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    Gordon Mitchell - Trustee

    Gordon joined the Trustee Board in 2009 as one of the first Trustees who are not members of the Cadbury family. Having worked extensively in the public sector, including serving as a Programme Director in the Cabinet Office and as Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council, Gordon is now Managing Director of Starburst Consulting Ltd.

    Gordon says: The Trust has done some great work to support grassroots groups who often are beyond the reach of the mainstream agencies. Helping people to develop their voice is a very powerful aspect of bringing about change in policy locally or nationally and I am excited to be offered the opportunity to help develop that potential impact. The Trust and its work needs to be well connected to the system, but is not part of it and I am excited that we can use this pivotal position to bring lasting change for some of the UK s most vulnerable people.

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    Harry Serle - Trustee

    Harry became a Trustee in 2009. He is a great-great-grandson of the Trust's founders, Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury and the son of Anna Southall. Having trained as a secondary school teacher, he now teaches English as a foreign language and is also a musician.

    Harry says: I feel very privileged to help ensure a little slice of wealth benefits many rather than few. The Cadbury founders believed in the absolute equality of everyone, irrespective of their history, their nationality, their religion and so do I.

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    Nicola Cadbury - Trustee

    Nicola was appointed as a Trustee in 1998. She has a background in international development, having worked in fundraising, communications, policy and campaigning. She currently works for ActionAid, coordinating schools' campaigns on international issues.

    Nicola says: I very much enjoy being part of a team using our grants to achieve positive social change. The process of channeling resources into areas of need, taking calculated risks, and drawing out the learning is something that I find very rewarding.

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    Ruth Cadbury - Chair

    Ruth has been a Trustee since the 1980s and took over as Chair from Anna Southall in 2006. Ruth has a professional background in community development and town planning, working in both the third sector and in local government. She has been an elected councillor in Hounslow since 1986, taking lead roles at a local and national level on the Environment and on Children and Life-Long Learning.

    Ruth says: Our great-grandparents took risks in the organisations they funded, and we are committed to continue that tradition. Their mission was to make an active difference to peoples lives and, in particular, to support people and organisations excluded from mainstream funding. We remain dedicated to that founding ethos. We look for organisations with a clear vision and strong leadership and people who have respect within their community. We also believe that in order to bring about change it is important not just to fund grass-roots organisations but to facilitate them to link with policy-makers to allow their experience to shape policy.

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    Tamsin Rupprechter - Trustee

    Tamsin was appointed as a Trustee in 2007. She lives in Austria where she started her professional career working as a project manager in the Alpbach conference centre, after taking a degree in tourism. She then worked in the customer service department of a gas engine producer before moving to head up the sales department of a printing cylinder engraver with a worldwide business reach. After nine years at work, Tamsin decided to go back to university. She is currently taking an MA in English and American Studies as well as a BA in Interpretation and Translation, while also working part-time as an accountant for a property manager.

    Tamsin says: I feel really honoured to be able to be part of the Barrow Cadbury Trust, especially being an Austrian member of the family. What excites me is, on the one hand, having the opportunity to gain more experience and knowledge of the charitable sector in the UK and on the other, actually meeting grassroots groups, seeing what they achieve and being inspired by their work.

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    Tim Compton - Trustee

    Tim became a Trustee in 2007. He began his career working in animation, producing series for young children before moving to the children's drama department at the BBC. Tim now works on drama for all ages as Development Executive for the UK's largest regional production company. His specialism is online drama, including a drama-based 2009 Drink Aware campaign in association with the Home Office.

    Tim says: What excites me most about being a Trustee of Barrow Cadbury is the opportunity to visit grassroots organizations and see firsthand the impact made by their passionate commitment and vision whether this impact is evident in their locality, the individuals they serve, or at a policy level.

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