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Rivertime Boat Trust - Honorary Advisers
Developing and managing a charity is a complex and responsible activity and it is recognised that a great deal of professional help has to be available in order for Rivertime Boat Trust to achieve its objectives.
Financial Control
Nigel Cockburn FCA
Nigel was a partner with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1973 and practised as an auditor and latterly as a tax partner, specialising in VAT. Since his retirement in 2001 Nigel was the Treasurer of the River Thames Society for 5 years. He is also the Chairman of the Maidenhead Civic Society's Planning Committee and for many years has had a boat on the Thames.
Legal Requirements
Richard Buckeridge
Richard is a Partner in Heath & Buckeridge, Solicitors in Maidenhead. After Durham University he qualified and practiced in Shrewsbury and on moving to Maidenhead set up Heath & Buckeridge.
He has broad experience in acting for business and private clients. He is a former President of the Maidenhead Chamber of Commerce and has been involved in a large number of charity events. He is a keen oarsman and thinks nothing of rowing from Lechlade to Maidenhead!
Corporate Governance:
Belinda Rose FCISA
Belinda qualified as a Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in 1988 and was elected a Fellow of the Institute in 2005. She has worked with a number of companies including S.G. Warburg Group, Tetley Group, Vickers plc, Nycomed Amersham plc, Coats plc and Hilton Group plc and has both main market and AIM listing experience. Belinda joined Heritage Underwriting Agency plc in February 2006 and was elected Company Secretary in March 2006.
Richard Sadleir
Richard spent his career in the City of London and was for 20 years an executive director of Schroders, one of Britain's leading merchant banks. After working in a number of specialist areas of finance he established a new regulation and compliance function and was for some 15 years head of this for the Schroder Group worldwide. He is a trustee of the Runnymede Mental Health Association and was until recently treasurer of the Eton Dorney Centre, a children's charity.
Charity Management:
Niz Smith, Director of Children's Services, KidsOut
Niz has worked in the charitable sector for 17 years starting as a volunteer for charities in Oxford. This led to outreach work for Dialability, from which she derived her interest in disability issues. Since 1998 she has worked for charities involved with children and young people. She currently heads up the delivery arm of KidsOut who reach 50,000 children and young people each year.
Linda Laurance
Linda specialises in the provision of guidance on governance and on conflict management as a consultant, trainer and facilitator (NCVO approved). She is a CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) accredited and registered mediator, and a member of several mediation panels.
Linda currently serves as Chair of the UK Workforce Hub implementation group for the national occupational standards for trustees and management committee members, she chaired the Code of Governance working party, and is founding past chair of Charity Trustee Networks. She is a member of the Institute of Fundraising Standards Committee, an associate consultant at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, and a trustee of Directory of Social Change.
Lady fWinired Tumim CBE
Winifred had 2 profoundly deaf children which led her to become Chairman of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People and subsequently Chairman of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. She has been a Member of the General Medical Council and also chaired the NCVO / Charity Commission working party to improve the effectiveness of Charity Trustees. She also chaired the NCVO working party on charity law which has been instrumental in the present changes in charity law and in particular the introduction of the Public Benefit test.
She is currently chairman of the United Kingdom advisory panel on Health Care Workers Infected with Blood-Borne Viruses and a Member of the Advisory Council of the NVCO.
She also provides advice to the National Trust, the Stroke Association and the General Medical Council.
Marketing and Communications
Judith Diment
Judith Diment is a public relations consultant and has worked for Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland since 1996. She has held senior positions in marketing and communications for over 25 years. She started a successful Thames Valley public relations and event management company in 1988 which was sold to HBL Media Ltd, a top 100 agency, in 2000. Educated at the Universities of Wales and London, Judith is a scientist by training and worked for 15 years at the Natural History Museum in London where she was Head of Public Relations. Judith lives in Maidenhead and is an active member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, Institute of Directors and is a member of the Advisory Board of Buckinghamshire Business School and Thames Valley University Advisory Committee for Public Relations courses.
Judith is involved in local community work including The Diocese of Oxford Communications Strategy Group, Thames Hospice Care Fund Raising Committee and is a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor St George. In 2004 Judith completed a charity cycle ride from London to Paris.
In 2004 Judith was awarded an Institute of Public Relations IPR Pride Award for the Rotary Stroke Awareness PR Campaign
In June 2005 Judith received a Paul Harris Fellow award from Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland.
Nick Boyle, Flare Imaging
Nick runs a web and graphic design company based in Reading aimed at providing effective web solutions, print work including brochures, leaflets, signage, posters, branded merchandise and stationery as well as, online banner and email marketing strategies. Flare are pleased to be involved with the Rivertime Boat Trust.
Viv & Bob Lowery
A member of the husband and wife team, Viv spent some 20 years working in the field of tourism and corporate hospitality especially with the Beautiful Berkshire campaign which promoted tourism in the Thames Valley. She is now a senior executive with Fairway Press and has considerable experience in design, printing and stationery. She has offered to provide and sponsor the printing for the Rivertime Boat Trust.
Bob is a specialist photographer who uses the very latest techniques to obtain great pictures for his clients particularly stately homes and commercial sites. He carried out all the photography for the re-enactment of Gregory’s famous picture at Boulters Lock in 1995, one hundred years after Gregory painted ‘ Ascot Sunday at Boulters Lock’. He has offered to provide photographic support for the charity.
