Trustees

Group Finance Director with quoted company experience.  Responsibilities have included finance, risk, compliance, internal audit and IT.  Key roles in strategic planning, corporate finance activity, restructuring, change management and investor relations.   Strong emphasis on good corporate governance, robust financial control and shareholder value.  Finance Director at the Bank of England.   

Trained as a teacher, is a Relate-trained counsellor, an accredited TripleP (Positive Parenting Programme) parenting educator, a broadcaster and author of nearly thirty books.  She has been a national agony aunt for almost 20 years, now writing for Woman magazine but has written weekly columns in The Times, the Guardian, Woman’s Own magazine and BBC Health Online and was the counsellor seen guiding five families through their family dilemmas on the major BBC1 series, Stepfamilies. Is a trustee of The Who Cares Trust, for “looked after” children.  Was one of the founding agony aunts in the Kids In The Middle alliance, lobbying for increased support for children caught up in family breakdown, and edited the KITM website. Has worked for the Family Planning Association, Brook and Parentline Plus. 

Makes frequent appearances on national and local television and radio on programmes such as BBC Breakfast, You and Yours and Women’s Hour and is a regular on BBC Scotland and BBC Wales as well as various local BBC and commercial stations, often as a spokesperson for Family Lives. Is a freelance journalist and has written features, mainly on sex, relationship, parenting, health and counselling matters, for a wide range of national magazines and newspapers. Has conceived and written leaflets and website material for many organisations including the NSPCC, One Parent Families, the Family Planning Association, ParentingUK and Brook Advisory Centres.  She is the agony aunt for The Who Cares? Trust’s two magazines for kids in care and is regularly asked to give expert comment in the national press.

Was previously Vice-Chair of Parentline Plus.

Born near Edinburgh in 1940, he was educated at Lasswade high School and graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc in Geology in 1961.  He worked for eight years in Operations Research in CWS Manchester.  He then joined ICL and worked in London and Paris in Sales, Marketing and General Management positions for thirteen years.  

In 1982 he joined Dyneer, an American corporation, as their European Marketing manager.  In 1986 he was one of the leaders in an MBO of the European operation forming Technitron plc and became a main board member.  The board of Technitron agreed the sale of the company to Oki Electric Industry, Tokyo and he joined the board of Oki Europe Limited.  He became Chairman and Managing director of the European operation of OKI in 1995 and at the same time a main board member of the Oki Data Corporation in Japan.  He retired from OKI in March 2007.  

Andrew is married with 3 children and 7 grandchildren.

Organisational development and diversity consultant and trainer, specialising in cultural change, diversity audits, community consultation and focus group research for local authorities, government departments and NHS.  Experience of teaching in further and higher education. Senior manager in local government (education).  Founded City of London College and a youth club in Shoreditch.  Served on school and college governing bodies and on the Boards of Riverside NHS Trust and Kensington Housing Trust.  Volunteer worker with refugee families and recently trained to work as volunteer call-taker for Family Lives. 

Sarah Stewart-Brown is Professor of Public Health at Warwick University’s Medical School. During her career, she has worked in the NHS as a paediatrician and public health consultant as well as in the higher education sector. For the last twenty years her research has focused on emotional and mental health and wellbeing with a particular interest in the role of parenting and parent-child relationships. She has worked on programme development and evaluation, programme effectiveness and monitoring the effects of the roll out of programmes. She has written widely on issues relating to child health and public mental health in general and on parenting and school- based programmes in particular. She teaches medical students and postgraduate students in public health about mental health and wellbeing and parenting.  

Sarah is Co-Chair of the Faculty of Public Health’s Mental Health Committee; she works with the English Ministerial Advisory Committee implementing the mental health strategy – No Health Without Mental Health, with Public Health England on the new mental health promotion strategy and with the Office of National Statistics on measuring wellbeing. She has also worked with the Scottish Government on their Mental Health Strategy and is now working with the Welsh Assembly Government.

Sarah was a trustee of the Parenting Education and Support Forum and then a trustee and Vice Chairman of Parenting UK throughout its existence.  She had two children and three grandchildren.