Trustees England

Malcolm Hurlston (chair)

Malcolm (chair), a founding trustee, chairs the Board. He also chairs CCCS Scotland, Registry Trust and the consulting firm, Hurlstons. He has been described as a "serial social entrepreneur" who devised the trade union bank Unity, chairs the European Centre for Employee Ownership, was a champion of the Community Legal Service and is a visiting professor at Westminster Business School.

Jeremy Burton

Jeremy is a trustee for many important charities in the Leeds area and is strongly connected with the local community. He is Honorary French Consul in Leeds and is also a founding trustee.

Chris Leslie

Chris is a director of the think-tank, New Local Government Network. A graduate of Leeds University, he was previously a minister at the Department for Constitutional Affairs. He joined the board in 2006.

Daniel Phelan

Daniel Phelan is editor-in-chief of Civil Society Media which publishes the magazines Charity Finance, Professional Fundraising and Governance. He founded the Charity Awards, an annual UK wide programme recognising excellence in charity management

Sir Geoff Mulcahy

Sir Geoff has a long and distinguished career in retailing that began in 1982 when, after working in the sugar, engineering and oil industries, he joined Kingfisher. He became Group Managing Director of Kingfisher in 1984 and retired as Chief Executive in 2002 after building it into the largest non-food retailer in the UK, operating in 13 countries worldwide, and overseeing the Group's demerger into three quoted companies.

He is currently chairman of Javelin Group, a retail consultancy, and a non executive director of Instore plc and The Home World. He has degrees from Manchester University and Harvard Business School. Sir Geoff was knighted in 1993 and became Chairman of British Retail Consortium in July 2006.

Suzanna Taverne

Suzanna has broad experience at board level of strategic development and organisational change, working across public and private sectors in senior management, strategy and financial roles. Suzanna is currently a non-executive director of the Nationwide Building Society, a non-executive director of Ford Financial Europe, chair of Gingerbread and a trustee of the Design Museum.

David Coates

David is a financial services specialist whose speciality is helping businesses develop. He joined Experian as Managing Director of the Business Information and Consumer Information divisions. In 2000 he was appointed Managing Director and founding director of Callcredit in Leeds. In 2004 he joined the private equity backed company Davenham as Chief Executive and took the group public in 2005.

Mike Fairey

Mike Fairey recently retired from his position of Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer of Lloyds TSB Group PLC. Mike served in this position at Lloyds TSB Group since 1998, retiring at the end of June 2008. He originally joined Barclays Bank in 1967 and held a number of senior and general management appointments, including as Managing Director of Barclays Direct Lending Services from 1990 to 1991.

Mike joined TSB Group in 1991 and held a number of senior and director positions as the banks merged and Lloyds TSB Group grew substantially, culminating in his position as Deputy Group Chief Executive.