Jenny Bradley

Chairman & GW Federation Rep

Jenny Bradley has been Chairman of GTV since December 2007 and a Board member for several years before that .
 

She has directed the function of corporate communications for two major international quoted businesses in the UK, BAA and Dairy Crest.  At BAA, Jenny was a member of the charitable donations committee of the BAA plc board; a board director of Heathrow Airport Ltd; a board member of Stansted Airport Ltd; a member of the BAA’s Group Airports Board and of the company’s Sustainable Development Board.  She retired from full time work in 2003.
 

Jenny is a member of IPR and IABC, with awards from both organisations.

John Kennedy

Co-opted Member

John Kennedy joined the GTV Board in the last century as the representative of South Bucks District Council. He served as GTV Chairman until December 2007.

He is a founder member and Trustee of Blue Sky RD and a Trustee of West London Floating Classroom.  He is also Chairman of Padstones Housing, a charity providing accommodation and 24 hour support for homeless young people in the Thames Valley.

John is also a member of Taplow Parish Council, a donation governor of Christ's Hospital, a freeman of the City of London and a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers.

For relaxation he plays golf and enjoys swimming, reading, films, music and holidays! 

Rob Morley 

Chairman of Policy, Strategy, Finance and

GW Federation Rep

Rob Morley is Vice Chairman of Groundwork Thames Valley and chairs its Finance, Governance & Remuneration Committee. He is also a Trustee Board member of the Groundwork Federation, chairs its Policy & Resources Committee, and is a member of its Selection and Remuneration Committee.

After a career as a mechanical engineer, Rob became Chief Executive of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, where he is now a Vice-President, and a member of their Nominations Committee. 

Rob is a Nominated Member of the Council of the National Trust, and a member of several other National Trust committees.  He is a Director of the Land Restoration Trust, and has served on the Board of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations as a member of the Council for National Parks. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992. 

Rob is now retired.  His leisure time interests include sailing and walking.  He is married with two sons and lives in West Berkshire. 

Hugh Somerville,

Co-opted Member, Chairman Operations, Programmes

Hugh Somerville joined GTV's Board in 1995 when he was working for British Airways (BA). He retired from BA in 2002 but remains active in aviation and tourism. In 2007 he became Chair of the Board of West London Floating Classroom. Hugh is passionate about the delivery of high quality environmental education and strongly supports GTV to deliver high quality and lasting environmental programmes.

Hugh's main active interest is working to help reduce our impact on the climate.
 

Sarah Graham

Co-opted Member

also

Chair for Blue Sky

Development &

Regeneration

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Sarah Graham has been a GTV Board member since May 2005 and Chair of the Blue Sky Board since the Company was first set up in December, 2005.

Before that, she was a Senior Civil Servant at the heart of Government working on a variety of roles, including at No.10 as a director in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. She also has experience as a free-lance business strategy consultant and as an adviser to ACEVO (the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations) on strategy around crime reduction.

Sarah recently returned to academic study and has just been awarded a Masters’ degree from Oxford University in Classical Archaeology.  She lives in Oxford and Somerset with her teenage son and black Labrador, Magic.

Bruce Allen

Member - Bucks

County Council

Bruce Allen is chairman of the Colne Valley Regional Park. He has been County Councillor for Buckinghamshire County Council since 1997.  He serves as Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for Adult Services and is a member of the following committees: the Buckinghamshire Admissions Forum (Chairman), County Council Development Control Committee, Governance Panel, Joint Advisory and Consultative Group (Schools) and the Overview & Scrutiny Committee for Children's Services.

Dermot Clancy

Co-opted Member

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Dermot Clancy is Joint Managing Director, The Clancy Group Plc, Clancy Docwra Limited, Clancy Plant Limited & Clancy Developments Limited.
 

Peter Hinde

Co-opted Member 

Peter Hinde joined the Board in 1990, soon after retiring from the Beecham Group.  His last job at Beechams was HR Director for their worldwide pharmaceutical business.  In retirement, apart from GTV, he has been an active volunteer with the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust, Royal Society for Nature Conservation, Country Land and Business Association, Oxford Diocesan Glebe Committee and the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project. 

In 1976, he and his wife bought a small fruit fam in Iver, and farm labouring is now his day job.
 

George Cooper

Co-opted Member 

George Cooper

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Bet Tickner

Member - Reading Borough Council
 

Bet Tickner has been a member of Reading Borough Council for six years.  She is currently Lead Councillor for Communities and Neighbourhoods.  She is Chair of the Ethnic Minorities Forum and the Safer Reading Campaign, as well as being a member of the Sports Development Forum.

Bet says, “I’m a very keen walker and occasional cyclist. I have lived in Africa for 5 years and visit when I can. I also chair a Reading Charity, RITA which has worked with Beruwela, Sri Lanka, a town devastated by the 2004 Tsunami in Asia.

"I’m convinced that those concerned with the environment and sustainable future agenda must work together with those concerned about poverty in the world. These agendas must be convergent, not parallel."

Lindy Kelly

Director of
Groundwork

London
 

Lindy Kelly is Director of Groundwork London. Since her arrival in 2004 she has restructured the organisation, merging 6 independent trusts and transferring the Groundwork UK regional team, to create one organisation.

Lindy joined Groundwork as a volunteer over twenty years ago, when she arrived in the UK from Australia on an environmental study tour. She has progressed from physical delivery (personally digging paths and putting up signposts!), through programme management, to Executive Director for Groundwork in Manchester before making the move to London as Regional Director.

Lindy also serves on the Board of the London Sustainability Exchange.

Lou Kizwini

Regional Director

for Groundwork

South-East

Lou Kizwini is Regional Director of Groundwork South East.  He came to Groundwork after a career in the Environment Agency that has included a secondment with the London Development Agency (LDA). His role before leaving the Agency was Performance Manager and he was instrumental in implementing a new performance management system across the organisation. 

At the LDA, Lou led on the production of a feasibility study into London’s first ‘Low Carbon Development’ of scale to be built in the Thames Gateway.