About the CFDG
Risk Conference 2004
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| Peter Grant biog...
Charles Cox biog... Martin Gill biog... Andy Simmons biog... Richard Weighell biog... Julian Smith biog... |
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Euan Drysdale biog... Charles Nall biog... Rick Van Der Merve biog... Pesh Framjee biog... Colin Charnley PIIA MCIBS biog... Helen Verney biog... |
Peter Grant
Senior Visiting Fellow in Grantmaking Managment, Cass Business
School, City University, London
Peter Grant worked in the arts and film business before becoming
Director of an Inner city sports charity for eight years. He joined
Sport England at the commencement of the National Lottery and
was successively deputy Director of Operations and Head of Public
Affairs. From 1999 to 2004 he was Director of Operations of the
New Opportuinities Fund devising and managing nearly 100 separate
funding programmes to a combined value of over four billion pounds.
He is now consultant to the Lottery Forum of Chief Executives
and, as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Cass Business School, is
launching the world's first post-graduate course in grant making.
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Charles
Cox
Head of Charities, PKF
As head of the national charities team, Charles has overall responsibility
for PKF's services to charity clients. Charles has many years'
experience of advising charities, following his extensive work
with PLCs and major publicly funded bodies. With this combination
of experience, he is able to ensure advice is broad-based and
commercial, and that the appropriate blend of skills is applied
to meet client needs. Charles advises charities on governance
issues and also acts in a personal capacity as a charity trustee
and a volunteer youth leader.
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Martin
Gill
New Media & Web Manager, Comic Relief
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Andy Simmons
Volunteer, Crisis and National Trust
Andy Simmons has been a volunteer for a range of charities including
Crisis and the National Trust for over 20 years. During that time
he has held positions at all levels of volunteering from deciding
policy and strategy to cleaning toilets! Andy has also volunteered
his time as a chair of governors at a local primary school, on
a Housing Association board and as a local government Councillor
in London.
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Richard Weighell
Partner, PKF
Richard leads PKF's specialist internal audit and risk management
team. He has over eighteen years' experience delivering risk-based
services to a range of public, private and charity sector clients.
He has worked with many charities to help them develop risk management
so as to achieve the right balance between innovation and exposure
and ensure compliance with SORP. Richard also speaks and writes
regularly on risk management issues.
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Julian
Smith
Partner, Farrer & Co
Julian joined Farrer & Co in 1992 and became a Partner in
May 2000. He works in the firm's Charity and Community Team, specialising
in advising Charities and Non-Departmental Public Bodies. He is
also head of the firm's Museums and Galleries Group and is a member
of its Tax and Freedom of Information Groups. Julian is a member
of the Advisory Board of the European Association for Planned
Giving and a member of the Charity Law Association and regularly
contributes to working groups in the sector. He also lectures
part-time at Cass Business School.
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Euan Drysdale
Account Executive, Keegan & Pennykid Insurance
Brokers
Euan has been in Insurance for 34 years, 23 of them working
for UK General Insurance Companies handling all the major classes
of General Insurance and carrying out Risk Improvement surveys.
Joined Keegan & Pennykid 9 years ago, and has been heavily
involved in the development of the Encompass scheme and the provision
of training workshops for Charity groups.
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Charles Nall
Director of Finance, Children's Society
Charles Nall is Corporate Services Director at The Children's
Society, joining in 1998 as Finance & Administration Director.
He trained with Price Waterhouse. After a varied year out he became
Assistant Director at The Wolfson Foundation. An MBA at Cranfield
then equipped him for the changes undertaken by the Society.
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Rick Van Der Merve
Charity Logistics
Rick heads up the Charity Disaster Recovery Network (CDRN)
for Charity Logistics. CDRN has over 30 office sites nationally
with over 1m sq ft of office space on standby exclusively for
charities. It provides a complete working mobile office deliverable
to anywhere in England or Wales.
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Pesh Framjee
Head of the Not for Profit Unit, Deloitte
Pesh Framjee is the Special Advisor to the Charity Finance
Directors’ Group. With over 20 years experience in the not
for profit sector, he writes and lectures extensively in the UK
and internationally on charity matters, has been FD of two charities
and has undertaken special work for the Charity Commission. He
is a trustee and works full time with Non Profit Organisations.
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Colin
Charnley PIIA MCIBS
Director of Fraud, Bank of Scotland Corporate
Colin Charnley is Director of Fraud Risk Management for
Bank of Scotland Corporate, part of the HBOS Group. Colin has
spent 19 years in Banking in a variety of roles including "traditional"
banking and internal audit and holds professional qualifications
from the Institute of Bankers in Scotland and the Institute of
Internal Auditors, UK & Ireland. His current roles and responsibilities
cover a variety of anti-fraud issues, from banking, lending, asset
finance and payment frauds through to ownership of fraud strategy
and policy for his part of the Group. In addition, Colin is a
member of the board of CIFAS, the UK's Fraud Prevention Service.
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Helen
Verney
Director of Finance and IT, MS Society
Helen is the MS Society Director of Finance and IT as
well as Vice Chair of the CFDG Board of Trustees. Previously she
was Director of Finance IT and Central Services at Crisis for
nearly 4 years. Helen is also a qualified chartered accountant
with auditing experience from the commercial and charity sector.
Helen is also a Treasurer of a South London charity and has been
a long-term volunteer of different organisations. Helen is particularly
interested in risk management and in volunteer valuation in statutory
accounts. She recently chaired the Inputs Matter working group
on that subject as part of the CFDG (Lloyds TSB funded) Inputs
project.
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