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Our development plansWe are actively developing a major new-build extension to the Town Hall. Details here.
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Who we areHebden Bridge Community Association is a member-controlled charitable organisation. It is important to us that we have the widest possible support from within the Hebden Bridge community, and we are pleased that currently over 550 people have signed up as Friends of the Town Hall and members of the Association. The Association is managed by the members of the voluntary Board of Trustees, who are elected by the members. We welcomed five new trustees to our Board following an election in November 2011. Our Chair is Peter Hirst. Peter has recently retired, having spent most of his working life in community development and local sustainability. He worked for and with local authorities, government departments and voluntary agencies. He is currently a trustee of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, where he chairs both their Enterprise Board and the performance, audit and review committee. Our company secretary is Andrew Bibby. Andrew is a freelance financial journalist, who regularly contributes to the national press. He has a particular interest in social enterprise and co-operative business. He has lived in Hebden Bridge for 22 years. Stephen Curry and his partner Christine established a guest house business in Hebden Bridge in 2000. This is Stephen's fourth small business. He had an industrial and human relations consultancy presenting for the DTI, a marketing/import agency and a security company. Locally he was chair the UCVR Tourism Action Croup. As a member of Todmorden Civic Society, he is interested in architectural conservation. Gwendoline Goddard, our Vice Chair, is a retired education adviser. She has been a trustee of Square Chapel Centre for the Arts (Halifax) and a trustee of the Ramblers Association. A founder member of Hebden Bridge Walkers are Welcome, she is also Chair of Todmorden U3A. Gwen has lived in Hebden Bridge for 19 years. Sarah Moss joined the board of trustees at the 2009 AGM. She hae business experience in sales and marketing gained in both the public and private sectors. Chris Smith is a communications professional and writer with his own Hebden Bridge-based consultancy business. He has a strong interest in social enterprise and community entrepreneurship and works with organisations large and small across the country. He regularly blogs for The Guardian on PR and marketing issues as they relate to social enterprise. Jerry Smith has recently retired from the Policy Unit of Lancashire County Council and has a background in community development. He has experience of board membership in the voluntary sector and, with his wife Sally, runs a guest house business in Sri Lanka to where they will both move in 2013. Chris Standish is a chartered town planner and regeneration professional, who lives in Hebden Bridge. He has spent fifteen years delivering regeneration projects in both the public and private sector. He is a member of the Academy of Urbanism. He is passionate about encouraging local distinctiveness, design quality and community involvement as integral aspects of regeneration projects. Mike Troke is a former university professor and head of department for research and enterprise, who has also held senior positions in private sector engineering, public sector healthcare and higher education. He has also been a magistrate and helpline counsellor (and bus driver for physically disabled people). He says that he is supposed to be retired but is busier than ever doing consultancy and voluntary work. Rachel Rickards has worked for the Prince's Trust and also as a manager for a small charity, setting up and running a business incubator project in east London housing 26 businesses. She has experience in working with both the public and private sectors.
Fiona Armer, a KPMG-trained Chartered Accountant with 15 years' post-qualification experience in the public sector in a wide variety of roles including internal audit, is currently our Treasurer, working in an advisory capacity with the trustees. Our auditors are Riley and Co, based in Halifax. Sarah Lister-Blow is our Executive Director, and Sue Graham is our Administrator. For our major capital-build project, the trustees have appointed Bauman Lyons as architectural advisors, BWA as quantity surveyors, Arups as consulting engineers and Strategic Team Group as contractors.
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