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The members of the voluntary Board of Trustees were elected by the members of Hebden Bridge Community Association in the recent keenly fought election. The results were announced at the AGM on October 8th 2009. Here are the trustees you elected:
Janet Battye is a ward Councillor for Hebden Bridge on Calderdale MBC, with an interest in regeneration and development. She has experience of major Sure Start building projects.
Andrew Bibby is a freelance financial journalist, who regularly contributes to the national press. He has a particular interest in social enterprise and co-operative business.
Robin Dixon is a retired teacher, who is a local town councillor and is also currently deputy Mayor of Hebden Royd. He also has experience in advertising, exhibition deisgn and the construction industry.
Sue Fenton moved to Hebden Bridge 28 years ago. She recently took retirement, and is now the volunteer coordinator for the Town Hall project.
Peter Hirst 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.
Karen Houghton has professional experience in regeneration and neighbourhood renewal, urban design and community sustainability. She currently works as an independent consultant. having been previously a member of Yorkshire Forward's Renaissance Towns and Cities Team.
Linda Patterson OBE is a consultant physician who has lived in Hebden Bridge for over 25 years. She has held executive and non-executive posts in the NHS, and is a trustee of the Royal College of Physicians of London and of the White Ribbon Campaign, a charity campaigning against violence against women.
Sarah Moss has business experience in sales and marketing gained in both the public and private sector. She is a former trustee of Calderdale Women's Centre.
Sara Robinson is a freelance project director and facilitator, with a particular focus on the cultural sector. She is the former Director of the rural arts centre in Ludlow, Shropshire, and has also been an Arts Council fellow on the Clore leadership programme.
We are delighted to welcome Mike Smith, who has been coopted on to our Board from April 2010, as our Treasurer. Mike is an accountant, who has worked as a company accountant for a range of locally-based businesses. He is also a Governor of the local college of further education.
Our part-time Project Worker, appointed in April 2010, is Kate Rae.
For our major capital-build project, the trustees have appointed Bauman Lyons as architectural advisors, BWA as quantity surveyors and Arup as consulting engineers.
The project team works closely with a working party established by Hebden Royd Town Council, Blackshaw Parish Council, Erringden Parish Council, Heptonstall Parish Council and Wadsworth Parish Council, comprising Cllrs Dorothy Sutcliffe, Alan Fowler, David Bell, Fiona Gibbon, Mary Livesey, Catherine Groves, Lesley Jones and parish council clerks Allan Stuttard and Lars Hansen.