Advocacy First - Trustees

Trustees

	Irving Radnor - Chairman
	I have been involved with charity work for 40 years covering, disability, older people, deprived children, housing, education, health and presently advocacy. Appointed Chair in 2006 when decisive action was needed to safeguard the future. My pleasure, shared with other Trustees, is that we are growing and are now and integral & important part of the community. Crucially we work as a team; this enables us to provide a quality service. We keep focused on providing a service to our clients and the dedication and commitment of all our staff (paid and volunteer) to ensure we are the centre of excellence providing quality service to the vulnerable in our community. I am also governor of a FE College and a special needs school. I am involved with a children's day nursery and a committee member in a disability trust. My paid work life has included, watch and clock repairer, shirt and pyjama factory employee and the civil service for 24 years. Now I work as a self-employed consultant on disability issues. I still have some leisure time spent on reading, photography and gardening all of which refreshes me to give my best into Advocacy First and the other organisations where I volunteer. Top of Page

	Michael Judge - Company Secretary
	After studying classics at Tonbridge Scholl and becoming an officer during National Service he qualified as a solicitor in 1959. He became a partner in his substantial family firm specialising in Corporate Litigation. He was the senior partner from 1989 until his retirement in 2004. He was a councillor on Sevenoaks District Council and Chairman of the Amenities Committee. As a Catholic he is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta attending Lourdes most years. He supports his local rugby club, Kent county Cricket Club and Kent lawn Tennis Association. He is a director of Marriotts Vacation Club in Marbella Spain. He is married with two children. He joined Advocacy First as a volunteer attending hospitals and care homes on his retirement. Top of Page

	John L Parrot - Treasurer
	I became a Trustee of Advocacy First on November 2005 and have been the Honorary treasurer since October 2006. I began my working life at British Petroleum, sending cargoes of oil around the world, before moving to the city where I spent the next 29 years in investment management. I trained as a financial analyst with Prudential where I remained for 16 years and then joined Commercial Union until early retirement beckoned in 2002. After "retiring" I did some consulting as an Expert Witness until the middle of 2008. My pastimes include sport (viewed from the comfort of an armchair) and the theatre. Top of Page

	John H Hillier - Training Director
	John is a Chartered Accountant and has a wide range of experiences from Industry after fifteen years as a Finance Director before working in secondary education when in 1999 he obtained a MBA in Educational Management from Lincoln University, and taught post-sixteen students on a GNVQ course. John has lectured on courses arranged for Bursars and Finance Manages and wad a guest lecturer on the MBA course in Lincoln. John assisted in the preparation of ICT material for the National College of School Leadership, on-line course and currently is a Trustee and also volunteer worker with Advocacy First. John is still involved with a Sixth Form College in Lewisham as a Governor. John played an important part in the original work done to obtain accreditation of our training course with the National Open College Network and the present course and the way we manage it and maintain the academic standard required by the National Open College Network reflects his work with support from the other Trustees. Top of Page

	Madelaine Henwood
	Madelaine is a local Solicitor and Partner in the Bromley law practice Judge & Priestley LLP. She studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury and graduated in 1994 with a Law Degree. She qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and came to Bromley as a newly qualified solicitor to join the small Law Practice of Wallis & Co where she built up a very successful residential property client base and became a partner in this firm in 2001. In April 2008 Wallis & Co merged with Judge & Priestley which has brought with it lots of exciting changes and new opportunities which Madelaine is really enjoying. She is now, for example, a newly appointed Trustee of Advocacy First which she feels is a really worthwhile charity. On a personal note Madelaine enjoys spending time with her friends and family. At the age of 36 she fulfilled a lifetime ambition and purchased her own horse, which she competes in local shows. Top of Page

	Anu Massey
	Anu studied law at University College London and completed her legal practice course at London Guildhall University. She worked at Judge & Priestley from the start of her legal career until she became a partner in 2001. In 2005 she left Judge & Priestley to became a partner at Vizards Wyeth solicitors. In 2007 Anu set up her own law firm specialising in debt recovery, commercial litigation and insolvency. She was a volunteer for the CAB (Citizen Advice Bureau) in Bromley and was also a board member of the CAB in Woolwich. Anu is married and has four large Japanese Akitas who keep her very fit. Top of Page

	Ian Dallaway
	Ian is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, and an N.L.P. Master Practitioner and Coach, trained by John Grinder, one of its founders. He retired from a career in Buying that progressed from Food buying at Sainsbury’s, to Purchasing Manager at Homebase, and Purchasing Manager at Argos Retail Group, subsequently renamed Home Retail Group. Ian is a Trustee of Greenwich Advocacy for the Elderly, and is a volunteer with the Princes Trust acting as Business Mentor and Import Advisor. Ian’s aim is to build relationships with other Advocacy Groups so that best practice can be shared, and funding relationships built. He is also bringing N.L.P. to Advocacy First’s training to enhance Advocates’ Communication and Negotiation skills. Leisure involves undertaking a degree in Literature and Fiction Writing with the Open University, Silversmithing, seeing all the friends he didn’t have time to see properly when he was working full time, and enjoying weekends with his family. He is married and has three children. Top of Page