The Chiltern Society is a charity with over 7000 members which for 50 years has been working to care for and protect the Chilterns area from unsuitable development.

Book published in hardback in 2012, paperback in 2013, foreword by Courtney Walsh,describing the author's travels around the world ' Finding the heart of cricket in the world's most unlikely places'. Shortlisted for The Cricket Society/MCC Cricket book of the year in 2012, described by the Telegraph's Scyld Berry thus ' In terms of what this game can do worldwide ... this is the most important cricket book yet written', and by the Bunbury founder David English CBE as 'Marvellous.. Magnificent… Show more Book published in hardback in 2012, paperback in 2013, foreword by Courtney Walsh,describing the author's travels around the world ' Finding the heart of cricket in the world's most unlikely places'. Shortlisted for The Cricket Society/MCC Cricket book of the year in 2012, described by the Telegraph's Scyld Berry thus ' In terms of what this game can do worldwide ... this is the most important cricket book yet written', and by the Bunbury founder David English CBE as 'Marvellous.. Magnificent observation. Great Humour.A wonderful book. Show less

Chairman of The Lord's Taverners, the leading youth sports and disability charity in the UK

My remit was to manage a multi-million GBP budget in order to increase the profile of the university and substantially increase the number of well qualified applicants for over 500 HE courses.Key achievements included:• Successfully devised and launched “Proud to be London Met” campaign which started the process of transforming in a positive way the University’s brand image and reputation amongst all stakeholder groups including staff and students

Prior to joining, the charity was struggling financially and required strong management and leadership in order to restore its national and international reputation, working with disadvantaged and disabled young people.Having conducted a strategic review, I rebranded the charity in order to appeal to a wider group of stakeholders including commercial sponsors as well as strengthening the quality and skills of the management team.In the short-medium term, the charity achieved… Show more Prior to joining, the charity was struggling financially and required strong management and leadership in order to restore its national and international reputation, working with disadvantaged and disabled young people.Having conducted a strategic review, I rebranded the charity in order to appeal to a wider group of stakeholders including commercial sponsors as well as strengthening the quality and skills of the management team.In the short-medium term, the charity achieved some notable results including raising over £1m for a state of the art cricket centre as well as increasing annual income from sponsorship and fundraising activies four-fold.We also successfully launched Street20 cricket which received substantial support and critical success from a wide vartiety of organisations including Metropolitan Police, Barclays Bank and the ECB.As a result of increasing funds into the charity, we were invited by UK Sport, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and UNICEF to deliver a significant international development programme covering the Americas, Israel, Africa and South Asia. This work also attracted the support of the British Army, Virgin Atlantic, the Office of the Mayor of London and British Airways. Today, Cricket for Change helps hundreds of thousands of young people who would otherwise not benefit from its education, training and mentoring programmes.The charity is now acknowledged as a world leader in its field. Show less