Give with Confidence

Our board reflects the independent status of the FRSB, made up by representatives from both the sector and the general public. The board comprises the Chair, representatives from the major UK voluntary sector bodies, the consumer body Which? and five lay board members, who represent the general public.

Our board members

Colin Lloyd (Chair, Lay)

Colin has vast experience in the field of advertising, publishing, and marketing services and founded the KLP Group in 1970 which became a global marketing services group. In 1983 KLP Group listed on the London Stock Exchange – being the first company in the promotion-marketing sector to do so. Following the Group’s acquisition by the French advertising group RSCG, Colin was appointed President – Marketing Services Worldwide and Chair of its UK operations.

Colin has held a variety of prestigious positions including Chief Executive of the Directing Marketing Association; first President of the International Federation of Direct Marketing Associations; President of the DMA; Director of the Advertising Standards Board of Finance; Council member of the Advertising Association; founding board member of Alliance for Electronic Business; and board director of the National Newspapers Mail Order Protection Scheme. He is non-executive Chair of two public companies and a NED of two private companies.

In 2006 Colin was appointed as Chair of the Fundraising Standards Board.

Mick Aldridge, representing the PFRA

Mick has worked in charity fundraising since 1992, initially in telemarketing and since 2000 in face-to-face. Throughout this time many of his roles have focussed on regulatory compliance. He has been an active member of the PFRA (Public Fundraising Regulatory Association) since its inception in 2000 and took on the role of Chief Executive in May 2006. He has also worked directly for various voluntary organisations, in local government, and in retail logistics. He is a member of the Institute of Fundraising and a Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing.

Gill Raikes, representing the Institute of Fundraising

Gill joined the National Trust in the 1980s as a junior press officer.  Since then, she has managed the Neptune Campaign, introduced several national events and fundraising activities, such as the raffle, and she managed the new and growing regional fundraising team.  Since 2001, Gill has been Director of Fundraising.  Last year, she was awarded a Lifetime Contribution Award by the Charity Sector.

The Fundraising Department, with help and support from other colleagues, brings in £84 m each year.

Tim Hencher, representing SCVO

Based in Edinburgh Tim is the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations Director of Finance and Resources. Tim is accountable for the strategic direction and day-to-day operation of SCVO’s key support services, Finance, ICT, HR and Facilities. His role at SCVO gives him considerable exposure to the financial issues that affect the voluntary sector in Scotland. Prior to joining SCVO in 2008 Tim had worked in the insurance, media and education sectors. Tim also sits on the Executive Committee of the Scottish Charity Directors Finance Group.

Lawrie Simanowitz, representing the Charity Law Association

Lawrie has been a partner in charity specialist law firm Bates Wells & Braithwaite since 2006. His particular areas of expertise include the creation of charities; charity constitutions, advice on restructuring and incorporation; Charity Commission investigations; copyright; fundraising advice and agreements; information law; e-commerce and on-line fundraising projects; and trademarks. He is a member of the Charity Law Association working party on charity investigations.

Lawrie regularly writes for a variety of publications and co-authored the new Institute of Fundraising Guide to Electronic Fundraising. He speaks at seminars, conferences and in-house training events for charities on subjects including governance, contract law, intellectual property, data protection, fundraising, and campaigning.

He is also on the board of Community Hub, The Big Arts Trust, and the Urdang Academy of Dance. In 2001 he was Law Society Young Solicitors pro bono solicitor of the year.

Eileen Hunter Kinsman, representing the WCVA

Eileen Kinsman has worked in the charity sector for nearly twenty years, initially as a fundraiser for national charities including Amnesty International, Free Tibet Campaign and Save the Children. She moved to mid Wales in 2001 to take up a post as Administrative Director at the Centre for Alternative Technology near Machynlleth. She has since moved into training, teaching in the Department of Voluntary Sector Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter and latterly as Giving Wales Officer at WCVA. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Edinburgh University and is currently studying for an MBA.

Helen Parker, representing Which?

Helen is Assistant Chief Executive and Editorial Director of Which?. She has overall responsibility for all digital and print content and for Which?’s consumer testing and research programme. She is also an executive director of the Which? Ltd Board.

Helen originally joined Which? in a junior editorial role from where she was promoted to Editor of Which? magazine and eventually to Editorial Director in 2005. Before joining Which?, Helen was a journalist at the British Medical Association, specialising in health and medical politics, and was a graduate trainee at Millward Brown International, a market research agency specialising in tracking advertising effectiveness. She has a languages degree from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Richard Crossley(Lay)

Richard entered the Trading Standards service in Hull as a trainee in 1963 and served in various local authorities in the north of England, becoming Chief Trading Standards Officer for North Tyneside Council. He has extensive experience of both criminal and civil enforcement methods, and the handling and disposal of complaints about both goods and services. Appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1991 and a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee in 2005. Richard has served on the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority and on the Northumbria Regional Flood Protection Committee.

Elaine Stallard (Lay)

Elaine is a highly experienced, professional and innovative senior executive experienced at problem solving at the highest levels. Elaine started her career at The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors where she became Head of Public Relations and Membership Affairs. In 1987 she set up her own management consultancy which specialised in business, marketing and design solutions for the professions, charitable bodies and medical organisations. Her many clients included The Millennium Commission, The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, The College of Optometrists, Woolwich plc and The Electoral Commission. She is currently Director of Marketing for Sherborne School in Dorset.

Elaine is a Magistrate, Fellow of the Purcell School of Music, a member of Chelsea Arts Club and a past vice-chair of Getting London Working, a Tomorrows People initiative.

Roy Thompson (Lay)

Roy lives in Suffolk and is an IT Consultant and a lay-member of the Employment Tribunals. In the past he has been an Associate Complaints Investigator for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. In the past Roy has been the Chief Officer of a county-wide charity in Suffolk and has worked as a member of the consumer committee for the regional committees of both OFWAT and OFFER. Roy has also spent six years serving as a non-executive director of a local NHS Trust for people with mental health problems and learning difficulties.

John Wenger (Treasurer, Lay)

John graduated from Bristol University in 1965 and joined an electrical engineering company where he trained to be an accountant. After three years he joined Beecham Pharmaceuticals and stayed for 22 years ending up as Finance Director of its European Division based in Brussels.

He returned to the UK in 1990 and worked for a biotechnology company and two charities before retiring in January 2004.

He is a past Chair of the Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) and is currently a trustee of three charities.

Zoë Willems (Lay)

After graduating from Oxford University in 1996, Zöe worked for conflict resolution and development charities before joining the Charity Commission, the charity regulator for England and Wales. She has had various roles and experiences, from hands-on advice and training of charity trustees, to business planning, and developing and managing the original large charities team. As Senior Policy Advisor, specialising in fundraising, philanthropy, trading and social investment, she has advised and lobbied on the contents of the Charities Bill, and developed the framework for licensing public charitable collections. She has also worked with the Commission’s international programme, providing advice to delegates from around the world on developing effective regulatory systems for the voluntary sector. She is now a freelance consultant and writer, specialising in governance and fundraising, and is a trustee of Charity Trustee Networks.

Our team

Chief Executive - Alistair McLean

Alistair graduated from Manchester University in 1981 and went into the FMCG sector specialising in marketing and retailing. He has worked with a number of blue chip plc’s and completed a full time MBA at Bradford Business School in 1990. Since then he has worked in the service sector at one of the worlds largest business advisory firms and in the professional sports sector in both the commercial and regulatory areas of the industry. Over the past four years, Alistair has been CEO of the NGRC which is the self -regulatory arm of the Greyhound Racing Industry. In this role of self-regulation, he has dealt with a large and diverse stakeholder group including government, welfare organisations and many related charities.

The Executive Team

We have teams in London, Swansea and Edinburgh who look after the membership of the FRSB scheme and handle queries and complaints from the general public about fundraising.