Management committee
Our Management Committee (legal trustees) is responsible for the overall running of the organisation and its strategic direction. Members of the committee voluntarily contribute their time and skills. It meets every two months making key strategic decisions and ensuring that Bread's funds are effectively used to provide the best possible services to Bristol's young people.
If you would like to know more about the committee and its work, please contact Mark Hubbard or check the meeting minutes. Current members are:
Tony Bell - Trustee
After a career in archaeology, Tony has been a full time official for a trade union for some 20 years and now manages offices in Bristol and Cardiff. As well as being an office manager he continues to work with members in collective bargaining and individual bargaining. He also works with his union in the area of human resources policy development. After moving around a lot, Tony has now been in Bristol for the past 15 years.
Patsy Burrows - Social Services Advisor
Patsy is a specialist in Social Services, working currently with looked after children. She provides specific and general advice to BREAD’s management committee and Big Picture Working Group. Patsy joined BREAD as a trustee in 2004.
Lucy Cartlidge - Treasurer
Lucy has worked in finance at Lloyds TSB in Bristol since moving here in 2007. She currently works as a Management Accountant in the Operations Division producing budgets, forecasts and monthly management accounts. After graduating from Liverpool University in 2000, Lucy lived and worked in London for five years and in 2006 spent a year working and travelling in Australia.
Lucy joined BREAD's management committee as treasurer in 2008 and this is her first trustee position. She has volunteered before and in 2007 spent two weeks in Southern India helping to build sustainable housing with the charity Habitat for Humanity.
She hopes to work closely with other trustees, staff, volunteers and young people to contribute to BREAD's development and help make finance more accessible and exciting!
Rhiannon Holder - Trustee
Rhiannon works as a youth worker for Brook, the sexual health charity for young people. She also works as a teenage pregnancy project worker in South Gloucestershire. She recently graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Deaf Studies and hopes to combine her experience of young people's health and her knowledge of British Sign Language to work with deaf young people. She has been a volunteer at BREAD Youth Project for more than six years, originally as a sexual health peer educator and then more recently has become involved in the management of the organisation. Rhiannon received an MBE in the New Years Honour List 2010 for her community work. She is passionate about BREAD's work and is involved as she feels BREAD really empowers young people, enabling them to be meaningfully involved in the organisation and their local community.
Mark Hubbard - Chair
Mark has worked in the voluntary and statutory sectors for over a decade, mostly in London but latterly based in Bristol, and has a wide range of experience. He has worked for small, local community groups as well as regional and national charities in varying roles, mostly under the headings of marketing and fundraising. Mark now works as a consultant to charities providing services in strategic planning and project management. Mark also works on Bristol & Bath Green Pages, a directory of green living.
He has been a trustee since November 2005 and has chaired the management committee since July 2006. He is involved because he wants to contribute to BREAD's development and believes that, in striving for improvement and high quality, BREAD will continue to provide fantastic services to Bristol's young people.
Samar Ibrahim - Trustee
Samar is a BTEC media student, changing her studying path for next year. She joined BREAD as a volunteer in November 2008 and has been working on different projects for BREAD since then. She is mainly involved in media projects, with her first project a short film about volunteering and why young people should volunteer, and then recently working with other volunteers at BREAD on a radio show at BCfm. Samar is very excited about now joining BREAD's management committee as a trustee.
David Patterson - Trustee
David left school at 16 and worked in an office in Bristol before deciding at the age of 28 that he wanted to further his career opportunities. He went on to do a degree in Psychology at Exeter University and achieved a 2.1 (Hons) before doing research for a year and followed this by completing his Diploma in Social Work. David then went to work in Devon where he spent all his Social Work career in a number of posts starting as a generic worker, then specialising in Adult Mental Health and Child Care before focussing entirely on Children and Families. Between 1995 and 2001 David managed a large team of Social Workers focussing on long term intensive cases and was responsible for guiding all aspects of the team including recruitment, procedures, policy and finance. In 2001 David set up his own Independent Fostering Agency. The agency went from strength to strength before it was taken over and merged in 2007. In 2008 David trained as personal Life Coach. He works with individuals, couples and young people as well as staff teams to improve their satisfaction, performance and goals. Along the way David has spent seven years working as a couples co counsellor with the Dept of Clinical Psychology in Exeter, five years as a Family Mediator and registered with the UK College of Family Mediators and has completed an introductory Diploma in Counselling with the Westminster Pastoral Fellowship.
David's interests include swimming, walking (he has walked the South West Coast Path - all 635 miles of it), his home and garden, reading, almost any live performance, art or activity. David is also very committed to living and supporting a sustainable lifestyle in his community.
David Pick - Trustee
Born in Bristol, David has 20 years' experience as an Independent Financial advisor and latterly as a manager in the Financial services Sector. In 2003 he took a career break and volunteered as a full time Team Leader with the Prince's Trust on their Team Programme. This is where David discovered his passion for helping to empower young people who face more fundamental challenges in their lives. He is now a volunteer mentor on the Bristol Drugs Project and works full time in the youth sector. David feels that working with BREAD is a great opportunity to use the skills and enthusiasm to give something back to young people in his home city.
Noelle Rumball - Vice Chair
This is Noelle's first experience in either youth or voluntary sector, and she became a trustee in September 2007. Noelle's background is in business performance management, including evaluation and monitoring of strategy delivery, the storage, retrieval, analysis and presentation of management information, and some limited system design. She is also a PRINCE 2 practitioner. Noelle is involved in BREAD because it has fantastic values, provides a service delivery that really does improve young people's lives, and gives her the opportunity to work with professional, dedicated people who make even the most difficult of jobs filled with laughter.
Lee Shaw - HR Advisor
Lee has spent the last 5 years working in Human Resources at Lloyds TSB Group. He has worked in various parts of the business including the Lloyds TSB Branch Network and Cheltenham & Gloucester. Lee is a HR generalist and provides advice and guidance to managers on all areas of people management from recruitment to performance management. In addition to experience in the private sector Lee has also worked for the Princes Trust in a youth work capacity and has recently returned from 3 months of voluntary work in Thailand where he worked for the Tsunami Volunteer Centre.
Lee joined BREAD as a trustee in September 2007 and is involved because he wants to contribute to BREAD's development and give something back to Bristol where he has now lived for ten years.