Our Board of Trustees - bringing valuable experience to the organisation
Chairman Professor Elizabeth (Lisa) Hall with her sister Susan
The Chairman, has been involved with the Charity since 1979 and a Trustee since 1985. She has 'grown up with disability' and has special interest in communication with people with learning difficulties. Her sister is a skiing member of DSUK and participated in the Special Olympics in 1993. Lisa is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry at Queens' College, Cambridge and brings an expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship and project management to the Board of Trustees. She serves on several professional bodies, grant giving bodies and Trust Funds and is on the advisory boards of a number of high-tech international companies.
Vice Chairman Robbie Young
Robbie has been involved since the second year of the Uphill Ski Club 30 years ago. He has continued to be actively involved following the development of DSUK. He sits on the race management group as technical director. Robbie has worked for the sports company Salomon for the past 25 years.
Treasurer Paul Masters
Paul has been involved with DSUK since 2001 and is a Chartered Accountant. He is also a Trustee of two other charities – Mango (Management Accounting for NGOs), of which he is Chair, and Link Community Development, of which he is Treasurer.
Secretary John Currie
John has been volunteering for DSUK on overseas activity weeks since 2000 and has been a Trustee since 2006. A Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland, he has been with Bank of Scotland Corporate for almost 20 years. His main professional experience is in Operational Management and Corporate Finance.
Performance Director for British Disabled Ski Team Andrew Lockerbie
At the time DSUK was formed Andrew was the chairman the British Ski Slope Operators Association, whilst attending a meeting of a number of charities involved in snowsports, was asked whether the ski slopes in the UK would support the merger of the Snowsports charities to form DSUK. Andrew said yes then and has continued to support DSUK with the development of the BASI adaptive qualifications as Chairman of BASI and during his time as acting CEO for BASI. He has since qualified as an adaptive instructor and has donated and participated in DSUK fundraising events. Currently Andrew holds a number of directorships as well as running his own business consultancy company. He would now like to use his business knowledge, connections and his 25 years plus involvement in the snowsports industry to help continue the excellent work DSUK does by becoming a trustee of DSUK.
Trustees
Joe Broussard joined the Trustees as the Chairman of Scotland’s Alternative Skiers to help smooth the process by which that group joined Disability Snowsport UK. He is a disabled skier (bi-ski) and enjoys skiing with his family. He is a retired Head Teacher of a special residential school. He continues to be involved as Chairman of the newly established Disability Snowsport UK local club – Disability Snowsport Scotland.
Steven West is an engineer by trade and co-runs his own engineering firm. He has been skiing since the age of six and started skiing with the BSCD at Tamworth in 2002. A friend encouraged him to go along and help out - Iand he was never allowed to leave! His involvement grew during the next few years, looking after the paperwork from 2006 and taking over as slope organiser during 2007. He has skied as a helper on DSUK and BSCD activity weeks since 2005 and attended his first activity week as a BASI Adaptive Instructor in March 2008. Currently Steven attends Tamworth, Castleford and Milton Keynes sessions each month as a volunteer adaptive instructor. Skiing with DSUK has and continues to be his most rewarding and enjoyable way to spend time on snow.
Mike Todd became involved with DSUK 5 years ago as he retired from a long career in banking. His involvement came about simply because he could ski and was introduced to DSUK on that basis. He has since enjoyed leading 2 overseas activity weeks each year and met a whole new cross section of people of all abilities that shared his passion for skiing. His main contribution is being comfortable with organising events and handling the problems that inevitably arise. His goal is to make the weeks work well so that everyone on the week can just concentrate on the skiing. He is also studying part-time for a degree in Geography, after having spent a varied career with Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Scotland and latterly HBOS where he headed up the Central Services operation for the Group. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.
Matthew Prior Managing Director of Specialist Holidays Group, home to Crystal, the UK’s largest ski tour operator, as well as several market leading specialist long-haul and short-haul UK & Ireland-based tour operators. Matthew has worked in the leisure industry for a number of years – he started out as a ski rep in the early 1990s and never looked back! He spent a few years focused solely on creating ski holidays as Managing Director of Crystal, where they developed a close relationship with DSUK.
Chris Sykes first became involved with DSUK in 2000 when it was then the Uphill Ski Club, initially as a helper and then as a Party Leader on overseas activity weeks. Since 2004 he has been an adaptive ski instructor. From 2006 to 2010 Chris was the Chair of the Bromley Local Group of DSUK and continues to be involved with the group as an instructor. In 2010 he was the Chair of the Selection Appeals Committee for the British Disabled Ski Team for the Vancouver Paralympics. By profession Chris is a solicitor and since 1989 a partner in a City law firm which he co-founded.
Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity at the end of the financial year and of its surplus or deficit for the financial year. In doing so the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enables them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 1985. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
