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Jane Barry, Chair of Trustees

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Jane Barry has spent over two decades within the civil service and has two teenage children, one who has moderate permanent hearing loss. 

It was Auditory VerbalUK’s aspirations for deaf children and the hugely positive affect the programme has on the whole family and society in general which inspired Jane to take up the role which she did in March 2020.

Her current job on secondment to the Metropolitan Police as Director of Change, focusses on ensuring cross-UK capabilities are ready for the challenges ahead and planning for change.

 

Published: 3rd March, 2016

Updated: 22nd April, 2020

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Paul Clifford, Treasurer

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Paul is a former Company Director. An Oxford graduate, he spent most of his working life in publishing, the last 15 years as MD of Lion Hudson plc, the UK’s largest independent Christian publisher. He also had a spell of 8 years, mid-career, working for Oxfam in marketing and general management and promoting fair trade. In addition, he has been a lay minister in the Church of England for more than 25 years. Now retired, he is vice-chair of the board of governors of his local primary school. He is married with two adult daughters and two grandchildren.

Paul joined the board as the Treasurer in October 2016.

Published: 4th March, 2016

Updated: 26th October, 2016

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Liz Delaney, Trustee

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Liz is the mother of two young sons. She attended the University of Manchester from where she has a degree in Genetics. After graduating she attended MMU Law School and subsequently qualified as a lawyer. She has been working in corporate law since 2003. Her background in corporate and commercial law has involved advising a wide range of clients from tech start-ups to SMEs and listed plcs, at all points of their life cycles, and includes advising charities and schools on governance and strategic planning.

Before the birth of her older son Liz spent 9 years volunteering with a national telephone helpline service, including a period of branch committee membership and a role in the training and supervision of other volunteers. Since 2011 has organized annual collections of toys and Christmas gifts for a Manchester children’s charity from the parents of other children at her sons’ nursery school.

Liz became a trustee of AVUK in March 2014

Published: 22nd March, 2016

Updated: 7th November, 2016

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Emma Hardaker-Jones, Trustee

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Emma is the Group HR Director at L&G. She has 23 years as a both a business leader and HR Professional with significant in depth expertise in Talent, Learning and Development, D&I. Org Design, Recruitment. Emma has significant Board experience, having sat on the Board of PA Consulting and now on the Legal & General Resources Board, a subsidiary board to the main PLC Board.

Emma joined the board in 2017

Published: 23rd March, 2016

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Jorge Villon, Trustee

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Jorge is the father of a 2-year-old girl who is on the AVUK programme after being bilaterally implanted at the age of 8-months.  Jorge understands the impact that AVT can have on children that are born with hearing impairment. 

Jorge spent most of his career in financial markets, including roles as CEO of MKM Longboat and Polygon Investment Partners, before retiring in 2012.  His interest is now mostly in philanthropy, specifically as founder of Rwanda Hope Foundation, a social impact organisation working in Rwanda and Grace Saves, which supports wildlife conservation projects.  He joined the AVUK board in October 2018.

Published: 25th March, 2016

Updated: 20th November, 2018

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Amanda Wilkinson, Trustee

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Amanda is lending her fundraising skills to AVUK to help to support the charity to build voluntary income to reach its organisational ambitions in the longer term. Amanda brings with her over 19 years’ experience of successful fundraising and of leading target-driven fundraising teams for national and international children’s and disability charities, including Sense, EveryChild and ChildLine. 

Amanda became CEO of Motivation in January 2017.

Amanda became a trustee in January 2015.

Published: 30th March, 2016

Updated: 7th March, 2017

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Samantha Pryke, Trustee

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Sam is profoundly deaf in both ears and wears a cochlear implant.

Sam did a first degree in Sociology at the University of Nottingham, Masters in Disability Studies at the University of Leeds and a further post graduate degree in management and leadership in the public sector, also at the University of Leeds.

Sam has joined the board to advise on strategy/policy, using her policy background in Government of 18 years, covering a range of diverse issues such as early years education, cyber security, abuse of learning disabled people in care homes, access to NHS gender reassignment services, NHS employment and cancer policy.

Sam also has experience of voluntary sector work, advocating for the rights of disabled people, including work at a women’s refuge and women’s prison to raise awareness of the need for supporting those less able to access services.

Sam cares passionately about inclusive environments, working with others to overcome barriers and realise potential. Sam has also joined AVUK to make a difference based on her personal experience of special educational needs and mainstream education. She wants to see all deaf children have the tools they need, to be whatever they wish to be, and to lead happy, fulfilling lives. 

 

 

Published: 10th October, 2019

Updated: 15th October, 2019

Author: Fiona Simpson

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Eleanor Conroy, Trustee

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Eleanor ConroyEleanor joined the Board of Trustees in 2020. She is a seasoned communications professional and now director of communications and marketing for Publicis Groupe UK.

Eleanor has more than two decades’ communications experience across a wide variety of sectors including media, entertainment, travel, consumer goods and retail, for iconic brands such as Holiday Inn, Starbucks Coca-Cola, Microsoft, P&G and Asda.

Eleanor’s daughter was born in 2018 with profound hearing loss. Shoshana started auditory verbal therapy prior to cochlear implant surgery in 2019 and has been on the programme since then.

 

Published: 24th September, 2020

Updated: 29th September, 2020

Author: Chelsie Nicholls

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Frances Owen, Trustee

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After studying modern languages at university, Frances trained and then worked as a technical translator. She held a range of administrative and managerial roles at the universities of Loughborough, City and Hull where she was University Registrar and Secretary for ten years, taking the lead on governance and compliance, quality assurance, educational partnerships and the student experience. Frances has served as Quality Champion at South East European University, North Macedonia, and as Vice-Chair of the Board of Bishop Burton College of Further and Higher Education.

Frances will act as Board lead for the quality assurance, development and enhancement of AVUK’s postgraduate and continuing education programmes. She will also support AVUK in business improvement and enhancing accountability.

Published: 24th September, 2020

Updated: 28th September, 2020

Author: Chelsie Nicholls

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Auditory Verbal UK is a registered charity (charity no:1095133). Registered company number: 4569764. Registered in England & Wales. Auditory Verbal UK is the operating name of the Auditory Verbal Centre.