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. We meet 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:
Patsy Burrows
Biography coming soon.
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.
John Huskins, Vice Chair
John was for 18 years an HM Inspector of Schools youth work specialist, with responsibility for work with disaffected adolescents, outdoor education and youth counselling. He was also adviser and assessor to the DFES on grants to voluntary youth organisations. He is currently an education consultant specializing in providing management support and training to local authorities, youth organisations and schools in work with disaffected young people and 'challenging' students, with particular attention to demonstrating learning outcomes, accountability and accreditation. He is author of the youth work training handbooks: 'Quality work with young people', 'From disaffection to social inclusion', and, for schools, 'Priority steps to inclusion - addressing underachievement, truancy and exclusion at Key Stages 3 & 4'. He created and developed the 'Youth Achievement Awards' as a national peer education accreditation scheme (see johnhuskins.com).
He has been a Trustee of Bread since 2005 and Vice Chair since July 2006.
Ben Kushner, Treasurer
Ben is an experienced chartered accountant, with over thirty years experience in the commercial sector. Having recently taken early retirement after a long career with Lloyds-TSB Bank, Ben now works part time as Head of Finance for a Hospice in the Cotswolds.
He was appointed a trustee and Treasurer of Bread in July 2005. Ben is keen to ensure that Bread exercises an excellent standard of financial control throughout the organization, and provides effective management information. He tries to bring the benefit of some of the experience he has gained in the commercial sector to Bread, whilst at the same time enjoying the ethos of Bread, and the excellence of the schemes it runs.
As well as undertaking other voluntary roles, Ben also enjoys playing tennis and golf, walking, running his old sports car and spending time with his wife and two sons.
Marina O'Brien, Trustee
Marina is a Supported Housing Project Worker in a Residential Mother and Baby Unit for young mothers aged 16-25. She has worked in the housing, support and education fields for a number of years and has also previously worked as a Community Artist with various disadvantaged groups in a social context. Marina is passionate about young people having access to meaningful, educational, fun activities that provide the young people with a platform to get their voices heard and be part of a process that is positive and potentially life changing.
Marina has said if just a handful of the disaffected disillusioned young people she has worked with in the past had been aware of the opportunities available to them through Bread their journey to a more stable positive way of living that only comes about through having a real sense of purpose and self esteem would have been much shorter.
Marina is passionate about the work that Bread delivers and the passion with which it is delivered is so refreshing, there are so many groups offering opportunities for young people that come and go but Bread has triumphed and is a organisation that she is proud to be a part of. Marina is one of the V Project representatives with Noelle.
Noelle Rumball, Trustee
Noelle works in the arena of business performance management, with a background in information storage, retrieval, analysis, and presentation, as well as some limited system design. She is currently working for the Natural Environment Research Council, where she is helping to orchestrate a simultaneous systems and culture change in business performance management, to result in better informed management decisions. As this is such a simple job, Noelle is hoping to facilitate a similar result at Bread on evenings and weekends! Noelle is also one of two MC representatives for the V Project.
This is Noelle's first experience in either youth or voluntary sector, and she became a trustee in September 2007.
Lee Shaw, HR Advisor
Lee has spent the last 5 years working in Human Resources at Lloyds TSB Group. Lee 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.