Trustees
Outline of Role of ILF Trustee
Main Duties
- To uphold the fiduciary duty invested in the position, undertaking such duties in a way that adds to public confidence and trust in the ILF.
- To act in good faith and in the best interest of the ILF and current and future ILF beneficiaries at all times.
- To control, monitor and regularly review finance and administration systems.
- To ensure that the ILF and its representatives comply with all relevant legislative and regulatory requirements and in line with the organisation’s governing documents, continually striving for best practice in governance.
- To be responsible for the overall direction and development of the ILF through good governance and clear strategic planning.
- To operate as a Board and determine and participate in any other arrangements which they determine in order to discharge their responsibilities.
- As a Board member collectively accept the ultimate legal authority for the governance of the ILF.
Main Responsibilities
- To develop the organisation’s aims, objectives and goals in association with the Chief Executive and other senior executives within the terms of the governing documents.
- To ensure sound management of the ILF’s resources and ensure expenditure is in line with the organisations’ objectives.
- To approve major capital expenditure and programme and service changes.
- To collectively ensure appropriate records relating to accounts and financial matters are maintained and audited accordingly.
- To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the administration of the ILF.
- To ensure that Trustees decisions are acted upon.
- To monitor the work and activities of the Chief Executive and other senior executives.
Current trustees
Stephen Jack (Chairperson from April 2007)
Stephen is a Chartered Accountant who has held senior management positions in a number of international financial services organisations. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Anchor Trust, England's largest provider of care and housing for older people, and a Trustee and the Treasurer of the Greater London Fund for the Blind
Professor Peter N C Cooke (Vice Chairperson from April 2006)
Peter is a Professor and Head of the Centre for Automotive Management at the University of Buckingham Business School. He is a consultant, speaker, writer and broadcaster on automotive and disability issues and was appointed a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow in 2002. He is a governor of Motability, the charity which oversees provision of cars for disabled people. Peter was a Non-Executive Director of Remploy for seven years.
Marie Martin (from October 2003)
Marie is currently a care manager for the British Nursing Association and Linden Hall Day Centre, lead for social care on Richmond Link, as well as a Trustee of the Hampton Fuel Trust. She has previously been a social services manager for Hounslow & Kingston Upon Thames, Chairman of the Shooting Star Children's Hospice and has also worked in the private sector.
Mike Boyall (from March 2005)
Mike is an ombudsman at the Financial Ombudsman Service and a qualified accountant. He was formerly a Deputy Director in the DTI and Official Receiver in the Insolvency Service, managing and investigating Public Interest Insolvencies. He is also a Magistrate.
Sally Sparrow (from April 2006)
Sally was Director of Social Care at Witham Braintree and Halstead Care Trust until March 2007. She is a qualified social worker and previously worked in social care and the voluntary sector in a variety of posts with older people and those with physical and sensory impairments.
Yogi Amin (from April 2007)
Yogi is a solicitor with specialism in Public Law and Human Rights. He is a partner at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors and practises in a range of health, social care and other public sector areas.
Susan Winterburn (from April 2007)
Susan is a qualified social worker. She was a senior lecturer in Health and Social Care, at York College of Further and Higher Education. She is a retired Director of Family Services at Family Fund Trust (a UK wide grant-making organisation) and has experience of grant-making criteria and developing/managing a dispersed self-employed social care workforce.