Governance structure and Board membership – 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021
Contents
- Welcome from the Chair
- Different thinking for a different world
- Safety first
- Our purpose and method
- Vision and strategic objectives
- Skills for Life: Our plan to prepare better futures 2018–2025
- Growth
- Inclusivity
- Youth Shaped
- Community Impact
- Three pillars of work
- Programme
- People
- Perception
- Theory of Change
- Theory of Change (diagram)
- The impact of Scouts on young people
- Our finances
- Trustees’ responsibilities
- Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of The Scout Association
- Consolidated statement of financial activities
- Balance sheet
- Statements of cash flows
- Our members
- How we operate
- Governance structure and Board membership – 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021
- Our advisers
- Our thanks
- Investors in People
Governance structure and Board membership – 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021
Founder
Robert Baden-Powell, OM,
First Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell
Patron
Her Majesty The Queen
Presidents
His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent,
KG, GCMG, GCVO
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge
Vice Presidents
The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Airlie, KT,
GCVO, PC
John Beresford CBE
(deceased December 2020)
Wayne Bulpitt CBE
Peter Duncan
George Purdy CBE
Chief Scout
Lt Col (Hon) Bear Grylls RM OBE
The Board of Trustees
The percentages indicate the number
of eligible Board meetings each
member attended.
1 = Finance Committee Member
2 = Strategy and Delivery
Committee Member
3 = Nominations and Governance
Committee Member
4 = People and Culture
Committee Member
5 = Safeguarding
Committee Member
6 = Safety Committee Member
The below Committees disbanded September 2020
7 = Risk Committee Member
8 = Operations Committee Member
Trustees (voting)
Mike Ashley (100%) 1, 4
Treasurer (from September 2020)
Gordon Boyd (100%) 1, 4
Treasurer (until September 2020)
David Branagh (75%) 1, 7
Craig Dewar-Willox (100%)5
Nicola Gamlen (75%) 1, 3
Graham Haddock (100%) 3
Sue Harris (100%) 5,8
(until September 2020)
Gareth Jones (100%) 3, 7, 8
Dr Ann Limb CBE DL, (100%) 3
Chair of the Board
Ella MacLeod (100%) 1
(from September 2020)
Matt Mills (100%) 3, 7
Vice Chair of the Board (until
September 2020)
Kieron Moir (100%) 2, 6, 8
Vice Chair of the Board (from
September 2020)
Peter Oliver (100%) 2
(from September 2020)
Caroline Pearce (100%) 4
Ashley Russell (100%) 3
(until September 2020)
Lexie Sims (50%) 4
David Sandall (100%) 5
Jane Simpson (100%) 6
Busola Sodeinde (100%) 1, 4
(co-opted from March 2020)
Liz Walker (100%) 3
(from September 2020)
Rhiannon Wells (100%)3, 8
Michael Wood-Williams (100%) 1, 7
Ollie Wood (100%) 2, 3, 8
UK Youth Commissioner
Tim Kidd OBE (100%) 2, 3, 8
UK Chief Commissioner
Matt Hyde OBE (100%) 2, 3
Chief Executive
Right of attendance (non-voting)
The Chief Scout, the Deputy Chief Scout, the International Commissioner, any Country/Regional/ County/Area Commissioner or Chair and
Chief Commissioner
Invited to attend (non-voting)
David Hamilton
Director of Communications and Marketing (until March 2020)
Dominic Nutt
Interim Director of Communications
and Marketing
(from March–September 2020)
Chloe Kembery 2
Director of Communications
and Marketing
(from September 2020)
Mark Hislop 2
Director of Commercial Services
Ross Maloney 2, 8
Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer
Yvonne Smithers 1
Chief Financial Officer
(until July 2020)
Kris Murali 1, 2
Director of Finance and Resources
(from June 2020)
Margaret Giles 7
Company Secretary
In addition to its Trustee members as indicated above, each Board Committee, except the Nominations and Governance Committee, has one or more non-Trustee members appointed for their specialist skills and at least one member who’s under the age of 25 years.