The Work-Life Balance Trust
An independant charity, with no political affiliations
WHO DID WHAT … TO HELP THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE TRUST
The Advisory Committee of the Work-Life Balance Trust has been working voluntarily since 1998, sometimes giving up holiday time to do so. In six years, not one person on the Committee has said 'no' to anything they have been asked to do, however tedious, however exhausting. What a wonderful bunch to work with!
The people involved were:
Shirley Conran OBE
Journalist; editor; novelist; designer
Founder President of the Work-Life Balance Trust
Lindsay Cook
Former Business Editor, The Times; former Director Express Newspapers
Trustee of the W-LB Trust.
Lindsay put in over 1,000 hours of unpaid work as Chair in 2002. She deserves major credit for the success of our second Work-Life Balance Week, in which two million people were involved.
Helen Whitten
CE Positiveworks; business psychologist and executive coach; international lecturer
Deputy Chair, The Work-Life Balance Trust Advisory Committee.
Helen is also responsible for all our self-help tools, such as manuals and CDs.
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Sandra Hepburn
Past Director of Production for ITV companies; non-executive director for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre; former Commissioner for Equal Opportunities Trustee of the Work-Life Balance Trust. Sandra is also responsible for Compliance, a nit-picking, unpopular, and very important job. Sandra's nickname is "Head Girl".
Janet Fitch
Jewellery consultant; designer; journalist; 11 years on the Board of Visitors HMP Pentonville, mother of six.
Trustee of the Work-Life Balance Trust.
Janet is also the events organiser for the Trust - a huge task.
Contact:
Email: janet@janetfitch.com
Jane Ashley
Chair of the Laura Ashley Foundation
Trustee of the Work-Life Balance Trust
Jane's experience of running her family charity has been invaluable to us. She is cautious, far-seeing and wise.
Jacqueline de Baer
Founder, de Baer plc, corporate clothing
Jacqueline is responsible for our fiscal research, liaising with the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Ernst & Young, who generously provided us with the fiscal argument for Child Tax Credits. While still breastfeeding her fourth child, Jacqueline, as Lady Godiva, rode on a white horse in a blonde wig and a nude bodystocking to deliver a petition for Childcare Tax Relief to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Contact:
de Baer plc
Rimac House
7 Langley Business Centre
Station Road
Langley
Berkshire SL3 8DS
Email: jdeb@dbaer.co.uk
Committee
Kathy Gilgunn
Private Caterer
Kathy prepares our inter-Committee working parties. She and her daughter Rikki organise staff on the ground at our conferences and during Work-Life Balance Week. Working with Kathy, I know that unexpected minor dramas will happen as usual, but that Kathy will deal with them.
Jacqui Graham Pelham
General Advisor
Publicity Director, Macmillan Books; design
Jacqui's experience of the media and publicity, and her gift for the Big Idea have been invaluable to our media campaigns.
Michelle Doughty
Stockbroker and financial journalist. Former CEO of the not-for-profit educational organisation, Proshare.
Michelle's business contacts and her knowledge of the business world and boardroom behaviour have proven extremely valuable.
Ruth Morris (Lady Morris of Kenwood)
Commercial law; politics
When we needed legal advice, Ruth gave it freely. She also provided delicious working lunches once a month for fifteen Committee members.
Elizabeth Harris (The Hon Mrs Jonathan Aitken)
CE Elizabeth Harris Associates; promotion; publicity
Elizabeth knows many influential people and has great experience of organising big events; the Trust benefited from all her contacts and experience.
Najma Kazi
Scientist; documentary film producer
Najma was responsible for our original research library and for producing yards of specific statistics when required at five minutes notice.
Anne-Marie Piper
A leading UK charity lawyer; Partner, Farrer & Co; also advisor to such charities as Parents at Work and NFPI
Legal and Charity advisor
Professor Andrew Samuels
Co-founder of Antidote. Professor of analytical psychology at the University of Essex and etcetera, through pages of CV.
Andrew's advice on our lectures programmes - where to hold them, who to invite to speak (and who not to) was also supplemented by his own carefully prepared speeches, whenever we asked him to make one. His warmth and commitment are as much appreciated as his time.
Carol Savage
MD of Flexecutive, a flexible working, recruitment and consultancy
Carol Savage runs her own recruitment consultancy, so is constantly in touch with the Sharp End. It was Carol alone who organised every aspect of the Workplace Initiative, which by 2003 involved over three million workers at their workplace. Carol worked directly with the relative HR directors to plan programmes for each workplace; she organised the planning meetings; she was responsible for all the necessary paper tools and posters. And she did this as well as running her own business, two young children and a baby.
Peter York
Chairman of Specialist Research Unit; writer; business sociologist; futures forecaster; author. His best known book is the Sloane Ranger handbook (co-authored with Ann Barr).
Peter, who in six years has never missed one of our meetings, was an original co-founder in 1998. Peter is invaluable as a planner of both strategy and tactics. He criticises so wittily and kindly, that no-one feels hurt, not even when he improves our ideas. He also writes our advertisements and edits our writing.
Consultants
Fiona McMorrough
Official PR for The Work-Life Balance Week 2003
CE of FMcM Associates; Publicity director for Bloomsbury and Virago; Publicity Manager, Hamish Hamilton
Fiona heads what is perhaps the most respected freelance PR organisation in the publishing industry. She also promotes causes that she believes in. We paid FMcM for their wonderful work, but they gave us rock-bottom rates and after one particularly expensive Work-Life Balance Week, Fiona volunteered to return 15% of her contracted price. Offer accepted. Her enthusiasm sparks off similar energy in her very efficient team, who work for the Trust far beyond their contractual obligations, and achieve stunning results.
Ruth Spellman
General Advisor
CE Investors In People UK
Ruth heads one of the biggest organisations in the Work-Life Balance sector, so we were lucky to have the benefit of her experience, her advice and her time, all of which were generously given.
Judith Frame
Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO
As executive of one of Britain's leading advertising firms, Judith's probing questions helped us to focus our aims and write our manifesto.
David Stuart
Founder of The Partners
The Partners designed our delightful and much copied logo.
Ernst & Young
Kindly provided important financial advice and also produced the financial facts that we needed to argue the case for Childcare Tax Credits with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Senior Partner Pat Billingham, was especially generous with her time and her powers of persuasion, and we, as well as the parents of Britain, owe her a great deal.
Mike Griffiths
Website designer and consultant
We are particularly grateful to Mike, our website consultant, for designing and inputting our website content, both swiftly and efficiently.
PRESIDENT: Shirley Conran OBE
TRUSTEES: Lindsay Cook Janet Fitch Sandra Hepburn
PATRONS: Gillian Ayres OBE The Baroness Brigstocke CBE Professor Petruska Clarkson Elaine Clifton
Professor Nigel Coates Jasper Conran Sebastian Conran Dr Dennis Friedman Kathy Gilgunn Richard E Grant
Felicity Green Hill Lady Irvine Lynda La Plante Prue Leith OBE Nonie Niesewand Sian Phillips
Mary Quant OBE Maureen Rice Professor Andrew Samuels Professor Jane Somerville Christopher Ward
Michael Wolff Peter York Jennifer d'Abo Girton College St. Paul's Girls' School William Morris Academy
W-LB Trust Charity Commission Registration No. 1088149
'Work-Life Balance Week is organised and run by W-LB Limited (Company No. 4154218) with the assistance of a media-based Advisory Committee. For projects which are charitable, the company receives financial and other assistance from Work-Life Balance Trust, registered charity no. 1088149'