The Prince's Trust Council
The Prince’s Trust Council is accountable
in law for the work of The Trust. It sets the strategy and
agrees The Trust’s business plan and budget and has authority to
take all decisions and to set all policy.
Chairman: Charles Dunstone
Charles joined The Council in 2000 and became Chairman of
Prince's Trust in June 2009. At age 25, he set up The Carphone
Warehouse with an investment of £6,000 and has since built it into
Europe's largest independent retailer of mobile communications.
He has been key to the development of many fundraising
activities and events including Fashion Rocks and The Prince's
Trust’s 30th Birthday concert at the Tower of London in 2006.
Charles is also Chairman of The Prince's Trust Enterprise
Fellowship.
Patrick Passley
Patrick joined The Council in 2001 and is Managing Director of
the Paralegal Charity. He is the former National Amateur Boxing
Super-heavyweight Champion and represented Great Britain at the
Commonwealth Games. He served as Commissioner for Racial Equality
(1999-2003), Special Adviser to the Chair of the Commission for
Racial Equality (2003-2004).
Heather Hancock
Heather joined The Trust in 2000 as Chairman of our Council for
Yorkshire and The Humber and joined The Council in October 2001.
Now a partner at Deloitte, she was the first Chief Executive of The
Millennium Commission and Chief Executive of the Yorkshire Dales
National Park Authority.
Michael Marks CBE
Michael is founding partner of NewSmith Capital Partners LLP. He
joined the Council in early 2004 after retiring as Chairman of
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Michael started his career with
Smith Bros in 1958 and was appointed a director there in 1975. He
became Chief Executive of Smith New Court in 1987 and Executive
Chairman 1995.
Diane Louise Jordan
Diane is a television and radio presenter and is a director of
Chronicle21, a corporate motivational company. For Chronicle21, her
clients have included Microsoft, Marks and Spencer plc and The
Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Diane has many charitable
commitments. Among these, she is a Vice President of NCH and a
trustee of BBC Children in Need.
Simon Fuller
Simon is best known as the manager of The Spice Girls, S Club 7
and David Beckham, as well as being the creator of the Pop Idol
series. He remains Chief Executive of 19 Entertainment, a company
he established in the mid 1980s, following a career with Chrysalis.
Simon has been an active supporter of The Trust for some years.
Lloyd Dorfman CBE
Lloyd is the Founder and Chairman of the Travelex
Group, the world’s largest foreign exchange and business payments
specialist.
In 2001 Lloyd Dorfman was the winner of the Consumer Business
Category in the UK “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards sponsored by
Ernst & Young, Citibank and The Times. In 2002 he received the
British American Chamber of Commerce’s UK Entrepreneurial Award,
and the Institute of Economic Affairs’ Free Enterprise Award. He is
a Non-Executive Director of M & C Saatchi plc, Deputy Chairman
of Quest Ltd, a Governor of St Paul’s School, London, Chairman of
The Roundhouse, a Director of the Royal National Theatre, and an
Honorary Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford.
Ajaz Ahmed
Ajaz is the Chairman of AKQA, a company that provides integrated
e-business systems, digital products. Ajaz has won the Forbes Media
Innovator of the Year award, is a Reviewer for the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and the Sloan School of Management, an
International Advisor for China Advertising and co-authored
the book ‘Made in AKQA: Ideas Volume 1’. He received an
honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University and was a mentor
for Said Business School, University of Oxford. He has been
appointed to the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and
was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society for the encouragement of
Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. Ajaz is an Enterprise
Fellow of The Prince’s Trust.
Sir Ken Knight CBE QFSM DL
Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser (October
2007)
Sir Ken Knight has been a key player in the UK Fire and
Rescue Service for many years, leading the service through
significant change. He was the national principal adviser on Fire
and Rescue Service matters to the Local Government Association
(LGA) and a Board member of the Chief Fire Officers' Association
(CFOA) Sir Ken was awarded the Queen's Fire Service Medal in 1991,
the CBE in 2001, the Order of St John in 2005 and was appointed one
of Her Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants of Greater London in May 2006.
Sir Ken was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours the same year
in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the fire and
rescue service. Sir Ken is the first Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser
following the creation of the office in October 2007.
Martin Pilgrim
Martin retired from the London Councils in the spring of 2007,
after nearly 10 years as Chief Executive and after more than 38
years in local government service. He joined the Association of
London Government in 1997 and managed the merger of a number of
London-wide borough bodies to form the London Councils. He is
currently the Chairman of the London Sustainability
Exchange, a director of Film London and Honorary
Treasurer and a trustee of the Daycare Trust. He also undertakes
consultancy work and in the past year has worked with public
affairs companies, financial services and the security industry.
Martin chairs the London Regional Council of The Prince’s
Trust.
Peter Cruddas
Peter established CMC
Markets in 1989, a company
now considered a global leader in online financial
trading. Originally focusing
on Foreign Exchange, the company now handles around six
million trades annually with an average value of $2 billion per
business day across its full CFD product range (including Foreign
Exchange and Financial Spread Betting). With offices in London, New
York, Frankfurt, Sydney, Toronto, Beijing and Hong Kong, CMC
Markets supports clients from over 100 countries.
Steve Thomas
Steve has been Chief Executive of the Welsh Local Government
since March 2004, after being Head of Policy, Best Value &
Central Service at Caerphilly CBC and a career in local
government. He is Joint Secretary of the statutory Partnership
Council between the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Local
Government Association and sits on a range of national bodies
including the Wales Resilience Forum, the Consultative Forum on
Finance, and the Public Services Board for Wales. Steve also chairs
new boards for the National Service Frameworks for Children and
Older People and is Company Secretary of the Local Government
Data Unit Wales Board.
Sir Nigel Hamilton KCB
Sir Nigel was formerly Head of
the NI Civil Service prior to his retirement in June 2008.
He joined the Civil Service in 1970 and worked in the former
Department of the Environment (DOE), on roads, transport, water,
housing and local authority policies. In 1987 he transferred to
Central Secretariat where he became the first Director of "Making
Belfast Work" and was also involved in the development of community
relations policies. He became Permanent Secretary in the Department
of Education on 6 July 1998 and in July 2001 moved to become
Permanent Secretary at the Department for Regional Development. He
was appointed Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service
in 1 October 2002.
In this role he led 29,000 civil servants
and was the most senior adviser to the First and the Deputy First
Ministers.