Deputy Patrons
The Lord Kirkham CVO
Lord Graham Kirkham founded DFS Furniture Company plc in 1969, in a disused billiard hall in Carcroft. It now has 75 stores nationwide. Graham is the Executive Chairman and his family has a 100% shareholding.
Graham was honoured with a Knighthood in 1995 and was elevated to the peerage in July 1999. He received the CVO in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2001.
He was made an Honorary Member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1995, an Honorary Fellow of the Animal Health Trust in 1997 and was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Bradford University in 1997. He received the Yorkshire Television accolade of 'Yorkshire Man of the Year' in November 2004.
Graham is married and has two children and five grandchildren. He became a Trustee in 1995. He is actively involved with many charities other than The Outward Bound Trust, including The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Sceme, The Animal Health Trust and The Blue Cross.
Sir Chris Bonington CVO, CBE
Britain's best-known mountaineer, Sir Chris Bonington has led and been on 19 Himalayan expeditions, including four to Everest, which he climbed in 1985 at the age of 50, and has made many first ascents in The Alps and greater ranges of the world. He is also the author of 14 books and has presented and appeared in many relevant television programmes.
Amongst others roles, he is Chancellor of Lancaster University, President of LEPRA, President of the British Orienteering Federation, Vice President of the Youth Hostels Association and Life Vice President of the Council for National Parks. Sir Chris was a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust from 1997 to 2009. In 2009 he was appointed Deputy Patron.
Trustees
Iain Peter
Iain Peter is a qualified Mountain Guide with over 30 years of mountaineering experience. He has climbed and explored in many of the world’s key mountain ranges and has made many significant ascents including Eiger North Face, Cerro Torre, Choy Oyu and Gasherbrum 2.
He has worked in the outdoors for most of his working life; firstly as a guide and instructor at Glenmore Lodge in Scotland and the International School of Mountaineering in Leysin, Switzerland. He was executive Secretary of Mountain Leader Training UK with responsibility for all mountaineering training and qualifications in the UK for 5 years.
From 1997 until 2006 he was Chief Executive of the Mountain Training Trust, a groundbreaking Charity which managed Plas y Brenin National Mountain Centre (in Snowdonia) on behalf of Sport England.
He is now a Director of Adventure Activity Associates Ltd and lives in Kingussie in the Scottish highlands.
Iain was appointed a trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in December 2006. He also chairs The Trust's Operational Risk Management Committee.
Ian Gowrie-Smith
Ian Gowrie-Smith was born in Australia and educated at Geelong Grammar and Melbourne University. His business career has focused on investing in opportunities in the private sector and then taking them to the public markets. Ian Gowrie-Smith moved to the UK in 1987 and is best known for having founded and chaired two listed companies in the pharmaceutical sector, Medeva PLC and Skyepharma PLC.
More recently his focus has returned to the mining, and oil and gas sectors, with exploration and production activities in Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and Zambia, through listed companies Triple Plate Junction PLC and Rift Oil PLC.
Ian was appointed a trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in September 2007.
John Spurling OBE
John Spurling's business interests include an advertising agency in East Africa and an insurance company in the UK.
John is a Trustee and Hon. Treasurer of The Animal Health Trust and Vice President of The Kennel Club Charitable Trust. He is also a Director of the National Coaching Foundation and of The London Marathon.
John was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in November 1999.
Peter Neumark
Peter Neumark is a Lancashire-born businessman. He has a variety of business interests but is best known for having started Target Express Parcels.
Today he has a wide range of interests, including the restoration company, Classic Motor Cars Limited, which he started twelve years ago as a hobby, and which has grown into one of the largest jaguar restoration companies in the world and has an international reputation for its work.
In addition, Peter also has extensive property interests and has been involved with various charities. He is an enthusiastic but average golfer but his main hobby and pastime is racing his extensive collection of historic sports cars and grand prix cars.
Peter was appointed a Trustee in October 2000.
David Hopkins
David Hopkins is the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, where he supports the work of iNet, the International arm of the Specialist Schools Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Professor of Education, Head of the School, and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. Before that again he was a Tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Education, a Secondary School teacher and Outward Bound® Instructor. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. Before becoming a civil servant he outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, London: Routledge / Falmer. His new book Every School a Great School has recently been be published by the Open University Press.
David was appointed a trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in April 2008.
Nigel Buchanan FCA
Nigel Buchanan joined Price Waterhouse in 1968 and became a Partner in 1978. He retired from the partnership (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in 2001. For a time, he led Price Waterhouse's financial services practice across Europe and looked after a number of the firm's major clients.
Nigel is currently a non-executive director of Amlin plc and Butterfield Bank (UK) Ltd. He is a member of the Finance Committee of University College, London.
Nigel is married and has three grown-up children. He is a member of the Board of Outward Bound® International and was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in July 2001.
Kate Hoey MP
Kate Hoey has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Vauxhall since a by-election in 1989.
Kate was born and brought up in Northern Ireland and attended the Ulster College of Physical Education before taking an Economics degree in London.
She has always been very interested in sport and was once the Northern Ireland High Jump Champion. She has worked for a number of football clubs including Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers, Chelsea and Brentford, as Educational Advisor.
Kate was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Frank Field, the Minister for Welfare Reform, after the election of the Labour Government in 1997. In July 1998 she was appointed as a Minister in the Home Office before becoming Sports Minister in 1999, a position she held until the 2001 General Election.
She is very interested in foreign affairs, visiting Sarajevo at the height of the siege and monitoring the first democratic elections in Angola.
Kate was appointed a Trustee in October 2002.
Ffion Hague
Ffion Hague graduated from Jesus College, Oxford University with a BA in English Literature and the University of Wales with an MPhil in Welsh Literature. She then spent six years in the Civil Service, joining the Welsh office in 1991 as a fast stream civil servant and leaving in 1997 from the post of Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Wales. For two and a half years, she was a Director of Arts & Business, a national business charity. She spent two of those years as Director of Operations, and was latterly Director of Policy and Planning.
Since 2000, Ffion has been a headhunter at board level across all sectors, and was a director of Hanson Green, a top-level non-executive search company, between 2003 and 2008. She currently freelances as a headhunter, mentor and board evaluator. Ffion has maintained her interest in literature and history and her first book was published in June 2008. The Pain and the Privilege is a biography of the women in Lloyd George's life and was published by Harper Collins.
Ffion has been a Director of the British Council, The Voices Foundation, Action on Addiction and the Woburn Centre for Conservation and Education. She is also a member of the LSO Advisory Board and the WNO Development Circle. Ffion joined the Barclays Wealth Advisory Board in 2007.
Ffion was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in October 2002.
Eric Worrall CVO
Eric Worrall is a trained schoolteacher who formerly taught in London comprehensives and for 10 years was a Youth and Education Officer in Kent.
From 1986 to 1998 Eric was Deputy Director of both The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and The Outward Bound Trust. During this time he was instrumental in founding the 'Charter for Business' group, consisting of more than 100 companies throughout the UK providing financial support to The Duke of Edinburgh's Award. Eric has been actively involved in fundraising for both organisations.
In 1998 Eric was appointed Commander of the Victorian Order and from that date moved to become consultant to The International Foundation of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, The Award itself, and fundraising consultant to The Outward Bound Trust.
He was appointed as a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in April 2006.
Dick Watson
Dick Watson was born in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. He graduated in 1963 with a BSc in Civil Engineering and qualified as a Chartered Engineer. He is also a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Dick started his career with Taylor Woodrow. In 1971 he joined Terry Bramall at Bramall & Ogden, and the two of them went on to form Keepmoat in 1986, which went onto become one of the UK’s leading regeneration and social housing specialists. Keepmoat has developed a programme whereby the company selects pupils from schools in its catchment area to take part in a week’s course at our Ullswater centre. Pupils who demonstrate great potential are offered apprenticeships within Keepmoat. In addition, the company provided very generous in-kind support in 2006 by refurbishing residential facilities at our Ullswater centre.
Dick remained with Keepmoat for 36 years. He retired from the company in August 2007 following a management buy-out when Dick and Terry sold their respective stakes in the company.
Dick lives in Tickhill, near Doncaster. He is also Vice Chairman of Doncaster Rovers Football Club and likes to holiday in Scotland at his second home, near Perth. He has recently told us that in retirement his three main passions will be his family, his football club and Outward Bound®.
Dick was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in July 2008.
Rod Carr CBE
Rod has a Geology degree from Birmingham University but his passion for sailing took him to an urban sailing centre in North London and then to the National Sailing Centre in Cowes in 1975, where he became chief instructor four years later. His reputation for motivating and encouraging people led to his recruitment as Crew Boss for the 1981 Admirals Cup campaign.
Rod’s talents came to the attention of the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) in the early 1980s and they appointed him to coach the Olympic team for the Los Angeles games in 1984. He went on to coach the teams for the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics in 1988 and 1992 before being appointed overall team manager for the Atlanta games in 1996. He was appointed RYA Racing Manager and Performance Director in 1997. Rod was the architect of the RYA World Class Performance programme for sailing that has successfully attracted vital funds from the National Lottery to the sport and was asked by the BOA to be Deputy Chef de Mission for the whole of Team GB at the Sydney Olympics. Rod was appointed as the RYA’s Chief Executive in December 2000 and will retire from this post in 2010.
Rod serves on the UK Sport Board, UK Sport Mission 2012 Panel and the British Olympic Association National Olympic Committee. He was awarded an OBE for services to sailing 2005.
Rod was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in December 2009.
Murray Lloyd
Murray Lloyd graduated with a degree in Combined Studies and went on to work for Read Commercial in 1997. Three years later, he moved on to become Head of Business Space for Stiles Harold Williams, before taking up his current role as a Strategic Development and Regeneration Consultant at DTZ, to which he brings 17 years of experience in the property industry. Murray is also a member of DTZ's graduate selection committee and is a regular conference speaker on key regeneration topics. In his spare time he enjoys coaching junior rugby as well as cycling, sailing and canoeing.
Murray was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in 2010.
Nicholas Buckworth
Born in Glasgow, Nicholas attended Dollar Academy before graduating from Dundee University with a degree in Law. In 1984, he began his career as a lawyer at Clifford Chance, where he remained for 12 years, during which time he lived in Singapore and Hong Kong. Following this, Nicholas became a partner with Milbank Tweed and in 1998 joined Shearman & Sterling, taking up the role of Global Head of the firm’s Energy Group, in which he specialises in emerging market project finance. He is also co-head of the Shearman & Sterling Middle East and North Africa Group.
Away from work, Nicholas is a passionate skier and horse rider. He enjoys spending time in the outdoors, doing anything from climbing to mountaineering to simply walking the dog. His latest hobby involves being a frontman for a rockband! Nicholas is married and has three children.
He was appointed a trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in 2010.
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