Board of Trustees
Bill Huxley
Chair of Trustees
Bill first involvement with RHM was in 2004 following a trip to Romania with his wife Valerie. Such was the impact of the plight of the poor in Eastern Europe Bill volunteered 3 months of his time in supporting its founder. That 3 months turned into years after he and Valerie moved home to the west country to engage with the fight against poverty on a permanent basis. Since then he has served in a variety of volunteer roles including an 18 month spell leading RHM as Managing Trustee and now currently in the support role as Chair of Trustees.
Formerly Bill worked in a number of executive positions for blue chip companies and retired as Managing Director after a long and successful career in the Electronic Security Industry. Not one for standing still Bill has undertaken intensive training in Therapeutic Counselling and life-coaching and continued following his mission with RHM. Bill’s day job is Counselling, a therapist working as an inner city practitioner and he enjoys working with young people some of whom are the most vunerable in our society. Visit www.destinylifecounselling.co.uk
Kirsten Ottley
Company Secretary
Kirsten first joined Robin Hood Ministries in February 2006 as Operations and Finance Manager. An associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, she brings valuable expertise to our financial planning and management. Apart from her role as Company Secretary, Kirsten works closely with Val Huxley as CFO on all financial aspects of the charity.
Alastair Page
Business Owner and Social Entrepreneur
Alastair is a qualified and experienced engineer, teacher and business man. He has degrees in each from Bristol University, Oxford University and London Business School respectively. He has extensive experience creating, building, buying and selling small businesses.
Most recently he founded Grangeside Business Support Centre with his brother-in-law providing Serviced Offices and business support services based in Hilperton. He is owner and Finance Director of the business. Alastair currently is working as a freelance consultant advising and supporting a number of small companies and charities in growth and change management. Visit www.gsbc-ltd.com
Karen Ramirez
Business Owner and Public Relations Expert
Karen Ramírez is Managing Director of Lingo, a communications agency. She has over 10 years’ PR and marketing experience – extensively in digital marketing. Clients come from a number of sectors, but Lingo has a particular focus on travel, tourism, leisure and hospitality.
Karen is passionate about effective communications, and works closely with clients and other organisations with which she is involved to help them meet their goals.
In addition to setting up Lingo, Karen is both Director and Vice Chair of the Association of Women Travel Executives and has been instrumental in turning the organisation around from a loss to profit-making situation during her tenure as Treasurer. Visit www.lingo-oms.com
Wayne McMaster
Business owner, Design Expert
Wayne is a qualified Chartered Designer with a degree in Graphic Design from Northumbria University. He has more than ten years experience working in the design industry. Having started his career for Agenda Design Associates with clients like The Slug and Lettuce and the Science Museum, before moving onto the large branding consultancy Smith and Milton, being involved with projects for AXA, Coca-Cola and Lloyds Pharmacy. He founded studiohope in 2002, a design agency to help create, develop and manage small business and charity brands, through print and web channels. Visit www.studiohope.co.uk
Married to Tamsin with three children he is active in his community and local church, Holy Trinity, Combe Down, especially as part of the worship team on percussion. When he isn’t playing his bongoes or growing his hair for charity Wayne enjoys nothing more than getting his hands dirty in the garden.
Neil Donovan
Business Owner and Direct Sales expert
Following a career within the military where Neil predominantly trained and led teams through hostile situations including the first Gulf war, Bosnia and Northern Ireland, he decided to settle in Bath. He had fallen in love with the city, not least because of its closeness to his main passion, rugby. After cutting his teeth with leading media companies he was head hunted to build a sales team for Norwich Union to launch a brand new property portal selling directly to the real estate world. Leaving Norwich Union to set up his own business Spinnakersales.com Neil became passionate about generating a new standard in sales that would lead the field. This new standard – ‘The Spinnaker Way’ would achieve financially rewarding solutions for all involved. Spinnaker was launched in November 2003 as there was an obvious gap in the market. Visit www.spinnakersales.com
Carl Wills
Church Leader and high worth networker
Carl has been in the Prophetic Ministry since 1993. He has ministered in Canada, USA, Europe, Africa and most recently in South Africa. Having had a short period back in employment Carl became itinerant again in September 2008. His heart is to see the prophetic encourage individuals, leadership teams and churches. Carl’s is a very personal ministry – he loves Christ’s church. Over the years he has been greatly used by God to bring the ‘now’ word of the Lord into many otherwise locked church and individual situations.
