Emmaus UK Board Members (Trustees)

Jim Caldwell
Jim was co-opted onto the Emmaus UK Board on 9 December 2010 to enhance HR expertise at Board level. Before his retirement from full time employment, Jim enjoyed a successful career as an HR professional, culminating with a senior HR role in a major international chemical company. Since 2006 he has become involved in a number of voluntary activities, primarily advising Third Sector organisations on change management and HR management. He is a Director of a local charity and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Emmaus Preston.

Alain Capmas
Councillor of Emmaus International.

Mathieu Delarue
Mathieu was elected to the Board on 26 March 2009. He has been involved with the Emmaus movement since 1995 when he joined Emmaus Cambridge as a Companion. In 2004, he was appointed Community Leader of Emmaus Brighton and Hove. He represented Emmaus in the UK as National Delegate for the old Centre-South region of Emmaus International and helped set the statutes for the Emmaus Europe Region, which was established in 2005.

Simon Grainge
Simon was first involved with Emmaus in 2001 when he was employed as the National Training Officer in the Emmaus Federation Office. He went on to become the Development Manager as well as serving as a trustee of Emmaus Gloucester in 2003. In 2005, he left Emmaus to manage a homelessness charity in the West Country. After a period working in Nepal and Pakistan with international NGO’s he returned to the UK in 2009 to take over the running of the Cambridge Community. He is a Councillor of Emmaus International. Simon was elected to the Emmaus UK Board on 9 December 2010.

Michael Heap
Michael was elected to the Board of Emmaus UK on 8 December 2011. He has extensive management experience in both the public, private and voluntary sectors, particularly in social care, mental health and housing. He was appointed a trustee of Emmaus Gloucestershire in August 2009 and Chair in December 2009.

Dermot Lamb
Dermot was elected to the Board of Emmaus UK on 8 December 2011. Since joining Oxfam Scotland in 1988 he has held senior positions in the voluntary sector, specialising in retailing, marketing and fundraising. He retired as General Manager of Emmaus Glasgow in 2009 and has been a trustee since November 2010.

Maureen Margrie
Maureen is the Chief Executive of Emmaus Gloucestershire which she joined in 2007 following a successful career in the automotive industry in change and programme management. Maureen desired to put her organisational, change and business management skills to work to directly help disadvantaged people and was pleased to discover and become part of the Emmaus movement. She sits on the Emmaus UK Finance and Federation Committees and is active in several Federation-wide projects. Maureen was elected to the Emmaus UK Board on 9 December 2010.

John Noble - Chair
John was elected to the Board on 1 December 2006 and re-elected on 25 March 2010. John became a trustee of Emmaus Gloucestershire in May 2002 and was the Chair until 2009. He is a Trustee of Emmaus Bridgend and Emmaus Preston. He was elected Chair of the UK Board in February 2011.
After reading economics at LSE and becoming a Chartered Accountant, his career included advising and running companies with subsidiaries around the world and since 1992, advising Governments in Africa and Eastern Europe on restructuring, privatisation and regulation of public enterprises. John lives near Cheltenham, is married to Anne and has three daughters and three grandchildren. He is a school governor and serves on his parochial church council.

Don Pinchbeck
Don was co-opted to the Emmaus Federation Board in April 2009. He has experience at senior executive level with several multinational companies, has successfully led the re-organisation of several high-profile concerns, including Seiko Epson, the grant giving cycle and process of the National Lottery Charities Board, has worked as a Youth Leader and as Chair of HospiceCare North Northumberland. Don provides market research consultancy to several universities, and is a visiting lecturer at both Newcastle University and Edinburgh Business School. He conducts Due Diligence assignments for local venture capital companies and mentors young companies for the Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences. He is a Trustee of Emmaus Gateshead.

Don Simpson
Don joined the Group which established Emmaus Mossley in 1995. He has served two earlier terms on the Emmaus UK Board, is Chair of Emmaus Mossley and is a trustee of Emmaus Preston and of Emmaus Salford. He is also Secretary of the Emmaus North West Partnership. Don was Acting Director of Emmaus UK for 3 months in 2000. He has degrees in Electronic Engineering and Operational Research, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and a Certified Member of the Institute of Fundraising. His career, until entering semi-retirement in 2005, was mainly in the Local Authority housing service but he has also had spells as a university lecturer and as a housing consultant. He was a trustee of Shelter for several years. Don was elected to the Emmaus UK Board on 9 December 2010.

Christine Squince
Christine was elected to the Board on 25 March 2010. She joined Emmaus Brighton & Hove in December 2003 as Business Manager. She has many years of retail experience, having worked for a number of high street retailers but also as an Area Manager for Scope which has given her a good knowledge of charity retailing, an understanding of working with secondhand donated goods, with shop managers and also with volunteers.

Alison Thompson
Alison was elected to the Board of Emmaus UK on 8 December 2011. She originally came to Emmaus as a result of a ten-year period in a Day Centre for homeless, isolated and marginalised people in Winchester. Since 1998 she has dedicated herself to the establishment of a Community in Hampshire, and continues as a Chair of that Community which opened in 2009.

Keith Tolladay
Keith was co-opted to the Emmaus Federation Board in April 2009. He retired from the Civil Service in 2008 having been Director of Finance at the Cabinet Office and Deputy Chief Executive of Energywatch. His expertise is in strategic planning, organisation and finance. Keith is active in local charity work and, prior to being co-opted to the Emmaus Federation Board, has visited the Emmaus UK office in Cambridge and the Emmaus Village Carlton Community.

"I came to Emmaus at a critical point in my life and they were there for me. It became my home."