Chairman
Paul Shotton BA(Hons)

Paul is a senior manager for a London borough council. He has worked in housing organisations for 34 years including 10 years in housing advocacy. Paul is experienced in performance monitoring and related IT systems.

Treasurer
Stephen Foster BSc PhD ACA

Stephen has been a chartered accountant in practice since 1990. He is the principal in his own general practice employing 7 staff members. Wide variety of clients from small sole traders to large million pound turnover companies. Also has a small number of charities as clients. He is also the Treasurer of two other charities.

Secretary
Derrik Copeland FCIS

Derrik was the Company Secretary with BP in Zimbabwe. He remains a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators. Derrik is married with two grown up married daughters and five grandchildren. He is an active member of his local church, a member of a walking group and member of the Probus Club of Westbury and District. His other interests include cooking and travel.

Member
Maggi Bader MA MBA

Maggi has a BA Degree in Sociology and post graduate degree in Management. She has been the Director of Charitable Company since 1987 with a client group for enduring mental health and complex needs (Care in the Community). Maggi is extensively travelled. Prior to her involvement in the 3rd sector, Maggi was an experienced teacher/manager at a bilingual school for 14 years. She was also a Social Worker for 10 years. Maggi also served for 10 years as a member of the Community Health Council and is a trustee for three other charities.

Member
Rev Chris Brown

Chris was born in Hampshire and is a non-residentiary Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. He trained for the ordained ministry of the Church of England at Durham and Salisbury and has been the rector of St James Parish Church since 1988. Chris is married with
one son, one daughter and one granddaughter. His wife, Julie, is a retired nurse. As a rector Chris is involved with several local trusts and charities. His interests include history and amateur dramatics and he has a great love for people particularly those experiencing disadvantage and hardship. He has a passion for justice, mercy and freedom and has a wonderful sense of humour. Chris dislikes ‘hatred, malice and all uncharitableness’. Chris retired in the Spring of 2009, when he will have more time to support the work of Splitz.

Member
Penny Cannings

Penny spent her working life between being a telephonist (GPO trained in 1964!!) and accountancy work. Her last work was Adminstrator at Splitz covering maternity leave for a few months.Penny has an adult son and enjoys a wide varierty of hobbies and interests ranging from gardening & crosswords to arts and crafts. She is now retired and living in Trowbridge. Penny is very aware of the needs of lone parents particularly those with experience of domestic violence and abuse and feels that her contribution to the trustee board is valuable and relevant.

Member
Fiona Culham

Fiona has previous experience of ‘parenting alone’ and has raised four children; one of whom has special needs. Fiona lives in a small village just outside of the county town and is involved proactively with village life. She spends a great deal of time having meetings with the education department in her attempts to sort out the right education for her son. She has worked within the social care setting for over 15 years, promoting individuals with learning disabilities to have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. She is familiar with the challenges this can bring both professionally and personally due to the learning disability of her son. She is married and lives on a smallholding where she thoroughly enjoys breeding poultry and walking her dogs.

Member
Jeremy Edmunds JP

Jeremy was born in East Africa and attended school in Tanzania and the UK. After being awarded a law degree and masters from Dundee university Jeremy entered the insurance industry. In 1989 Jeremy bought his own insurance brokerage which he continues to manage. He was a parish councillor, Chairman of the village hall committee and governor of Studley Green Primary School in Trowbridge. In 1998 he became a magistrate and is a member of the Family Court panel. In his spare time Jeremy is a big fan of sport, especially rugby, but not golf.

Member
Cindy Ervine LLB

Cindy has been practicing as a solicitor specialising in family law since 1996. She is a member of the Domestic Violence Forum, Chippenham Contact Centre, and the Law Society Family Law Panel. Cindy also loves cooking, yoga and swimming in her spare time.

Member
Sheila Kimmins JP

Sheila is married with 2 grown up children and two grand-children. For the past 23 years Sheila has run her own Boarding Cattery and Animal Feed Supplies business. In 1995 she joined the West Wiltshire Bench as a Magistrate; and is currently a Bench Chairman, Chairman of the Family Panel and Mentor Coordinator responsible for new magistrates joining the Bench. Sheila enjoys walking, handicrafts and local interests.

Member
Rosie MacGregor

Rosie has experience as a Town Planner working in Local Government and previously in the private sector for more than 30 years, during which time she has been actively involved in the Trade Union movement. She was for many years on the advisory panel for Civic Trust Awards in Wiltshire and was South West Regional Convenor for UNISON. She is currenlty Chair of the Wiltshire UNISON branch, Co-Chair of South West Provincial Council and sits on the South West Regional TUC. Her hobbies include writing a weekly column in the Bath Chronicle on world music, and she is also a folk singer who regularly plays in clubs, concerts and festivals throughout the UK.

Member
Cllr Janet Repton

Janet taught art and design and art history for 31 years as Head of
Art department for Inner London Education schools. Janet has served as a local Town and District Councillor for 18 years, serving as Mayor of Bradford on Avon from 2001 to 2003. As a councillor Janet has a keen interest in the environment, planning and housing. With the formation of a unitary council in Wiltshire Janet stood down as a district councillor but remains a town councillor for Bradford on Avon.

Member
Barbara Taylor

Barbara is a Litigation Executive with a firm of local solicitors, and has specialised in family law for over 25 years. She has previous experience as a trustee of a local women’s refuge and is currently a member of the local Domestic Violence Forum. She is experienced in working with people suffering family breakdown including separation, divorce, domestic violence injunctions, children’s issues (contact and residency) and the financial effects of relationships ending. She has built good relationships with a number of outside agencies, local charitable providers and statutory services.