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The Directory of Social Change, a registered charity (800517) and a company limited by guarantee (02320712), is governed by a Board of Trustees under the leadership of our Chief Executive, Debra Allcock Tyler.
Our Board of Trustees bring a wide range of experience from the public, private and voluntary sectors to the governance of DSC. The board is chaired by Nick Seddon.
We are always interested in expanding and diversifying our board. If you are interested in becoming a DSC Trustee please click here to view current vacancies.
Nick Seddon (Chair)
Nick is a freelance writer and journalist. He has written columns in Third Sector, been a social policy features writer for the Guardian and contributor to the Economist magazine.
His controversial 2007 book, "Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity", examines state funding of charities and how the independence and identity of the sector is being threatened. He is a speaker at various conferences, including Acevo annual conference.
A graduate of Cambridge University, Nick has been a research fellow at Civitas. As well as a particular interest in government and public services, he is involved in the arts and sport and is a keen cook. He is now the Deputy Director of independent thinktank Reform.
Simon Hill
Simon is a Senior Investment Consultant with a global pension fund consulting firm.
He has over 30 years experience of investment - most recently advising charities - as well as product development, business strategy, consultancy, marketing and training. He was a member of the Charity Finance Directors Group working party on charity pensions.
Simon has served as Chairman or Treasurer of a number of small voluntary organisations.
Margaret Lloyd
Margaret is a founder director of Walking With Leaders, a coaching consultancy specialising in coach training, leadership development, performance coaching and strategic change.
She lectures at Leadership programmes across the public and private sector.
She also coaches and mentors Directors and CEOs on a 1:1 basis.
Colin Nee
Colin is an independent consultant specialising in charity evaluation, strategy and interim management. He has been chief executive of three national charities, including Charities Evaluation Services from 2001-9.
Colin is currently interim executive director of Reprieve, which uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners on death row, in Guantánamo Bay and secret prisons across the world.
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Pamela Dow
Pamela is an Adviser to the Department for Education. A civil servant since 2007, in her previous career as a lobbyist she worked both as a private sector consultant and for a national children's charity.
Currently vice chair, Pamela has served on the DSC Board since 2006, and is also a Trustee of Street Child of Sierra Leone, a small project reuniting families and supporting vulnerable children in West Africa.
Bridget Gardiner
Bridget is currently Director of Fundraising and Marketing for the National Society for Epilepsy. She has 15 years experience in the voluntary sector, prior to which she had a career in commercial sales and marketing.
In 1992 she became a volunteer fundraiser for a charity working in Romania. She has worked for RELATE, the Countryside Commission, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, QUIT, was Director of Fundraising and Marketing for Richard House Children’s Hospice.
Linda Laurance
Linda is a consultant, trainer, facilitator and mediator, providing guidance on governance and trusteeship, managing conflict and improving workplace relationships.
She chaired the successive working groups for the production, implementation and accreditation of the Trustee and Management Committee National Occupational Standards, and also chaired the steering group which produced the first edition of the Voluntary and Community Sector Good Governance Code. Linda is founding past chair of Charity Trustee Networks. She was the first Co-ordinator for the European Third Sector Governance Principles Project and continues to be a member of the steering group.
Roger Morris
Roger is secretary of the P H Holt Charitable Trust, which is a regional grant making trust in Merseyside.
He has been a trustee of DSC since 1996 and is also a trustee of a number of charities in the Merseyside area engaged in community, education and arts activity.
Sash Newman
Sash is currently the Chief Executive of BackCare – the Charity for Healthier Backs. She previously worked for a criminal Barristers Chambers as Practice Development Manager and has over 20 years experience of Strategic Planning, Customer Relationship Management and both internal and external communication.
She has worked for the National Missing Persons Helpline for 7 years in a senior management capacity, spending 2 years as Head of External Development. She is passionate about Childrens Issues and in particular 'runaways' and children in looked after circumstances.
Anne-Marie Piper
Anne-Marie specialises in charity law and acts for sponsors of new charities, directors, trustees and officers of existing charities and other not-for-profit bodies and individuals and companies wishing to make charitable gifts or do business with charities.
She is also well known for her handling of Charity Commission investigations and acting, for and against, Charity Commission appointed receivers and managers. Founder, former secretary and now Chairman of the Charity Law Association, Anne-Marie also lectures and writes regularly on charity law subjects.
David Zahn
David is a senior vice president/portfolio manager of Global Fixed Income portfolios at Franklin Templeton Investments and is a member of the Fixed Income Policy Committee.
Prior to joining Franklin Templeton in 2006, he was a senior portfolio manager at Citigroup Asset Management. David has a total of 16 years experience in the investment profession. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder and a Financial Risk Manager (FRM). David earned his BSc in business administration from the University of Maine and an MBA in Finance from the University of Connecticut.