Good Governance Matters - Speakers

Debra has worked in the charitable and voluntary sector for over 30 years. She is a Trustee of In Kind Direct, one of the Prince's Foundation Charities, and a trustee of the Berkshire Community Foundation.

She is also an Africa Advocacy Foundation Ambassador for women and girls at risk of or affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). She has served as a trustee of several charities including being the co-founder of the Small Charities Coalition and was its first Chair.

She served on the Charity Commission's SORP committee for over 7 years and was the Vice-Chair of Governors of Whiteknights primary school for 6 years.

She is a renowned public speaker with many years' experience of training and coaching and internationally published author of several books on management and leadership including It's Tough at the Top; The Pleasure and the Pain; It's Murder in Management and It's a Battle on the Board.

Debra has a regular monthly column in Third Sector magazine and has appeared on Radio 4's The Moral Maze.

Ben has had several roles since joining DSC in 2003, at various points leading research, policy, training and events.

In his current role as Director of Development and Delivery he oversees the Marketing, Publishing, Funds Online and Development teams.

Ben's favourite thing about DSC is seeing individuals and organisations having a bigger impact because we’ve helped them - whether that’s projects that get funding because someone’s used one of our directories, or amazing people going back to lead their organisations after attending our training courses.

William Butler is chair of DSC’s Board, a regional VCSE Health Alliance and a Patient Partnership Group.

He is trustee of educational and homelessness charities, a former mental health charity director, CEO of a membership disability charity and COO of a substance misuse treatment services provider.

José joined DSC in 2016 and is responsible for creating, development and implementation of marketing plans for publications and funding websites.

José likes being part of creating products that help charities to help their beneficiaries.