Trustees

The Role of Trustees at Enable Ability

The role of the Trustee Board is to provide governance and oversight to the charity. It is staffed by non-executive members with relevant skills to help create strategic plans and make relevant decisions regarding the execution of those plans, whilst providing support and guidance to the staff in their everyday roles.

All Trustees must have a current DBS check and be members of Enable Ability.

The Trustees all subscribe to the Charity Governance Code.

Board Constitution

The board consists of between 6 and 12 (currently 8) Trustees who hold regular meetings to assist the operational management on matters relating to Funding, Financial Management, Property Management and Strategic Planning. Based on time served as trustee, the ‘oldest’ third of the (then) board sits for re-election at the annual general meeting held in November.

The current list of Trustees is as follows:


Kerry Blomerus	Legal	A Solicitor at Enable Law specialising in Clinical Negligence with over 10 years legal experience and became a Trustee in 2021. She has a young family and enjoys travelling, musical theatre and baking.
Alison Bowie	Fundraising
Dan Davies
Stuart Elsom	Deputy Chair (disabled)
Joe Harbour	Treasurer	Became a Trustee in 2004 after a friend asked if he would raise some funds for the Charity by running the London Marathon. This he did dressed as Sooty, being interviewed twice live on BBC television and raising over £2,000. With a background as Bank Manager and then Senior Financial Advisor for Lloyds, working there for 34 years, he was asked if he would take over as Treasurer – and the rest is history.
Bill John	Marketing, Website & Social Media	A retired senior manager at IBM after 30 years experience in IT program management and became a full Trustee in 2018. He is a keen photographer and book publisher and learned how to build and maintain websites during Covid lockdown for the charity.
Jon Muller	Chairman	A trustee since 2011, and Chair of Trustees since November 2013. Was impressed with the dedication and commitment of staff and trustees, and after visiting a Saturday Club and seeing how the youngsters were enjoying themselves, became hooked. With a background in social work, now retired, has found working with Enable Ability a good experience allowing him to apply the skills as practitioner and manager to voluntary work. With grandparenting, golf, attempts at keeping fit, travel and supporting the charity, its a pretty full agenda.
Drew Ramsay	Deputy Chair & IT systems	Retired in 2010 after 32 years in IBM working in services and program management for large financial institutions. Joined the trustee board at the start of 2014. Likes spending time with grandchildren, playing golf and in addition to trustee duties, helping with back-office information technology support at Enable Ability.

Becoming a Trustee

The trustees are always looking for new members willing to join the board and potential candidates are welcome to join committee meetings prior to confirming willingness to join. To understand the role of a Trustee better please click here to read the Trustee Welcome Pack produced by the Charity Commission which explains very well the role and its responsibilities. For further reading you might consider reading their more detailed document “Essential Trustee” which links to the Gov.uk website.