Our Board of Trustees -  bringing valuable experience to the organisation:

Chairman Professor Elizabeth (Lisa) Hall

The Chairman, has been involved with the Charity since 1979 and a Trustee since 1985.  She has 'grown up with disability' and has special interest in communication with people with learning difficulties.  Her sister is a skiing member of DSUK and participated in the Special Olympics in 1993.  Lisa is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Queens' College, Cambridge and brings an expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship and project management to the Board of Trustees. She serves on several professional bodies, grant giving bodies and Trust Funds and is on the advisory board of a number of high tech international companies.

Vice Chairman Robbie Young

Robbie has been involved since the second year of the Uphill Ski Club 30 years ago. He has continued to be actively involved following the development of DSUK.  He sits on the race management group as technical director. Robbie has worked for the sports company Salomon for the past 25 years.

Treasurer Paul Masters

Paul has been involved with DSUK since 2001 and is a Chartered Accountant. He is also a Trustee of two other charities – Mango (Management Accounting for NGOs), of which he is Chair, and Link Community Development, of which he is Treasurer.

Secretary John Currie

John has been volunteering for DSUK on overseas activity weeks since 2000 and has been a Trustee since 2006. A Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland, he has been with Bank of Scotland Corporate for almost 20 years.  His main professional experience is in Operational management and Corporate Finance.

Performance Director for British Disabled Ski Team Jeremy Wood

Jeremy is a Bi-lateral Amputee, active supporter of DSUK since 1998 and Trustee since 2003 is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a career Banker of some 30 years. He became Performance Director of the British Disabled Ski Team, following its integration with DSUK in 2004, is Treasurer for his local swimming club and maintains close links with the charity’s sporting partners UK Sport and the British Paralympic Association.

Trustees

Joe Broussard joined the Trustees as the Chairman of Scotland’s Alternatives Skiers to help smooth the process by which that group joined Disability Snowsport UK. He is a disabled skier (bi-ski) and enjoys skiing with his family. He is a retired Head Teacher of a special residential school. He continues to be involved as Chairman of the newly established Disability Snowsport UK local club – Disability Snowsport Scotland.

Don Brind is a retired journalist who worked for 20 years at the BBC. He was also a Labour Party press officer in the run up to the 2001 General Election. He first became involved with the then Uphill Ski Club in the early 1980s. He has been a helper on activity weeks to Niederau, Villars, Soldeu and Breckenridge and recently began helping at the Bromley ski slope local group. His role at DSUK involves writing publicity material and helping with the production of videos

Steven West is an engineer by trade and co-runs his own engineering firm. He has been skiing since the age of six and started skiing with the BSCD at Tamworth in 2002. A friend encouraged him to go along and help out - Iand he was never allowed to leave!  His involvement grew during the next few years, looking after the paperwork from 2006 and taking over as slope organiser during 2007.  He has skied as a helper on DSUK and BSCD activity weeks since 2005 and attended his first activity week as a BASI Adaptive Instructor in March 2008. Currently Steven attends Tamworth, Castleford and Milton Keynes sessions each month as a volunteer adaptive instructor. Skiing with DSUK has and continues to be his most rewarding and enjoyable way to spend time on snow. 

Lieutenant Colonel Fred Hargreaves has been in the British Army since the age of 16.  He is a keen skier and mountaineer and has recently introduced Adaptive Skiing to the military, providing opportunity for wounded Service personnel to participate in outdoor activities to regain an element of their active lives.  Additionally, he has driven the creation of “Battle Back” – a Defence initiative to improve the aftercare of their wounded through provision and co-ordination of numerous adaptive sports and adventurous pursuits.  He has developed close links with many of the Service charities, and became a Trustee of DSUK in 2008.  He is a BASI Adaptive Instructor, and helps out at Aldershot and Milton Keynes monthly adaptive ski sessions.

Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity at the end of the financial year and of its surplus or deficit for the financial year. In doing so the trustees are required to:

  • select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
  • make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
  • prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enables them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 1985. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.