The trustees
Board of Trustees
John Butterworth - Chairman: John has spent the last thirty years in the building industry and is currently Managing Director of a property investment company, with a subsidiary building company. John is a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman in The Worshipful Company of Founders. Educated at Worth School, John has been a Member of the Catenian Association for 22 years, twice serving as Circle President in Esher. His out of work interests are 18th and 19th century English firearms, English stately homes and their social history and artefacts.
Veronica Fulton - Vice Chair: Veronica is a qualified chartered accountant (1972) and has certificates in Pension Fund Trusteeship and Parish Ministry (Heythrop). Veronica has worked for the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Institute of Chartered Accountants (1996 to 2002). Currently she works 3 days per week as a Pension Fund Trustee for the Law Debenture Pension Trust and she is studying for an MA in Canon Law at Heythrop. She is a member of the Finance Committee at CAFOD. Other voluntary experience includes being a governor and Chairman of the Audit Committee at St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill.
Michael Walton - Treasurer: Michael was educated at Downside and is a chartered accountant with a long career in private equity including being a director of Gartmore Private Equity, NatWest Equity Partners, Bridgepoint Capital and Electra Private Equity plc. In the course of his private equity career he has served on the boards of a number of public and private companies in the UK, Continental Europe and the United States including Chairing the Board of Robinia, a major private sector care home business. He has served on the Council of the British Venture Capital Association. His voluntary work has included being a member of the Local Review Committee/Board of Visitors of Brixton prison and the Parole Board; Treasurer of the Downs Syndrome Association; Trustee of Parents for Inclusion; Director of Shared Interest Society Limited and Trustee of the Shared Interest Foundation (which is linked into the Fair Trade Foundation); Trustee of the Criminal Justice Alliance; Chair of Governors, Beatrix Potter Primary School in Wandsworth.
Bishop John Arnold: was ordained Bishop and appointed as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Westminster on 3rd February 2006. He is assigned the titural see of Lindisfarne and has responsibility for the pastoral care of the deaneries of Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Haringey and Harrow. In 1975 he graduated with a Law Degree from Trinity College, Oxford and completed his legal qualification by being called to the Bar in the Middle Temple in 1976 after studies at the Council of Legal Education. In the autumn of the same year, he entered the novitiate of the Institute of Charity (Rosminians), taking simple vows in 1978 before beginning studies at the Gregorian University in Rome. In 1981 he transferred to the Venerable English College and continued his studies for the Diocese of Westminster, completing both a Licence and a doctorate in Canon Law. He was ordained by Cardinal Basil Hume as a deacon in November 1982 and a priest in July 1983. With the completion of studies in Rome, he was appointed to Westminster Cathedral as a chaplain, with responsibilities for the Westminster Hospital in 1985. In 2001 he was appointed as Chancellor and Vicar General by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. In 2003 he was made a Chaplain to the Papal Household.
Charmaine De Souza: Charmaine is currently a programme management specialist at the Department of Children, Schools and Families. Charmaine has Diplomas in Management, Learning and Development: she is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and has an MSc in Organisational Behaviour. Before joining the Civil Service in 2004, she worked as a learning and development specialist at the BBC specialising in programmes related to new media and digital technologies. Over the last 5 years Charmaine has worked on a diverse range of programmes covering national training policy for the Police Service in England and Wales, co-ordinating policies related to anti-social behaviour across government, and is presently focussed on keeping the most disadvantaged young people in society on the road to success. Alongside being a Trustee of the CHC, which is her first formal volunteering role, Charmaine is also active in her local parish in Hertfordshire.
Neville Dyckhoff: Neville retired from his last employed post as Director of Catering of the Metropolitan Police Service in 200, after over 45 years as a professional hotelier and caterer. He qualified with the National Diploma (converted to BSc the following year) in Hotel Keeping and Catering: he then worked as a resident manager of a hotel in Lincolnshire, a manager of guest facilities at Manchester Airport (Forte and Co) and a number of other postings followed including other airports, motorway service areas, royal parks and popular catering sites. He joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1971 and was promoted sequentially to the role of Director of a department employing over 1,000 staff. Neville is a Fellow of the Hotel and Catering Institute, of the Royal Society of Health and of the Royal Institutes of Public Health and Hygiene, a Member of the British Institute of Management and of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. He was awarded the honour of 'Serving Brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem' in 1992 and an OBE in 2001. Neville was ordained Deacon in the Westminster Diocese in June 2006 and in addition he is actively involved in parish life, interfaith matters and St Joseph’s Pastoral Centre in Hendon.
Caroline Hattersley: Caroline is currently the Head of Information, Advice and Advocacy at the National Autistic Society, prior to which she worked for the British Red Cross Society as the Community Education Manager specialising in Inclusion and Vulnerability, having previously been their Special Needs (First Aid) Officer. Caroline has a Masters in Education (Exeter) and is a member of both the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Fundraising. Caroline has also worked in the public sector as a youth and community worker for Surrey County Council working with refugees and asylum seekers, people with disabilities and disaffected young people. Her voluntary experience includes previously being a Trustee of several organisations including Catholic Youth Services and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and she currently volunteers as the Child Protection Officer for Havering Skater Hockey Club working with young people aged 6 to 25.
Richard Hopper: Richard is currently Director of Workforce Development for Essex Fire and Rescue Service; prior to that he was a senior interim executive in the public and private sector. Having begun his career as a Merchant Navy Officer he came ashore in 1988 as managing fleet and landside operations. His last corporate role was as strategic planning adviser to Lloyd's Register, a global engineering and risk management company, but since 2000 Richard has built a freelance career specialising in delivering strategic HR projects to a range of clients including the Probation Service, BSkyB, the Telegraph Group and Lloyds Register amongst others. Richard holds an MBA.
Caitlin Kennedy: is currently the Senior Head of Events at The Prince's Trust, the youth charity founded by HRH The Prince of Wales in 1976. Prior to joining The Trust in 2003, Caitlin worked as a freelance researcher and project manager for Visiting Arts and The British Museum and obtained an MA in Arts Policy and Management at City University. Caitlin spent most of the 1990s working for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, developing and delivering cultural policy and co-operation programmes with governments, artists and arts managers in the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. Caitlin grew up and went to school in France, then read Modern History at Oxford University. She has volunteered as a mentor for young people at The Trust and on an art-based project for homeless people connected to St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Cyril Kinsky: is a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn. His practice is as a commercial litigator. The major cases in which he has appeared include Equitable Life’s claim against Ernst & Young for £2.6 billion and Sir Elton John’s claim against Price Waterhouse. He was called to the Bar in his mid-thirties. Before that he was a freelance director in the theatre, working at various reps around the country, as well as at the Old Vic and Hampstead Theatre Club. In the mid-1980s he founded and ran The Sudan Forest Project, a fundraising initiative designed to support a particular re-forestation project in Northern Sudan run by SOS Sahel International UK. More recently he was a member of the board, and then chairman of the board which runs the Ecole Jacques Prévert, a French primary school on Brook Green which his four children attended, as a result of which he was made Chevalier de l'ordre des Palmes Académiques. His most direct contact with Cardinal Hume was playing opposite him as fly half in the annual monastery vs Oxbridge candidates rugby match at Ampleforth during half term in October 1971.
Simon O'Toole: is a barrister in private practice at the Common Law Bar in London. He specializes in litigation and advisory work, predominantly regarding issues relating to property. Between 1990 and 1997 he held various directorships of private companies and worked outside the Bar whilst pursuing a political career. Simon has always had an interest in, and close association with education and training. He was sabbatical President and Warden of his student union. He mentors school and university students with an interest in a career at the Bar, and speaks to students on behalf of the Bar Council and his Inn. Simon is currently leading the Schools Academy programme run by the Inner Temple and the National Education Trust. The Academy programme is part of the Bar’s wider social mobility programme to encourage the best students from all backgrounds to consider a career at the Bar. Simon sits on the Bar Council Recruitment and Entry Subcommittee, and is an accredited advocacy trainer. Simon has been an out of district member of the Westminster Cathedral parish since 1982. Since then he has been a regular reader at the Cathedral. Between 1995 and 1996 he was the parish representative on the Westminster Cathedral Centenary Year main fund raising committee.
Terry Philpot: is a journalist and writer. He writes occasionally for The Tablet, The Guardian and other publications and is a columnist for YoungMinds Magazine. He has written and edited more than a dozen books on subjects ranging from adoption to learning disability. His latest book is Understanding Child Abuse: The Female Partners of Sex Offenders Tell Their Stories. Caritas Social Action Network has published his two reports on residential care for older people run by religious orders: On the Homes Front (2002) and The Length of Days (2007). He has also published reports on kinship care and private fostering. As well as being a trustee of CHC, he is also a trustee of Circles UK and the Michael Sieff Foundation. He is a former trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and of the Centre for Policy on Ageing and Rainer (now Catch 22). He is a mentor with CHC and is also a volunteer for New Bridge and Human Writes.