BOARD MEMBERS
Aileen Evans
Board Member MK YMCA
Housing Committee
Personnel & Training Committee
Development Committee
Aragon Housing – Managing Director
MacIntyre Housing – Managing Director
Profile: Aileen has many years experience in local authority and housing associations around the country together with a wide experience in supported housing for a diverse range of client groups. She is passionate about young people being supported to make choices about the issues which affect them.
Avril Hill
Board Member MK YMCA
Commissioned Services Champion
MK College Support services for young people
Connexions + MK wide YP support
Cheryl Montgomery
Chairperson of the Board
Profile: For the past 30 years she has been close to the voluntary sector as an employee, supporter, trustee and public sector service commissioner; some of this experience is highlighted here.
Before her retirement from the Homes & Communities Agency at the end of March, she was responsible for helping organisations prepare long-term strategies to meet the demands of forecast growth in Milton Keynes. She has over 20 years experience of policy development and implementation, working from legislation through to real projects which involve public, private and voluntary sectors, including project appraisal and European funding bids. She has served on the Boards of InterAction MK, City Discovery Centre and Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust.
Cheryl is a member of Christ the Cornerstone Church, having led the most recent ecumenical worship review and am currently part of the Mission & Social Responsibility Committee. She chaired the City Centre Chaplain’s support group and took responsibility for Terms and Conditions until the post was re-formed for the MK Development Chaplain. She is also secretary of the MK Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild.
Chris Linford
YMCA Board Member
Finance Committee
David Baxter Centre Board Member
Commissioned Services Champion
Methodist Churches MK link
Reverend David Moore
MK YMCA Board Member
David Baxter Centre – Chairperson of the Board
Profile: Theological oversight. David has been part of MK YMCA for 14 years and served as Chairperson for 11 years. His present role is to offer the Board a theological critique that embraces the Christian story as it functions as an inclusive, secular organisation. For many years David worked with homeless people in London, helping to establish several new charities, including Crisis. As an ideas person he is driven by an insatiable desire to peer over the horizon and peep around every corner.
As a theologian he recognises the Kingdom of God is both present and future and consequently his preferred area of work as Board member is the Development Committee. David worked as the City Centre Chaplain in MK for 8 years and has links throughout the city. He is a member of the Church of Christ the Cornerstone and a committed ecumenist. David is Chair of Tools for Self-Reliance MK, a charity that refurbishes hand tools and makes up tool kits for partner organisations in Africa.
He is also a sculptor and woodcarver who delights in putting his own twist on Biblical stories and cultural icons. He exhibits and is often asked to curate, design or carve. Although he is an ardent West Ham supporter he can often be spotted in the stands at MK Dons.
Julia Valentine
MK YMCA Board Member
Personnel & Training Committee
MK + Bucks IAG Management
Youth Project Management
Local Regional Voluntary Organisation Board work
Background experience
Profile: A Board member since February 2001, Julia first became involved with the YMCA in Milton Keynes when, as a local careers service manager she was involved in establishing the Connexions Service and in drawing in key voluntary organisations including MK YMCA to join the Connexions Partnership responsible for providing a range of information, advice, guidance and support services for local young people.
Julia has brought her experience of both youth and adult information, advice and guidance services, along with her organisational and business management skills to support the MK YMCA, taking over as Chair of Personnel and Training Committee in 2005
Preston Ayres
MK YMCA Board Member
Treasurer & Company Secretary
Development Committee
Finance Committee
David Baxter Centre Trustee
Profile: Preston has been Treasurer of MK YMCA since 1983, and is also on the Board of Directors and Chairperson the Finance Committee. Until his retirement in June 2004 he was a chartered accountant and an audit and business advisory partner at Grant Thornton, based in the Milton Keynes office had responsibility for a broad range of clients, including charities. His current other charitable commitments include being a member (and past president) of the Rotary Club of Milton Keynes Grand Union and trustee of David Baxter Centre.
Preston is also a trustee of Extra Mile Challenges, a registered charity that organizes an annual overseas cycle challenge which in its first six years has raised over £½ million for 140 separate charities.
Away from the above commitments, Preston’s main interests are motor sport and travel. He was British National Historic rally co-driver champion in 2002 and still competes actively as co-driver in UK and overseas.
Chris Tyler
MK YMCA Board
Member Newly appointed member to the Board in June 2010
Leon Roach
MK YMCA Board
Member Newly appointed member to the Board in June 2010
Cllr Norman Miles
Co-opted Milton Keynes Council Representative
Labour Group Leader
Vice-Chair Childrens & Young People’s Select Committee
Local Strategic Partnership
Council Committees & Groups
Trusteeships of other local orgs
Jim Jenkinson
YMCA England Midlands Region (co-opted)
Briony Standley
MK YMCA Board Member – co-opted Housing Committee Member Recently appointed to the Board in June 2010
Magda Zamojska
