Our Trustees
Our Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall control and strategic direction of the charity. They meet regularly during the year to consider, determine and review Hand in Hand Foundation Worldwide's strategies and policies, and to receive reports from our projects. They work for the Hand in Hand Foundation Worldwide in a voluntary capacity.
Anthony Harper (Chairman)
Anthony is the Chairman, and pioneer to setting up Hand in Hand Foundation Worldwide. With his wife Catherine, they run a small Post Office and retail business.
He has previously been a trustee for Youth for Christ (Tunbridge Wells), helping set up the local charity branch, before he moved away to the West Country. For a number of years he was a trustee and Honorary Secretary for Just Children Foundation (UK). He was also involved in setting up Josiah Venture UK in Scotland and was a trustee for a few years. Anthony felt very privileged to serve on these charities and the work they have accomplished.
Speaking of work in Zimbabwe
'Once you have seen the work first hand and the help and need required you can’t help but become engaged. The passion that is stirred inside you helps you to view life in a different way.'
And one of Anthony's favourite quotes:
'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'
Winston Churchill
Noel Baker (Treasurer)
I’m Noel Baker, the newest Trustee Hand in Hand Foundation Worldwide, and also the Honorary Treasurer. I have been aware of the support HIHFW have been offering to projects in Africa for a number of years, and am proud now to be involved in their work on a personal basis.
I have been involved with youth work at my local church for over 20 years.
I am also supporting Ascension Trust as a Street Pastor and Trustee in my home town of Tunbridge Wells.
It has long been my ambition to take my faith out of my church and to the people where ever they may be.
By day I can be found working at a local car dealership.
John-Mark Newton (Secretary)
John-Mark has been fascinated for a long time by the relationship between poverty, justice and charity, particulary in the context of the Christian faith. Over the years this has lead to many things, from visiting refugeee camps in Turkey to an active involvement in the plight of street children in Zimbabwe via the Just Children Foundation ,and now, something new, with the Hand in Hand Foundation Worldwide.
Natasha Biggs
Natasha joined Hand in Hand Foundation Worldwide to help make a difference in a tangible way and support sustainability and growth within communities.
Natasha has had a lifelong interest in charity work having taken part in various fund raising events, as well as sponsoring children in Kenya and Burkina Faso and visiting refugee camps in Azerbaijan.
Our Ambassadors
Our Ambassadors are individuals that the board recognise as people who have tirelessly promoted the work and vision of the charity.
David Pilch
David Pilch is a retired GP in Norfolk. Although no longer engaged in clinical practice he continues to be active in supporting colleagues. He has been a member of his parish church and a lay chair of its PCC for many years. He has been involved in a number of its charitable activities. In particular he has been personally involved in work in South India and Zimbabwe. He is also a founding member and trustee of a local nature conservation organisation and a trustee of a fuel charity.