Simon Starr, Director	Sport Nottinghamshire	CSP
Ted Cantle	IdEA	Government/Regional Sports Board
Nigel Bettinson-Eatch	Nottingham Rugby Club	Professional Sport
John Briggs	Nottinghamshire Badminton Association	National Governing Bodies of Sport
Steve Palframan	Newark & Sherwood District Council	Local Authorities
Sue Connor	Nottinghamshire County Council	Education
Steve Clarke	Jesse Boot Wildcats Arena	Major venues/Building Schools for the Future
Pam Jardine	Neighbourhood Development Company	Regeneration/Regional Sports Board
Bryan Steel	DARE/Youth Sport Trust	Community & School Sport/Olympics
Geoff Waller	Sports Aid Foundation	Voluntary Sector
Stephen Jackson	Nottingham Trent University	Higher & Further Education
Dr Sandra Lee	Queen's Medical Centre	Health
Tara Smith	English Institute Of Sport	Disability Sport
Anne Rippon	Sport England	Sport
Steve Bradley	Nottinghamshire County Council	Local Authority Advisor
Hugh White	Nottingham City Council	Local Authority Advisor

Simon Starr is Director of Sport Nottinghamshire, one of 45 County Sports Partnerships being created and developed by Sport England with the aim of actively contributing to increasing participation and widening access to sport and physical activity, and achieving sporting success. He has over 20 years of sports development experience. His previous roles include Head of Leisure and Tourism at South Holland District Council in Lincolnshire, Assistant Director (Leisure) at Broxtowe Borough Council in Nottinghamshire, and Development Officer for the Sports Council for Wales, where he worked with local authorities, governing bodies and clubs. Simon set up the Junior section of Keyworth Rugby Club and was selected as one of the coaches for the Notts/Lincs/Derbys U16 Rugby Tour to Australia in 2006.
Ted Cantle, CBE, is Associate Director of the IDeA, the Improvement and Development Agency, and oversees the Agency's work on sustainability. In August 2001, he was appointed by the Home Secretary to chair the Community Cohesion Review Team. The Government subsequently adopted the concept of 'community cohesion' and Ted was asked to chair the panel advising ministers on implementation. He was the Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council (1990 - 2001) and had Chief Officer experience in Leicester City Council (1988 - 1990) and Wakefield MDC (1979 - 1983). He was Under Secretary at the AMA (1983 - 1988) and has worked for Manchester City Council. Ted chaired the Government's Construction Task Force from 1998 to 2002 and now chairs the Industry steering group of INREB. He also chairs a Charity, Sustainability First. Ted is a member of the Environment Agency Board and chairs their Urban Advisory Group. He is an adviser to Carlton Television on diversity issues and a visiting professor at the Nottingham Business School. Ted was awarded the CBE in 2004 for his work on community cohesion and services to local government.
John Briggs represents National Governing Bodies on the board of Sport Nottinghamshire. He started playing badminton at 17 and performed a variety of club officer roles before becoming treasurer of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Alliance Badminton League in 1970 and then its Match Secretary. He was very successful in staging events on behalf of the Badminton Association of England at his local Mansfield Leisure Centre and joined the Nottinghamshire Badminton Association Committee in 1986. As chairman of Nottinghamshire he joined the BA of E council and became treasurer from 1992-1997 and was heavily involved in the World Championships in 1993. John then took up umpiring and he is currently the President of the Badminton Umpires Association, having previously been chairman. Professionally John qualified as a chartered accountant in 1961. He ran his own practice from 1978 and in 2000 decided to go into semi-retirement.
Steve Bradley Steve's sports development background ranges from leisure centre management to community development. Formerly head of sport for Nottinghamshire County Council, managing a team of 35 staff, he took up his present position as Assistant Director for Leisure & Culture around 2 years ago. Passionate about equality of opportunity, Steve is a volunteer director of CP Sport and the English Federation of Disability Sport. He was also the co-founder of NASD - the National Association for Sports Development. Out of the office, Steve plays golf off eight and is a keen artist, photographer and guitarist.
Stephen Jackson is Chief Financial and Operations Officer for Nottingham Trent University and a member of the University's Board of Governors. Prior to this role, he was on the Board of easyCar as Finance Director and Company Secretary. Stephen qualified as an accountant in 1975 and joined Bass plc in the same year. In 1983, he was appointed as Finance Director of Crest Hotels: Continent of Europe and from 1986 was part of a small team that acquired Holiday Inn for Bass. He then became Chief Financial Officer for Holiday Inn: Europe, Middle East and Africa. In 1991, Stephen moved to Hong Kong as Chief Financial Officer and Head of IT for Holiday Inn: Asia Pacific. In 1996, he was seconded as acting Managing Director to establish new businesses in South Africa for Bass's leisure subsidiary. In 1997, Stephen joined the Board of John Ryan Company (a US design and consulting firm with operations in over 30 countries) as Executive Vice-President and Global Chief Financial Officer.
Dr Sandra Lee is Project Manager for Q-Active (www.qactive.co.uk), based at the QMC Campus of Nottingham Q-Active is a dedicated project devoted to improving the health and wellbeing of NHS staff and is part of the lottery-funded Active England programme. Sandra has a PhD in Exercise and Health Psychology from Loughborough University and specialises in cultural and behavioural changes. Within Q-Active, she manages all aspects of the programme, from ideas and implementation to recruitment. She is also a keen researcher. Sandra started her career teaching exercise classes and working as a personal trainer and then became a Fitness Manager of a private health club. She then returned to University to study an MSc in Exercise and Nutrition Sciences. Sandra cycles, runs, kick boxes and takes part in adventure races.
Anne Rippon was born and educated in Nottingham before completing a degree at the University of Sussex and represented the University at badminton and cricket. After spending time living and working in France, she joined the Sports Division of Nottinghamshire County Council's Leisure Services Department. From there, she moved to Sport England, where she worked in the development team of the East Midlands Regional Office. In this role, Anne was involved in the development of regional strategies for sport, grant aid programmes, coach education and sports equity as well as national initiatives (including the Junior Sports Leaders Award, Volunteer Investment Programme and Active Sports). This was followed by three years with the Government Office for the East Midlands as Head of Culture and Communications, with a brief for all work relating to the Department for Culture Media and Sport. Returning to Sport England in 2005, Anne is currently Interim Regional Director for the East Midlands.
Pam Jardine is the Regeneration Programme Manager with the Neighbourhood Development Company in Nottingham and Board Member for Sport England in the East Midlands. She has great experience of working with disadvantaged communities and with BME groups. Pam has been a sporting volunteer for many years and is a graded track official. Her interest lies particularly in grass roots sports and developing the potential in young people.
Sue Connor has been employed by Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) as Advisory Teacher for PE and Sport since 1996 and before that taught physical education in secondary schools in Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire. She manages the PE and Sport Service within the Children and Young Peoples Service. This involves supporting schools and other partners to provide high quality physical education and school sport learning experiences. The main areas of work include coordinating the elements of the PESSCL strategy, managing the diverse CPD programme and working with partners across the county and nationally to ensure that PE and Sport has an impact on all young people within the county. Between 1991 and 1996 Sue also managed the Champion Coaching programme for NCC and have taught at Nottingham Trent and Loughborough Universities. She is also a national tutor for Youth Sport Trust and Sportscoach UK. Her main sporting interest has always been netball, having been a player, coach, tutor, tutor trainer and member of the board of directors. Having 'retired' from playing netball, Sue now spends more time playing tennis and swimming and is heavily involved in a volunteer capacity in numerous sports. Sue is passionate about physical activity being accessible to everyone but particularly for those young people who have the greatest need.
Steve Clarke started work as a primary teacher in Nottingham in 1969 and been here ever since! He was a primary school headteacher for 15 years and worked for Sport England Big Lottery Fund programme for 3 years. Recently working for Nottingham City Council on the Building Schools for the Future programme and writing the Draft Primary Strategy for Change. Steve has helped many organisations to successfully obtain funding from a variety of sources. He has always been involved in sport playing in local amateur football until the age of 50, he still plays basketball and regularly runs in 10k and half marathons. Steve is also Secretary of the charitable trust that owns Nottingham Wildcats Arena and heavily involved with Nottingham Wildcats Basketball Club.
Tara Smith is a qualified PE Teacher and initially worked in the Middle East. On returning to the UK she moved away from teaching and into sports development. First working for Newbury District Council, then as a Regional Development Officer for the English Federation of Disability Sport and then as the National Disability Swimming Development Officer for the Amateur Swimming Association, where she was a member of the Aquatics Organising Committee for the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games. For the last 5 years Tara has worked for the English Institute of Sport in the East Midlands and is currently the Athlete Services Manager for the region, responsible for co-ordinating support services around lottery funded Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Tara also works as the national lead for EIS & British Paralympic Association (BPA) relations and has recently completed a 6 month secondment with the BPA as the Performance Manager for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Holding Camps programme.
Steve Palframan is the Strategic Director of Operations at Newark & Sherwood District Council, with responsibility for Leisure & Culture, Housing & Environmental Services. With 30 years experience in local government, 15 as a Director of Leisure in Suffolk, Steve was a former board member of Eastern Sport, and a member of the successful lobbying group set up to bring the sports institute hub site to East Anglia. He is now the UK judge for the UN endorsed Liveable Communities Competition. Steve has a teaching certificate in the advanced art of science and movement and a masters degree in business administration.
Geoff Waller Previously employed with Mansfield District Council as Director of Leisure and Community Services until retirement in 1997. Additionally, a member of the Council's Strategic Management Team with responsibility for monitoring, planning and budgeting for all council services. Worked with Ipswich Borough Council as Assistant Director of Recreation and Amenities prior to employment in Mansfield in 1986. Spent 22 years in Royal Air Force Physical Education Branch before entering a second career in local government. Currently working for the Sports Aid Trust to raise money for talented young sportspersons in the East Midlands through fund raising events, charitable dinners etc. within the business and voluntary sectors. Further experience since retiring from local government in 1997 includes working for Mansfield Town FC as an independent leisure consultant advising on the club's planning and capital development programme, lecturing part-time at Clarendon College and Arnold & Carlton College and appointment to Chair of the Mansfield Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) in 1998. Still physically active competing in age group triathlons and 10k road races.
Nigel Bettinson-Eatch is the National Fleet Operations Manager for Network Rail, looking after the day to day operation of the rail engineering fleet with his team of Regional Operations Managers. His main passion is rugby and is the President and Chairman of Nottingham Rugby Club, a Division One Professional Club. Nigel has been with the club in a management capacity for ten years and has brought them from a position where they were bottom of Division Three to challenging for promotion from National Division One. Nigel has twice been Tour Manager for the Canadian Classics Rugby squad at the World Classics Tournament in Bermuda and was recently the Tour Manager for the England Classics side at both the Croke Park Trophy game in Dublin and for the World Classics Championships in Durban, South Africa along with all the world’s top rugby international teams, which he said was a great honour and really hard babysitting work (with very big babies!). Nigel is passionate about sport in Nottinghamshire and hopes to create a better interface between amateur and professional sport.
Bryan Steel won Olympic Cycling Silver in the Team Pursuit in Athens to add to his Bronze Medal from Sydney four years earlier in 2000. Athens was Bryan's fourth Olympic Games. In 5 consecutive World Championships from 2000 to 2004, Bryan won 4 silver and 1 bronze medals in the Team Pursuit. Now retired from international competition, Nottingham born Bryan works as a Sports Development Manager for DARE, is an athlete mentor for the Youth Sport Trust and Sport England's RAMP project. In addition, Bryan is a Trustee for Sport Acts, an anti-drug ambassador for the UK Sport project 100% ME, a sporting hero for the East Midlands Advocates Project and a Sport England Sporting Champion.
Hugh White has been at the heart of community development in Nottingham for the last 15 years having originally commenced work as a Sports Development Officer. A former sportsman, Hugh has previous experience in the commercial sector at Nottingham Forest Football Club, whilst within the public sector, he has developed an extensive range of experience managing a diverse set of services, including Parks and Open Spaces, Heritage Sites, Arts and Events, Leisure Centres and delivering major sporting events within the City. He is currently Director of Sport, Leisure & Parks which includes responsibilities for all the City’s Parks and Open Spaces (over 20% of Nottingham is made up of accessible Open and Green Spaces) and is also leading the City’s £20 million Leisure Centre Transformation Programme and major sporting development activities. As a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Hugh has combined many of the principles of marketing to working with the voluntary sector and directing private sector support into community initiatives. Having had practical experience of community development at ‘grass roots’ level his strategic role is now focused on customer satisfaction and major service improvements. Born in Nottingham, Hugh was educated at Cheltenham College and then studied in the North East before returning to his home City to develop his career. He has a passion for the City and for developing community involvement in all aspects of Cultural Services.

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