The Executive Committee is made up of a group of volunteers who give freely of their time and skills. Their areas of expertise are varied, including applied physics, art, music, education, law, dentistry, medicine and office management. This wide-ranging expertise contributes significantly to the effectiveness of the committee.
The full committee meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 8pm in The Family Room, Northwood Methodist Church, Oaklands Gate with sub-committees meeting as necessary. To find out more about the range of local issues we cover please click on the tabs under NRA Activities in the Right Hand column.
Plymouth, Devon, was my birthplace. I left the city in 1959 to attend King’s College London University where I obtained a BA (Hons) in French with subsidiary Italian. I became a qualified graduate secretary, but later switched to education and taught in Harrow secondary schools for 27 years. With my family, I moved to Northwood in 1977.
I was born in Leicester in 1942, am married with three children and five grandchildren and have lived in Northwood since 1990. During my business career as a Chartered Accountant I worked in the UK, four African countries and Kazakhstan. Since retirement I have taken an active interest in the local community. Currently (2020) I am the Lead Governor at The Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust representing the north of the Borough; a volunteer of Northwood Live at Home; and Chairman of the Northwood Residents’ Association. I was also Chairman of Save our Northwood, an organisation that successfully stopped Northwood station car park being developed into a supermarket.
Having lived in Northwood all my life, and now with my own family, I am keen that the area’s unique character is not eroded away.