The Christie Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2021-22

Grenville Page Non-Executive Director

Alveena Malik Non-Executive Director

Grenville was appointed from 1 st September 2021 and also took on the role of Chair of the Audit Committee from 1 st November 2021. Grenville is CIPFA (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) qualified and has held Finance Director positions in health, a social enterprise and a local authority owned care organisation. He started his career in local government, before moving into the NHS and then into the Civil Service. He moved out of full time employment 10 years ago to fulfil his ambition of developing a portfolio career working across sectors to drive collaborative working and innovation. Grenville has had a range of roles throughout his career as a Non-Executive Director, Trustee, Executive and business consultant across the public, charities / social enterprise, housing and education sectors. Grenville holds other Non-Executive Director / Trustee positions in social care, housing, a multi academy trust and a GP federation based in Stockport. He is also an independent member of the Audit Committee of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

Alveena has over 20 years’ experience of working nationally on equalities and cohesion issues as well as delivering social innovation projects. For the past 5 years, Alveena has been Chief Executive and Co-Founder of One Million Mentors, a unique community-based mentoring programme, quickly growing roots around the UK. The aim is to transform young lives by connecting one million young people with one million mentors. Previously Alveena was Head of UpRising, a national youth leadership charity. Prior to this, Alveena was Principal Associate at the Institute for Community Cohesion (iCoCo) with lead responsibility on Education and Cohesion Policy and Intercultural Dialogue. She began her career at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) where she became Head of Communities and Integration Policy, leading the development of policies tackling issues such as segregation and extremism. In 2010, Alveena was appointed as Faith Panel Advisor to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (CLG). She was also appointed as Special Advisor to the CLG Committee Inquiry into Migration and PREVENT. As well as this, she was advisor to the Law Society’s Equality and Diversity Committee and was selected for the Northern Power Women Power List in 2020.

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