Monty Halls (Patron)
As well as presenting TV programmes, Monty Halls is a qualified marine biologist, who has led numerous diving expeditions and is a regular contributor to Diver Magazine.
Monty Halls presented Channel Five’s Great Ocean Adventures.
A taster clip of Monty Halls in action in Great Ocean Adventures can be seen from his official website.
In Channel 4′s Superhuman, Monty Halls finished first out of the male contestants.
Monty is an ex-Marine Officer who trained with the Royal Marines after a short stint in the Navy, “where he even spent time training the guerrilla army in South Africa after Nelson Mandela was released”.
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Katie Green (Patron)
Katie is a model from Chichester, West Sussex.
Katie attended an open casting in July 2008 along with 1,500 girls and had a few pictures taken in her underwear. A week later the Daily Express newspaper ran a picture of her on page 3 asking readers to contact them if they knew who she was as she had been selected as the new face of Wonderbra. She contacted the newspaper and before she knew it she was splashed across a large billboard in London’s west end, on the packaging for their D to G cup range, and in mail order catalogues throughout the UK.
Katie then went onto join Premier Model Management but later quit after being told she needed to lose 2 stone and go from a UK size 12 to a UK size 8-10 despite being 5 ft 10 in tall.
Katie was then signed as the new face of rival brand Ultimo D-G Range.
In July 2009 Katie launched a campaign with Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Öpik. They have begun a petition to put an end to size zero models and underweight models taking to the catwalk or indeed working in the fashion industry at all. Once they reach 20,000 signatures they will present it to the Prime Minister and Parliament to try to have a policy put in place whereby all models are health checked regularly before undertaking any assignments. Considering that Katie is only just 23, it’s a big achievement.
Katie has appeared in publications such as Love It!, Zoo Magazine, Nuts Magazine, FHM, Loaded, News of The World, Daily Express, OK Magazine, Daily Mirror, Daily Star (recently making her Page 3 debut), Daily Star Sunday, The Sun, The Daily Record, The People, Private Eye, The Guardian, Closer, Reveal, Heat and has appeared on various television shows including Channel 5, BBC and Sky News. Katie was also Soccer Am’s Boxing Day Socerette – as an avid Celtic supporter.
She was voted within the top 12 most inspirational women of 2008 by Company magazine. She is currently said to be in talks to appear on reality television shows as well as auditioning for various TV presenting roles.
Spencer James (Trustee)
Spencer has been the lead singer with The Searchers since the mid 1980s, and during the rare periods of time off that their hectic schedule allows, he has made some albums which show his gift for writing and producing (as well as singing of course) his own material.
Kevin Hodgson (Trustee)
Kevin Hodgson is an associate director at one of the leading town planning consultancies in the UK. He has a BSc (Hons) in Human Geography, a Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Design, a Masters Degree in Town and Country Planning, and is a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Kevin is a planning and development consultant on major mixed use developments, providing specialist town planning advice and project management skills.
Peter Taylor (Trustee)
Peter has spent all of his entire career working in Engineering and is currently working as the Site Estimating Manager for a well known engineering company, who fabricate and erect steel structures.
He has consulted on construction sites throughout the country supervising the completion of steel structures from the initial engineering considerations to financial closure.
Peter particularly likes walking in the Forest of Dean.
Fred Bancroft (Trustee)
Born 1946, left school in 1963, employed by Newcastle University as a Laboratory Technician. Joined the army, The Royal Signals, in 1964 leaving in 1997 achieving the rank of Major.
Joined the Blue Cross, the animal charity, as Head of Hospitals Administration responsible for the admin and maintenance of four hospitals.
Retired and moved to The Forest of Dean in 2007. Keen sportsman and enjoys walking, running cycling and swimming.