The trustees and principal officers |
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The Trustees |
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The trustees have overall responsibility for the governance of the charity which they perform through regular meetings of the main trustee board and through sub-committees which monitor finance and the way in which assistance is granted.
Five of the trustees are appointed by different sections of Freemasons in the Province these then consider the additional required skills and appoint two further members.
All trustees appoint the principal oficers. |
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Howard Jones (chairman)
Howard was initiated into Freemasonry in 1972 and became Provincial Junior Grand Warden in 1996. He retired from a career in banking as Area Operations Manager and the experience gained became most useful when he was appointed as Honorary Secretary of West Lancashire Masonic Charities Fund in 1997. With the help of other volunteers he was able to modernise the working of the charity and ensure that it was properly funded. He was a member of the working party that managed the amalgamation of the seven charities and is now an Asstant Provincial Grand Master. |
David Anderton
David retired as Chief Superintendent (Merseyside Police) in 1993. He joined Freemasonry in 1974. David has served as a trustee of the National Police Fund and the Police Dependants' Trust. He is presently a trustee of the Liverpool Ladies Institution (relief for single women), the North West Police Benevolent Fund (relief for police officers, retired police officers and police widows) and until its merger into this charity was the Secretary of the West Lancashire Victoria Fund of Benevolence.
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Peter Levick
Peter joined the board of trustees on 1st April 2010. He is the chairman of the Bootle Group of Lodges and Chapters. A Chartered Builder by profession he spent the majority of his working life in general and financial management of various organisations in both the private and public sectors. He is on the Provincial Membership Officers Committee as Liverpool Regional Co- Ordinator, he is a Trustee of Litherland Masonic Hall, Secretary to the Liverpool Group Chairmans’ Forum and Chairman of the WLFC Festival Organising Committee.
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Christopher Hamilton
Chris retired from the civil service in 1996 after serving with HM Factory Inspectorate for twenty-five years, the last ten years in the development of policy. Previously he was a factory manager for six years with Remploy Ltd. He became a Freemason in Birmingham in 1980 and moved to West Lancashire in 1984. He held office in the Southport Masonic Group as Group Almoner, Group Vice Chairman and Group Chairman from 2005 to 2009, when he was appointed as an Assistant to the Provincial Grand Principals in the Royal Arch. He was a Trustee of the former West Lancashire Masonic Charities Fund before the amalgamation of the Charities.
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David K McCormick
David is a practicing solicitor. He was nominated as a trustee of the charity by the Provincial Grand Master. He became a Freemason in 1961, was appointed the Provincial Junior Grand Warden in 1986 and from 1988 to 1990 served as Vice-Chairman of the Bootle Group and Chairman between 1990 and 1995. For 13 years he was an Assistant Provincial Grand Master. For nine years was the Chairman of the West Lancashire Masonic Charities Fund and served on the committee formed to facilitate the new charity. He is the Chairman of the Non-Masonic Grants Committee of the Grand Charity and a member of its Executive Committee and Risk Committee
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Michael Kinsella
Mike was a practicing accountant in Liverpool from 1972 until 2011. He has served as a magistrate in Bootle since 1994. He has been associated with the West Lancashire Hamer Benevolent Trust since 1986, first as Assistant Treasurer for one year followed by twelve as Treasurer. From 1999 to 2008 he served as Chairman. He has served as the Provincial Grand Treasurer in the Craft and held a similar position in the Royal Arch from 1999 to 2007. |
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David Withey
David qualified as a teacher and taught for ten years before becoming an Education Adviser for Knowsley M.B.C. and subsequently its Assistant Director of Education. Currently he is a part-time lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. He became involved in the West Lancashire Masonic Educational Trust in 1981 with appointment to the General Committee. He became the Trust's Honorary General Secretary in 2000. He is also a trustee of the Royal School for the Blind. Liverpool, and a governor of Childwall High School, Liverpool.
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Principal Officers |
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Roy Skidmore (CEO)
Roy has spent most of his working life in the financial services industry initially in banking with Girobank and Alliance and Leicester and more latterly as a director and chairman of a Crawley based friendly society. He has been presidents of the National Conference of Friendly Societies and the Association of Friendly Societies having also chaired various national committees. He has held trusteeships, directorships and been company secretary in other organisations. Roy joined Masonry in 1992 and was actively involved with the West Lancashire Masonic Charities Fund as joint secretary. |
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John Dutchman-Smith (Treasurer)
John was born in 1945 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1967. He retired in 2002 having spent 35 years in practice in Bolton advising business clients in accounting, taxation and computing. He has served as a member of the council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and as chairman of their Faculty of Information Technology. He became a Freemason in 1985 and has been Master of three craft lodges and is a member of many other orders. On retirement he joined the volunteers at West Lancashire Masonic Charities Fund where he was treasurer for many years. |
The principal officers are supported by teams handling applications, grants, finance, marketing, legal, statutory, secretarial and general administrative work. |
The charity works closely with charity stewards, who raise funds, and almoners, who act on behalf of individuals in need. |
© 2008 West Lancashire Freemasons' Charity
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Charity Reference 239313 |
