Deputy Lieutenants

Naser Fouad

• Founder/Chairman, St Mark Universal Copts Care
• Patron, Warrington Disability Partnership
• Sponsor, Phoenix Project
• Supporter, Warrington Youth Club

Christine Gaskell CBE MBE DL

• Chair, Cheshire and Warrington LEP
• Chair, NW Apprentice Ambassadors
• Board Member, National Apprentice Ambassadors Network
• Board Member, Business in the Community (North West)

Mark Greaves DL

• Founding Partner, Cheshire Community Foundation
• President, Congleton Rugby Club
• President, Foden’s Band, Sandbach
• Patron, NSPCC
• Sponsor, Chetham’s School of Music

Geoffrey Hawley JP DL

• Vice Chairman, Cheshire Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace
• Chairman, Lymm Cancer Research Committee
• Governor, Lymm High School
• Governor, Lymm Oughtrington Primary School
• Magistrate

Clare Hayward MBE, DL

• Chair, Make It Macclesfield
• Chair, Macclesfield Winterfest
• Chair, Macclesfield Silk Quarter Group
• Founding Partner, 505050 Fund-Raising (The Christie)

Eric Hodgson JP DL

• Chair, Cheshire Magistrates Bench
• Past Deputy Chairman – Lord Chancellor’s Cheshire Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace.
• Former Chief Executive – Warrington Hospitals NHS Trust
• Former Chief Executive – 5 Boroughs NHS Trust
• Past Chairman – Arena Options Housing Association
• Past Chairman – Oakmere Parish Council
• Former Governor – Warrington Collegiate
• Former Member – Cheshire Police and Crime panel

Bill Holroyd CBE DL

• Founder & Chairman, Onside
• Chairman, Holroyd Foundation
• Patron, Queen’s Commonwealth Trust

Nick Hopkinson

• Vice President, Bolton Lads & Girls Club
• Board Member/Past Chairman, Warrington Youth Club
• Fundraiser for OnSide, past fundraiser for NSPCC, Bloodwise and Alzheimer’s Research
• Member, Great Budworth Church Restoration Committee

John Lea DL

• High Sheriff of Cheshire 2011-2012
• Chairman, All Change for Crewe Partnership Board

Robert Mee DL

• Chair, Cheshire Science Corridor Enterprise Zone
• Board Member, Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership
• Chair, Hospice of the Good Shepherd
• Trustee, Cheshire Young Carers

Mark Mitchell DL

• Chair, Zoom Zoom Charitable Trust
• Vice-Chair, Wirral Youth for Christ
• Non-Executive Director, Chester Cathedral Enterprises
• Trussell Trust Food Banks
• Warrington Street Pastors
• High Sheriff of Cheshire 2019-20

Brigadier Tom O’Brien CBE TD ADC DL

• Trustee, Broughton House Home for Ex-Service Personnel
• Member of Council, Army Benevolent Fund
• Member, NW Reserve Forces & Cadets Association
• Director Reserves (Army)

Lynn Pegler

• Director, Halton Chamber of Commerce
• Governor, Riverside College Widnes
• Manager, Weaver Fords, Frodsham Literature Festival
• Director, actor, former chair, Kingsley Players
• Former Communications & Marketing Manager, British Waterways
• Former MoD: Army NW Press Officer (inc. overseas operations)
• Former Senior Information Officer, NW Central Office of Information

Graham Phillips DL

• County Scout Commissioner for Cheshire
• District Chairman, Warrington Scouts
• Member of Various National Scout Boards

Howard Platt

• Chair of Trustees, The Challenge Academy Trust
• Patron, Lymm Heritage Centre
• Fundraiser, National Garden Scheme
• North West “Business Angel”
• Vice President, Lymm Rugby Union Football Club

David Pollock DL

• Chair, The Prince’s Trust North West Development Committee
• Enterprise Fellow, The Prince’s Trust
• Founder Member, Cheshire Business Leaders 2008
• Founder Partner, Cheshire Community Foundation
• Vice President, East Cheshire Hospice
• Former Trustee, Active Cheshire 2017

Sue Proctor MBE DL

• Chester Childbirth Appeal
• Chester University of the Third Age
• Guilden Sutton Neighbourhood Plan
• Alzheimers Society Singing for the Brain

Susan Sellers DL

• High Sheriff of Cheshire 2014-15
• Vice-President Royal British Legion Cheshire County
• Trustee Tarporley War Memorial Hospital
• Trustee Cheshire Crimebeat
• Police and Crime Commissioner’s Observer
• Specialist Advisor, Care Quality Commission
• Trustee, Active Cheshire

Major General Keith Skempton CBE DL

• President, SSAFA Forces Help, Cheshire Branch
• Trustee, Cheshire Military Museum
• Honorary Vice President, Cheshire Regiment Association
• Member, The Mercian Regiment Association
• Chair of Trustees, Cheshire Regiment Chapel and Garden of Remembrance
• Governor, Royal National Lifeboat Institute

David Thompson MBE DL

• Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Warrington Disability Partnership
• Founder/Event Co-ordinator, Disability Awareness Day
• Non-Executive Director, ELLA Together, Performing Arts group
• Trustee, Tim Parry & Johnathon Ball Foundation for Peace
• Past Chair, Cheshire Disabilities Federation
• Patron, No Secrets
• Honorary President, Warrington Sea Cadets

Brigadier John Thomson OBE QVRM TD DL

• Patron, The Hospice of the Good Shepherd
• Hon Colonel Cheshire Army Cadet Force
• Trustee, The Cheshire Regiment Garden of Remembrance

Eleanor Underhill

• Assistant Director of Operations, Cheshire, Merseyside and Lancashire, National Trust
• Governor, Styal Primary School
• Director, Marketing Cheshire
• Member, Manchester Airport Consultative Committee

Joëlle Warren MBE DL

• Member, CBI Enterprise Forum
• Member, Cheshire Business Leaders Team 2008
• Member, North West Business Leadership Team 2017

Dr Pete Waterman OBE DL

• Ambassador, Community Service Volunteers
• Ambassador, The Prince’s Trust
• Patron, Macmillan Centre, Halton Hospital
• President, The Waterman Railway Heritage Trust
• President, Combustion Engineering Association

Professor Tim Wheeler DL

• Director, Diocesan Board of Education (Cheshire)
• Trustee, Cheshire Military Museum
• Member, Cheshire and Warrington LEP
• Board Member of Warrington 2000+
• Member, Warrington Chamber of Commerce & Industry
• Member, Chester and North Wales Chamber of Commerce

Dame Jo Williams DBE DL

• Chair, Prison Reform Trust
• Trustee, Dartington Hall Trust
• Trustee, Everychild
• Patron, Cruse