Green-Works is an award winning social enterprise and registered charity dedicated to helping the environment by diverting redundant office and school furniture from landfill by providing reused and remanufactured furniture to small business, charities, schools and community groups whilst providing training and real work experience to the unemployed.

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Our Trustees

Dr John Mumford OBE (chair)

John Mumford served at BP for over 30 years spanning senior management positions in Europe, Australasia, Asia and latterly the UK where he dealt extensively with BP's reputation, governance and government relations issues. His role included serving as President of the UK Petroleum Industries Association, the oil industry representative on the UK government's Motorist Forum and a Council member of the Energy Institute. In 2003, John received an OBE, for services to the environment, in recognition of the work he had done on the introduction of clean fuels. He was awarded his PhD for studies in public perception of risk in 2006. Since his retirement his work includes advising businesses on the management of risk and reputation through his company Reputation Risk Consultants. He joined the board of Green-Works in 2007.

Gordon Bentley

  Gordon Bentley is Company Secretary of Home Retail Group plc and also has responsibility for legal and consumer Affairs and corporate responsibility. He was previously Company Secretary of GUS plc before the de-merger of Home Retail Group from GUS plc in 2006.

Prior to this, Gordon worked for 15 years at Standard Chartered plc in a number of roles, including senior management positions in the legal and compliance Department, the group chief executive's office and government relations, culminating in his appointment as Group Company Secretary. He was appointed to the Board of Green-Works in 2003.

 

Sharon Crooks

Sharon Crooks has been a trustee of Green-Works since its inception in 2000.

She has worked in the field of Human Resources for over twenty years, in a number of organisations including Hilton hotels, Sony Music and Diageo.

Most recently she has been working as a freelance consultant for a range of clients in the commercial and not for profit sectors.

 

 

 

Dr Tony Golding

After graduating from Cambridge and the University of Sussex, Tony Golding spent several years with an international electronics company. He spent most of his career with the London-based investment bank Flemings, (now part of J.P. Morgan Chase), becoming a director in 1980. He left Flemings in 1998 to write a book on the City which, in September 2002, went into a second edition.

Since 1990 Tony has been chairman of Network MESH (West London), a local self-help charity for sufferers of the debilitating illness ME (also known as CFS, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). In 2002 he became a trustee of Action for ME, the leading national charity providing services for and campaigning on behalf of people with ME. He has been a trustee of Green-Works since 2003.

Ruth Saunders

Ruth Saunders is the Director of Facilities Management for Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks company. She has qualifications in Facilities Management and Human Resources and experience of property management and administration in the public and private sectors.

She specialises in change management programmes, new ways of working and value creation within the Facilities Management function. Ruth has been a Board member of Green-Works since 2001.

 

 

 Chris Fowler 

 

Past trustees:

Dr Peter Lehmann CBE

No page describing the current trustees of Green-Works would be complete without a reference to Peter Lehmann, our former chairman who died suddenly in November 2008 after a short illness. Without his backing when Green-Works was no more than an embryo, and his passion as chairman and the guidance and leadership he provided over the subsequent seven years for the environmental and social objectives that drive us, we would not the thriving and established organisation that we are today. The obituary that appeared in The Independent.

Dr Nicola Nicholls

A former research chemist and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Nicola Nicholls spent 14 years in Private Equity with Charterhouse Capital Partners where she was a director and sat as a non-executive director on the boards of a dozen companies. She joined the board of Green-Works in 2002. She is deputy chairman of The Woodland Trust and a non-executive director of professional training company BPP Holdings plc. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Judge Business School and a Director of Cambridge Enterprise. She also advises government departments on the promotion of enterprise and remains a Special Adviser to Charterhouse.