Trustees

Lieutenant General (Retd) Anthony Palmer CB CBE

Lieutenant General (Retd) Anthony Palmer CB CBE

Position: Chairman

General Palmer retired from the British Amy in 2005 his last role was Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, responsible for Personnel and Training Policy for all

three services. He also chaired the Service Personnel Board, which had responsibility for 500,000 Service personnel and their families.

As Chief Executive of the Army Training and Recruiting Agency he managed one of the largest training organizations in Europe against tight financial targets.

He has been involved with various charities dealing with the problems of young people and homelessness. He has Chaired the Project Compass which looks after Service homeless.

He is a Trustee of Skill Force (Patron - Prince William) which seeks to help those children in schools who are most in danger of exclusion.

Anthony is committed to improving relations between the Muslim and majority Community. He is Chairman of the Pakistan Society with its main aim to increase public knowledge in Britain of the arts, history, antiquities and geography of Pakistan, economic life and political institutions.

He has been Chairman of The Warrior Programme since 2009.

In his working life he is concentrating on Renewable Energy projects as well as being Chairman of Pax Mondial which is carrying out development projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Charlotte Cole

Charlotte Cole

Position: Co-founder, Trustee and Treasurer

Charlotte has a corporate background with 15 years working for Deloitte in Audit, Corporate Finance and Consultancy. For the last 10 years, both at Deloitte and subsequently at Omnicom, Charlotte has focussed on talent management and people development.

Katrine Boorman

Position: Trustee

Actress and documentary producer

Chris Smith

Position: Trustee

MD of G-volution, a Clean Tech business in the transport sector

Jackie Newstead

Position: Trustee

Partner, Hogan Lovells

Advisers

Andrew Tillard

Director, Golley Slater and, Partner, Animos LLP