Board and Executive Team
Action’s Board are responsible for the governance and strategy of the Charity. They have a number of key responsibilities, particularly safeguarding our long term future, and ensuring that our resources are put to the best possible use.
From time to time, Action will seek to add to its Board. If this might be of interest to you, please e-mail us for further information at info@actionorg.uk
Meet our executive team
Atholl Stott
CEO
Atholl’s bio is coming soon. Please check back again shortly.
Tony De’Ath
Chairman
Over 35 years as a senior leader in the Further Education sector, a career in Strategic HR leadership and management.
A leader with a broad portfolio of experience and responsibility covering HR, Group Estate, IT, Health & Safety, Information Governance and Corporate services, undertaking significant change programmes, building and divesting facilities and services.
Retiring from full time work in August 2022 I now undertake occasional consultancy in the Education sector.
Paul Baylis
Vice Chair & Trustee
After 30 years of working within the Further Education sector, I now run my own educational consultancy company and am currently working as an Education Advisor for the Department For Education as well as continuing to undertake moderation and examination work for Edexcel.
I have always been a keen sports player and am happy, in my advanced years, that I am still able to play football every week and recently competed in a football tournament at the European Masters Games in Finland.
I am an active grandparent to three young grandchildren and enjoy music and, as a season ticket holder, supporting my local football team the mighty Nottingham Forest.
Stuart Otten
Trustee
Stuart has almost three Decades of experience as a senior leader in social work, pastoral care, and charitable sector settings.
An accomplished author, Stuart is passionate about sharing his own lived experience of criminality as a young man. He combines this with his experiences of how focusing on supporting others, and how this has led to finding sustained life change for himself and thousands of others.
Stuart’s experience and expertise in designing and managing multiple projects and contracted services using Public health, trauma-informed and Restorative Justice approaches have gained national recognition and on August 24, Stuart launched his own training and consultancy organisation to further expand and collaborate on this work.
Paula Warnock
Trustee
Paula is a Partner at the international law firm, Hill Dickinson LLP.
Having completed her law degree at Nottingham Trent University, Paula has spent the last 25 years working across both Yorkshire and the North West specialising in pensions law which involves advising trustees of pension schemes and employers on all aspects of pension regulation and management.
In addition to being a Trustee of Action, Paula is also a committee member of the South Yorkshire Pension Group and is Chair of the North West Association of Pension Lawyers.
Hilary Claire Frazer MSc FCIPD CMIIA
Trustee
An international Organisation Development Director with extensive experience in transformation programmes and complex change projects. Providing the platform for c 20 years’ experience in Board positions and senior-level roles for international companies and non-profit organisations focusing on Life Sciences.
Bringing qualifications from top-tier and standard-setting institutions with a depth of expertise in Human Resources, Internal Auditing and Business Finance Adept at identifying and resolving underlying issues affecting individual, team, and organisational performance. Practised in partnership with executives and high-profile stakeholders to deliver economies, increase efficiency, and improve effectiveness.
Philip Antony Taylor
Trustee
Phil Taylor has over 20 years’ experience running local authority housing and homelessness services. His projects in ending rough sleeping and improving youth housing services received national recognition as areas of best practice and he has led a number of strategic partnerships across the country in tackling homelessness. Phil believes strong partnerships and good communication are the key to ending homelessness.
Frank Hanson
Trustee
A former coal miner from South Yorkshire, Frank was made redundant and returned to education as a mature student, where he studied for a BA in History followed by an MA in Housing Policy and Practice. He has since worked in a variety of roles in Local Government, Further Education and Higher Education, as well as running his own business specialising in equality, diversity and inclusion training and consultancy support. Most recently Frank was Head of Prevention and Partnerships at the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, the foremost intelligence and investigative agency for labour exploitation in the UK.