RGuide Organisation Details

RGuide Organisation Info
Name:	New Opportunities Fund
Address:	c/o SEEDA Cross Lanes London Road Guildford GU1 1YA Click here to view map
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Contact:	Ed Brown
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Web Address:	http://www.nof.org.uk
Categories:	Funding, Health

Role

A lottery distributer created to award grants to health, education and environment projects throughout the UK. Many of the grant programmes focus particularly on those in society who are most disadvantaged.

Board Members

Baroness Pitkeathley, Chair Jill Barrow, Chief Executive of the South West of England Development Agency Professor Eric Bolton, Chairman of the Book Trust, National Advisory Committee on Cultural and Creative Education David Campbell CBE, Chairman of the Health Education Board for Scotland, Regional Chairman of the Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust, Nita Clarke, Vice-Chair of Governors at Woodside Infant and Junior Schools, Parliamentary Liaison Officer for UNISON Tom Davies, Director for Wales of The Prince's Trust Professor Sian Griffiths OBE, Director of Public Health and Health Policy at Oxfordshire Health Authority, at Oxford Brooks University, trustee and Board Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine,Trustee of Thames Valley Partnership. Melinda Letts, Chairwoman of the Long Term Medical Conditions Alliance, a Trustee of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and a Trustee of Comic Relief Dugald Mackie, Secretary of the University Court of the University of Glasgow Professor Allan Patmore CBE, Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Hull Professor Breidge Gadd CBE, visiting Professor of Community and Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Ulster, adviser to the Council of Europe on Community Sanctions and Measures, Trustee of the Lloyd TSB Foundation.