BURTON STREET FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Community Services Manager for Sheffield City Council
Adeel is a Community Services Manager for Sheffield City Council. He has worked for the local authority for over 14 years initially starting as an apprentice and moving up the ladder. He has vast experience of leadership, management, HR and community engagement.
He is very passionate with strong beliefs on how communities really matter and how the base family elements of communities promote a strong community that ensures the groups concerned are evenly represented at all levels across the city. Being multilingual, he is keen to promote the great work the foundation does to ethnic communities.
Adeel shared that he is humbled and privileged to be a trustee at The Burton Street Foundation having witnessed first-hand the unique passion and ethos shown by staff working with service users. He is committed to doing his utmost to ensure that people with disabilities are enabled to be full members of society.
He lives in Sheffield and is a big boxing fan and a football fanatic.
I'm a speech and language therapy student and applied to become a trustee to get more involved in city life when I first moved here. Being a trustee of the Burton Street Foundation is privilege as I get to hear about the vital work the organisation does and positive impact it is having, especially on people with learning disabilities. I feel I have a lot to learn from the organisation, which is doing important work in the face of the considerable challenges which beset the social care sector. I also hope to contribute by drawing on my 15 years of PR and communications experience to help with further profile raising so that more people can discover this welcoming community within the Sheffield community.
Clare joined Burton Street Foundation as Operation's Manager in 2010 and became part of the senior management team. She had responsibility for overseeing the £2million refurbishment of the buildings and then getting the site to full occupancy. She was promoted to Operations Director in 2012 with direct responsibility for all external users of Burton Street including business tenants and community groups as well as all facilities departments such as catering, cleaning, building maintenance. Prior to working for Burton Street Foundation, Clare was a Senior District Manager for a large multi-National Facilities Management company, and has over 25 years of management experience in the commercial sector. Clare was selected by the Board of Trustees to succeed Dave Clarson as Managing Director in January 2015, having worked together closely for the previous 5 years.
Diane has 2 children and 5 grandchildren. She has lived in Walkley for over 40 years. Diane worked locally before becoming a City Councillor for the Walkley Ward from Jan 1993 till May 2012. This gave her the opportunity to help, understand and work alongside many local groups individuals, businesses along with City wide issues. In 2003/4 Diane became Lord Mayor of Sheffield. Within the first 24 hrs Diane had the honour of being host to their Royal Highnesses Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip which was indeed a very special day for the City. A most enjoyable year.
I fulfilled my childhood dream of becoming a doctor in 1980 with MBBS. Following this, I came to UK and qualified as member of RCOG, becoming a successful Specialist Consultant for the NHS where I worked for over 31 years. Medical law has been another passion of mine, and I am qualified as a Master of Laws. I have wide experience of leadership, training and teaching along with management as a Clinical Lead and Director for the NHS. I retired in 2018. My aim was to improve standards and provide competent care with compassion. To further, this I worked as CQC inspector to assist other hospitals in the NHS. I am eager to transfer those skills in my role as a Trustee for Burton Street Foundation.
Being multilingual, I have helped women from ethnic communities to learn English, and even presented for ethnic programmes on BBC Radio Sheffield. I am currently learning Spanish. I have always been sporty and active so after retiring I took golf and salsa, which I enjoy immensely. My other passions are oil painting, knitting, cooking and Pilates. I have three Shih Tzu poodles who keep me busy with walks, playtime and grooming.
I was born and bred in Walkley on 5th June 1937. I am married to Bill and have 2 children and 6 grandchildren. I retired from the Post Office as a counter clerk after 27 years' service. I have always had a lot of interest in people. I was on the Governors at both Walkley and Myers Grove Schools and can honestly say I enjoyed every minute.
I attend Hampden View Chapel and after 6 years, I think I have some knowledge of what people in this community have an interest in. Being a trustee of the Burton Street Foundation has been a great joy to me, it's always been there and is a life line to many people of different walks of life.
I started a tea dance for over-50's many years ago and the group is still going strong. I also started a forum for vulnerable adults at Burton Street, to give them the opportunity to have a say and get feedback from me on meetings I attend.
I feel strongly that Burton Street is an asset for the surrounding area. I have been on the Board for around 13 years and long may it continue.
Jane has been a volunteer at Burton Street and a member of FOBS(Friends of Burton Street) volunteering and fundraising group for around 10 years since her retirement from teaching.
John is Development Manager at Locality, working with Locality members (such as Burton Street) across the north of England to help them network, plan business activities and acquire investment. Locality is the national network of ambitious and enterprising community-led organisations, with over 100 members in Yorkshire and a long history of working with Burton Street Foundation.
In 2015 John worked with Burton Street Foundation to help access investment from Power to Change for the Bamforth Building redevelopment.
John has been at Locality for 4.5 years. Prior to this, he worked with NAVCA, the national body of voluntary sector infrastructure organisations. Prior to that at SCEDU (formally the City's community enterprise support body).
He is a committee member, and treasurer of the Sheffield Social Enterprise Network, and lives in Sheffield.
Karen is a corporate and commercial lawyer with over 30 years experience in private practise and industry , mainly working in house for multi national corporates, where she has specialised in equipment leasing and asset finance. She grew up in Sheffield and subsequently worked in London, Paris and Manchester. She has lived in Sheffield for the last 22 years and welcomes the opportunity to be a trustee of the Burton Street Foundation to be able to get more involved in, and to contribute, to the Sheffield local community. She looks forward to playing a role in bringing attention to the great work being done by the Burton Street Foundation to a wider audience.
She has one daughter and her current hobbies are golf , dancing, and learning Spanish.
Martin had a career in the legal profession spanning over 30 years, including being a partner in the Sheffield office of international law firms Nabarro LLP and CMS before retiring from practice in 2018. He is a Director of AESSEAL plc, a global manufacturing company headquartered in Rotherham. Martin holds a number of board positions across the business, charity, education and voluntary sectors including, Whirlow Hall Farm Trust, The Herbert Hughes Memorial Trust, The Burton Street Foundation and St Luke's Hospice. He is Chair of the Sheffield Property Association, Vice Chair of the Sheffield Culture Collective and a Non Executive Director of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. Martin is the current High Sheriff of South Yorkshire.