Board Members
The current Board members are
Secretary – Viv Mills.
Viv’s responsibilities include management of membership, organising the training camps and the National Championships, entering the fencers into international competitions, organising Board meetings and the AGM, and keeping records of those meetings and attending the Performance Management Board meetings.
Assisting Viv are the following people:
Jo Gilliver – Facebook and Twitter
Najib Coutya – Updating the website
Treasurer: Adebola Odeyemi.
Adebola has responsibility for setting the budget, providing balance sheets for the board meetings, preparing the Annual Report for the Charity Commission, and for managing the bank account
Member: Alan Sheriff.
Alan is the Development Officer and has responsibility for development and expansion of the sport. He runs all the taster sessions, the Spinal Games and the National junior Games. He also helps Wheelpower’s fencing sessions. Alan helped to write the coaching programme and he and Pater Rome hope to be running more courses soon. Alan is assisted by the following people:
Justine Moore – coaching wheelchair fencing
Shah Rashid – coaching wheelchair fencing.
Duncan Moyes – coaching children with autism in special schools in the North East.
Member: Adrian Speakman
Adrian has specific responsibility for making applications for funding from specific funding organisations like Sport England.
Member: Paul Marshall
Paul has just been co-opted onto the board and is currently without portfolio.
Peter Rome
WCP Coach
Peter with Piers Gilliver