Chair of Trustees Maddy Thomson
Maddy is the Chair of Keychange’s board of trustees. Like all the trustees, she applies her Christian faith to the oversight of the charity’s activities and resources in support of its aim to provide Christian care to vulnerable people.
With over 40 years’ experience in the Social Care and Voluntary Sector, Maddy’s previous roles include 14 years at Skills for Care, first as Regional Manager for London and then National Programme Head for Standards, Learning and Qualifications. She is currently a consultant and coach in the Social Care and Voluntary Sector. Maddy also has extensive governance experience to chair level.
As a Christian, she welcomes the opportunity to serve a charity that has a strong Christian ethos and history and to lead its team of highly skilled and committed trustees. She sees the trustee role as ensuring the charity continues to fulfil its mission, delivers high quality services and uses its resources well to both maintain, grow and develop its services. Maddy believes passionately in establishing caring and inclusive communities where everyone can be supported to live life how they wish and be involved in contributing to their home environment as well as to the surrounding neighbourhood. Whatever our stage in life, or circumstances, everyone has a part to play.
Vice Chair Tim Cotterall
Tim became a Keychange Charity Trustee in February 2015. He has brought his business skills, developed over many years as a Senior Manager in medium-sized businesses across the North West of England.
Most recently, Tim was a Director of a Library book supply business for over 15 years and prior to this spent over 10 years in the Travel industry in varying IT roles.
Tim is married to Liz, and they have two grown up daughters: Becky and Hannah. The family live in Chorley in Lancashire and worship at St Andrew’s Leyland where Tim is on the Leadership team.
Tim and Liz enjoy their time in the Lake District and get up there whenever they have the opportunity. Tim is also a very bad golfer!
Ian Bird
Ian became a Keychange Charity Trustee in the middle of 2021 and is director of an architectural practice that specialises in social and private housing in London and the Midlands.
He has been involved in several charities as a Trustee including a housing trust and a Christian charity offering help to the homeless and marginalised. This also provided opportunities to volunteer which gave an understanding of the huge problems faced by so many people, especially the homeless and asylum seekers.
Ian lives in West London and as a committed Christian is involved with St Paul’s Ealing and he keeps active by joining with the church cycling group.
Stefan Cantore
Stefan is a lecturer at Sheffield University Management School where he specialises in Organisation Development and Management Learning.
Previously he worked in the NHS as a senior manager and also in public sector consulting. One of his interests is how to include everyone in developing and sustaining quality of care. Being a part of Keychange is a wonderful way of combining Christian faith with practical service.
He has recently been appointed an elder of a local evangelical church in Sheffield. He is also learning to appreciate the benefits of walking in the Peak District and taking a break in its many cafés!
Nicholas Leggett
Nick has a wealth of experience as a board member across health, housing and student unions and has served on boards since 2005. His full-time role is as a Church of England rector in Northamptonshire, where he has six small village churches.
His board work began when he was elected onto the Benenden Health care board and become chairman of both the Friends and the Hospital trust. He helped with the hospital redevelopment project which was a £45 million investment and supported development of new services across the hospital including a new fertility centre. He also serves on a day care centre board in Cheam pushing forward the centre pension policy. In the housing sector he is a board member for Co-op homes which has around 1400 properties mostly under management and he also serves as Vice-chairman of the student union of The University of East London as an external trustee.
Nick has undertaken a full range of training for this role e.g. with the Institute of Directors including gaining a Diploma in Management from Bridgwater and Taunton College and has attended conferences in both health and housing sectors.
He also supports community work – when he was working in Coventry he helped to set up a local foodbank, job club, and the city-wide winter night shelter for the homeless. He also works with young people where he is a chaplain with both the Air Cadets and Army Cadets.
His interests include rugby and steam railways.
Rebecca Stockman
Rebecca has been involved in the provision of housing for many years having worked leading the YMCA in Wimbledon for 8 years, and since founding LivShare, a consultancy company focused on assisting the design and delivery of affordable shared housing for people on low income.
Rebecca has also been part of the leadership of Merton Winter Night Shelter since its inception in 2011. In addition to her involvement with Keychange, Rebecca is a board trustee of Faith In Action, Merton Homeless Drop-In.
In her free time, Rebecca often finds herself on unexpected adventures with her family like roller-skating in the park, camping with 5,000 others at Greenbelt festival and getting messy making cake.
Honorary Treasurer Sarah Powley
Sarah is a qualified Chartered Accountant and after 13 years at KPMG as an auditor and in their Mergers and Aquisitions Team, Sarah moved to the charity sector and was the Finance and Risk Director at World Vision UK for 5 years. In 2012 she gained a Certificate in Theology at the London School of Theology before returning to the charity sector as the Finance Director of The Fostering Network for 3 years.
Sarah and her husband Ian live in a diverse community in Hounslow, London where they have been foster carers since 2015 – they foster teenagers and sibling groups, currently fostering three brothers. Over the years Sarah has volunteered for Crisis at Christmas, the local Winter Shelter and taken in homeless young people with the charity Nightstop. She has also been the Chair of the Board of a charity for orphaned and abandoned children in Brazil, the Chair of the Finance Committee at Viva the international children’s charity. She is currently Special Advisor to the Board at Spurgeons childrens charity and Chairs the Finance Committee of The Evangelical Alliance.
With three boys in the house she has developed a new found knowledge of football and has a membership to Brentford Football Club!
Brad Cook
Brad joined Keychange as a Trustee in 2024. He has over 20 years’ experience as an HR professional in a range of public and voluntary sector organisations, and is currently the Deputy People Director for the Church of England’s National Church Institutions. Brad is currently studying for an MA in Theology for Ministry, and is a member of a dispersed new monastic community looking to live out his faith in modern everyday life.
Glenda Roberts
Glenda works for The Salvation Army as Director of Older People’s Services, and is responsible for residential care homes and community programmes for older people across the UK and NI. She studied at the University of Stirling, where she gained a masters degree, and has been a qualified registered adult nurse since 2002. Glenda has supported young adults with complex needs, and older adults in health and social care settings in both the third and private sector, for over 22 years. Glenda is married, and lives in Kent with her two horses, dogs, cats, tortoises.
