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The Trustees

TaxHelp for Older People is the name under which the charity Tax Volunteers operates. In order for the charity to operate legally it must have a panel of Trustees.

We are very fortunate that our panel comprises of some of the leading names in the tax world.
Photos and biographies of the Trustees are attached for your information.

Martin Hodgson

Martin our Chairman spent 34 years in Inland Revenue both as a tax technician and as a manager. His jobs included being head of Scotland's PAYE Centre 1 in the 1980s and England's East Region in the 1990s. His final work in the department was as promoter of Continuous Quality Improvement and Better Quality Services Reviews.

After retirement he spent a few months as a temporary Regional Manager for Citizens Advice, and has undertaken consultancy work on new tax systems in Swaziland, Bulgaria and Uganda.

Leonard Beighton

Leonard Beighton spent 37 years in the Inland Revenue, ending as Deputy Chairman of the Board. Since then he has devoted himself very largely to a wide variety of work, alas now all unpaid, across the non-profit sector, in his church and community, nationally and to a lesser extent internationally. Among other roles, he was a specialist adviser to the House of Lords Committee on the Finance Bill, and is a consultant on tax and benefits to CARE (Christian Action, Research and Education) and a member of the LITRG (Low Income Tax Reform Group). Although as befits a former civil servant he has no allegiance to any political party, he was a member of the Tax Reform Commission set up by the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Gerry Petherick spent nearly 30 years working for the Inland Revenue/HM Revenue & Customs as a tax collector, management information manager, policy adviser and latterly as the Pensioner & Student Champion. She is now retired but working at least as hard as a volunteer and trustee for us

Gerry Petherick

Les Shaw	Les worked for HMRC for almost 32 years before taking early retirement at the end of March 2006. He had a variety of jobs in that time mostly involved in compliance but his job for the last 5 years was leading the Customer Relations team in Audit and Pension Scheme Services.He became a trustee in July 2008 in addition to being a volunteer inthe Nottinghamarea. In the real world Les has a wife, two sons and a Nottingham Forest season ticket to support.
Clive Tulloch	Clive Tulloch is Chief Executive of the Free Representation Unit, a charity which provides pro bono representation, mainly on social security and employment matters, in tribunals, supporting claimants who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer. Until 2006 he had been a tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he had spent almost all his career, specialising in the tax treatment of employers and employees. He is a former trustee of TaxAid and a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers. In his spare time, he sings in The Bach Choir, of which he was Treasurer for 10 years.
David Anderson	David Anderson has been a volunteer since 2004 and was appointed Regional Co ordinator for Scotland in January 2006. He will become a trustee in June 2009. David is a chartered accountant and was with KPMG then PWC before moving to the private sector with Ellerman Lines PLC ,based in Leeds.In 1981 he moved to the education sector , initially as a lecturer in East Devon, then as senior lecturer in Portsmouth , later as Head of Business and Management at Guernsey College, prior to returning to Scotland as Assistant Principal at Dundee College in 1993.He retired from this position in December 2005 ; since retirement he has been employed on a part time basis by the Scottish Funding Council as lead finance consultant for the FE sector . David holds several Board positions and is also Board Finance Convenor at Angus College.

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Tax Volunteers is a company limited by guarantee, company no. 4894491
Registered office Artillery House, 11-19 Artillery Row, London, SW1P 1RT
Registered charity no. 1102276