Andy Reed - Chair
Andy is the new chair of the Sport and Recreation Alliance. With a very strong background in the sector he served arguably the UK’s sportiest constituency – Loughborough – with distinction for 13 years.  As an MP he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Kate Hoey while she was Sports Minister and also introduced the 10 Minute Rule Bill for Community Amateur Sports Club legislation.

Now director of his own advocacy company, he leads his local county sports partnership, is chair of the voice of sports volunteers (SSPV) and of the Volleyball England Foundation, as well as a board member of Special Olympics GB and of the ASA. He also continues to turn out for his beloved Birstall Rugby Club where he has played for the last 25 years.

Andy began his two-year term of office at the end of the Alliance’s AGM on 20 July.

Howard Wells - Vice-chair
Howard has spent 36 years in sport and recreation management. He has been chief executive of six different organisations since the age of 37 and set up four from the outset. Howard was the first chief executive of UK Sport and spent 15 years in Hong Kong up to 1996.

As a former senior coach of the FA, Howard also played and coached at Wycombe Wanderers FC. He has been a Member of the Saudi-British MoU Group on sports development since 1996. He is currently a FIFA match commissioner. Most recently between 2005 and 2008 he was CEO of the Irish FA, when he was also a member of the International Football Association Board.

Outside sport he is Chair of Watertight International Ltd, a former director of Only for Sport Management Ltd and Premier Sports & Media Ltd. Howard was a school governor for 19 years, 13 at Shaton College, Hong Kong and six at his old school, Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted.

Howard was elected to the Sport and Recreation Alliance Board in 2000 and was Chair from 2001 to 2005.

Mike Power - Treasurer
Mike Power has been appointed to the position of Treasurer for a two year period.

As former Chief Operating Officer (COO) in London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and subsequently COO in the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), Mike brings a wealth of experience to the voluntary position.

Mike's professional background is in finance, having been a Chartered Management Accountant. Prior to his involvement in the sporting world, he rose to be Vice-President at Procter & Gamble.

Mike took up his position in succession to John Crowther following the Alliance's AGM on 20 July.

John Bell
John has had a highly distinguished career in Sport development and administration and is a consultant in Sport and Culture for Local Government. He was Director of Leisure and Community Services for Knowsley Council on Merseyside from 1992-2006 and then Head of Culture for the London Borough of Newham until 2007.

He is the current Chair of Merseyside Sports Partnership Board and was a member of the North West Sports Board for three years. He is the Chair of Karate England.

Nick Bunting
Nick was previously the Head of Public Affairs & Planning, Funding and Resources at the Rugby Football Union (RFU). Through his work at the RFU he has generated external investment into grassroots sport in excess of £200m to fund facility and grassroots development. Many thousands of young people have benefited from this investment.

Nick has, for many years, been a Director, Company Secretary and Chairman of the Finance Committee at sportscoachUK, the body charged with the development of the standards and the profession of sports coaching in the UK. He was also a trustee and director of sports charity the Rugby Football Foundation (RFF) responsible for the commissioning of its services with external providers and a member of the East Midlands Regional Sports Board where he has the portfolio responsibility for the sports system in the East Midlands. He was also the Chair the Regional Sports Partnership.

Delivering on his personal commitment to the delivery of sport in the East Midlands, Nick also Chaired the Northamptonshire County Sports Partnership (CSP) – NSport which brings together the sports development teams of the nine local authorities, the various national governing bodies and clubs associations in Northamptonshire; along with other interested bodies such as the primary care trusts and the two development corporations in the county.

He has successfully developed a career in the commercial sector within the sports and not for profit sector where he has run, been responsible for, or been on the board/executive committee of over 10 companies. 

Di Ellis CBE
Di Ellis has been Chairman of British Rowing since 1989. In addition she is the rowing representative on the National Olympic Committee, a member of the British Rowing Executive Committee, is a member of the BOA Board, represents the BOA on the Confederation of British Sport and is Chairman of their Staffing and Remuneration Panel.
Di rowed for Great Britain and coxed for England, was previously GB Team Manager, was an active umpire and the first female steward of Henley Royal Regatta.

Di has been a director and Honorary Member of the Sport and Recreation Alliance since 2000 and is its representative on the board of Sports Resolutions. She is also a member of the Staffing and Remuneration Committee of the Alliance, chairing the committee since 2001. Di has been Deputy Chairman of the organisation since 19 July 2005 and has been re-elected.

Pauline Harrison
Pauline is an independent consultant who combines a powerful mix of passion and experience to help manage and facilitate change to people, systems and structures.

Having first trained as a physical education teacher Pauline then moved into coaching and worked for national governing bodies of sport for 20 years, with roles including Director of Coaching and Performance Director, culminating in the position of Chief Executive at England Netball.

Pauline's consultancy work has included executive coaching, strategy development, leadership development, workforce training, conference planning and she has led reviews of governance and modernisation in various sports organisations.

In addition to her consultancy, Pauline holds a number of non-executive positions with different sporting organisations and has been on the Board of Directors of the Sport and Recreation Alliance since 2003 and is currently a trustee of Sports Leaders UK.

Peter King CBE
Peter King became the Chief Executive of British Cycling in 1996 and held that post until the end of 2008 when he stepped down and became an executive director. He has been a director of the Sport and Recreation Alliance Partnerships since 2003. He has enjoyed a stint as a Sport and Recreation Alliance Board member previously (2002 – 2004) and was re-elected to the Board in 2008. He is also a board member of Cycling England and of Commonwealth Games England.

Although in his professional life Peter has been a chartered secretary and accountant since 1971, he has participated in cycling, athletics, football, cricket, table tennis, squash, golf, tennis and badminton at standards ranging from local to national throughout most of his adult life. He has also officiated in most of these sports from club to national level.

Peter was awarded a CBE for services to sport in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of June 2009.

Janice Moore
Janice became Chair of the Keep Fit Association (KFA) in 1993 where she took on a variety of challenging projects, such as the re-branding of the organisation. The re-brand allowed KFA to raise its profile with key stakeholders and increase its membership. Janice also implemented the youth programme and the inclusive exercise initiative, ‘Mature Movers’. She then chaired the independent Awarding Examining Body for KFA for several years.

The KFA became a founder organisation of the Exercise Movement and Dance Partnership and Janice was appointed a Director of the new EMDP Board, representing the KFA.

Before working for the KFA Janice owned her own business for 27 years but it was her passion for sport and exercise that motivated her to train as a KFA teacher in 1970. She is very committed to increasing the teacher base of EMDP and is an active Trainer working around the country for local authorities training and assessing new teachers, whilst still running local classes in her area.  At the 2009 AGM of the KFA, Janice was appointed as National President of the organisation.

After chairing the Sport and Recreaion Alliance’s Movement and Dance Division for four years, Janice was elected to the Sport and Recreation Alliance Board in July 2007 and has recently produced the festival of movement, On Show, at the Royal Albert Hall, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the organisation.

Brigid Simmonds OBE
Brigid was a co-opted member of the Board from 2000 until she was elected in her own right to the Board in 2004. After a year as Deputy Chair she was elected Chair of the Sport and Recreation Alliance (or CCPR as it was then) in July 2005.

Brigid served as Chief Executive of the umbrella organisation Business In Sport and Leisure (BISL) which represents over 100 private sector commercial companies in the sports and leisure industry from 1992 to 2009 and is now Chief Executive of the British Beer and Pub Association.

Brigid is Vice Chairman and a past chairman of the Tourism Alliance, which represents 46 different trade organisations and 200,000 businesses.

She has completed a six-year term on the main board of Sport England, where she was Chairman of Phoenix Sport in Sheffield and Caversham Lakes Trust as well as a former Chair of the Sport England Lottery Awards Panel. She was previously a non-executive Director of Leicester City Football Club Plc and is the author of ‘Developing Partnerships in Sport and Leisure: A Practical Guide’, published by Longman in 1994.

Brigid is married with three children and lives in London. She ran the London Marathon in 1998, 2005, 2008 and 2010 and enjoys running, tennis and music. Brigid was awarded an OBE for services to sport in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of June 2006.

Richard Yule
Richard was elected to the Sport and Recreation Alliance Board of Directors in July 2005 for a two-year term and again in 2007.

He graduated with a BEd Hons in Physical Education from Strathclyde University and gained a Diploma in French Language from La Sorbonne, Paris. He has taught and lectured in PE and worked in sports development roles in the City of Glasgow and the Scottish Sports Council.

Eight-times Scottish table tennis champion, he has travelled the world representing Scotland at world, European and Commonwealth championships (a record 285 times). A former national coach in Scotland and Ireland he has been Chief Executive of the English Table Tennis Association since 1995.