Mark Buckley

Trustee 

Mark has been a Sound Engineer for nearly twenty years working on large scale concerts worldwide.

After achieving his Live Sound Diploma from LAE in 1997 he worked for various PA/Sound companies in London and the South East, moving on to mixing bands on tour and in venue’s all over the country. 

He specialises in mixing monitor systems for the most demanding songwriters, artists and musicians in the world.  
 
For the last ten years Mark has worked with artists at the top of their game including Bryan Ferry,  KT Tunstall, Brian Wilson and is currently working with Sir Tom Jones mixing all of his live commitments worldwide.

He lives in Kent, with his wife and son. When he’s not mixing he enjoys riding his sports bike in Europe.

Mel Lewis

Chair of Trustees

Mel was born on 21st June 1956 at Hackney, East London, just out of earshot of Bow Bells, so not a true cockney, but close! Moving to north London at age 7, he went to local schools and ended up going to the London College of Print and went into the family print business.

With an eye for innovation, he moved in to media with his first job at the fledgling commercial radio station, LBC. It was not long before he had his own advertising agency Media Match which soon expanded into the newly opened area of brand sponsorship. Clients included the Milk Marketing Board – The Milk Race and The Army Parachute team. Seeing opportunities in new technology he soon was involved with giant screens and installed them in Heathrow Airport, Manchester Airport, Dusseldorf Airport, Asda Superstores and several British Rail Stations.

Continuing his thirst for innovation, Mel was also given charge to set up Cable TV advertising in the UK and became MD of Independent Cable Sales, the cable industry’s sales operation. Other areas that Mel has helped launch are WAP.com; 3d barcoding, mobile marketing and online display. He currently heads up the EMEA operation for the world’s biggest online humour site and worlds 3rd biggest digital network for Break Media.

Mel has 2 grown up children, is actively involved with various charities and sits on the committee for Habad. He enjoys listening to and playing music and is a keen cyclist.

Peter Rhodes

Treasurer

Peter was a teacher at Eltham CE Primary in Greenwich from September 2003- July 2009. Taking control of PE, ICT, PSHCE, RE and Extended Schools for most of his time there. He was a member of the core SLT and was TLR for Curriculum Enrichment. In addition to this he ran Teacher CPD courses for the SSCO and Set up and ran a u10, u12 and u14 elite system for Greenwich, feeding into the England elite system. Specific Success being the National Basketball Champions 2008(Final at NEC Birmingham on Setanta Sports)  London Youth games Champions 2008, Essex u12 Champions 2008, London u11 RU 2007 and Medway u12 Champions 2009. During his time at the school it moved from satisfactory to outstanding.

In September 2009 he joined Friars Primary in Southwark as Assistant Headteacher, moving up to Acting Deputy Head in April 2010 and then Acting Headteacher in February 2011-Present. During his time at the school it has moved from good to outstanding.

In April 2012 Peter became Headteacher of Hillsgrove Primary School in Bexley.