OUR TRUSTEES

MAURICE GLASSMAN
(Chairman): Former IBM executive. On secondment, he headed the 1981 Snowdon Project and its successor the Prince of Wales Advisory Council on Disability. In 1982, he joined an information working group which had been set up by Ann Darnbrough in 1981, the International Year of Disabled People. This became the National Information Forum in 1983, and Maurice became its chairman  in 1993.

DEREK KINRADE ISO
(Hon. Treasurer and Company Secretary): Former civil servant. With HM Customs & Excise he became joint head of City VAT office, before moving to the Office of Fair Trading as its Consumer Affairs Adjudicator. He has co-written a number of guides, mainly in the field of disability. He became a trustee in 1985, and now works virtually full time for the Forum as a volunteer administrator and writer.

PHIL BOSE
Chartered Accountant. Former accountant to the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship. He became a trustee in 2002.

LUIS CASTILLO MBA, DMS, CQSW
A Senior Social Worker. Previous posts have included Assistant Director (Homes) and Assistant Director (Cases) for the Civil Service Benevolent Fund, and General Secretary of the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship. He has also undertaken management consultancy. He became a trustee in September 2004.

LINDA CLARKE
Director of the Disability Law Service, which offers legal advice and a casework service for disabled people. Before taking up her present post, she was Head of Services (including information services) at the Spinal Injuries Association and Honorary Treasurer to the Alliance of Disability Advice and Information Providers. She became a trustee at the beginning of 2002.

PETER HAMILTON
Worked for many years with young people, including service with the Youth Justice System. He is now passionately committed to his work for the Westminster Accommodation and Leaving Care Team. He became a trustee in 2006.

ARIF KHAN CBE
Former head legal adviser on consumer affairs at the Office of Fair Trading. He came to Britain at the age of 18, after being blinded in an accident. He now serves on the Board of the Law Society and became a Forum trustee in 2003.

RICHARD LANSDOWN
Educational and clinical child psychologist. Former Head of the Psychology Department at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and author of eight books on subjects related to children. An advisor to several charities, he serves on the Snowdon Award adjudication panel. He became a trustee in 1999.

MARY WILKINSON
Former long-serving editor of the newspaper Disability Now, and an acknowledged expert on disability issues. She has been a trustee since 1988.

DAVID YELDING
Director, Research Institute for Consumer Affairs (Ricability), an independent research charity which publishes unbiased information on a range of products and services for older people and disabled people. He joined the Forum in 1983.