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Councillor Pat Midgley, Chair of Inclusive and Cosmopolitan City Partnership

Pat is Chair of the Board and has been a councillor for 18 years, now representing the Manor/Castle Ward. She is also the Sheffield City Council Cabinet Adviser for Inclusion. In the past she has chaired the Environment, Education and Housing Committees. She has been a member of the Health Authority until the advent of the Primary Care Trusts. She is involved in many projects in her local community and also serves as a magistrate and school governor.

Jim Steinke, Deputy Chair

Jim Steinke is Deputy Chair of the Board and a voluntary, community and faith (VCF) representative on the Board and Deputy Chair. He is also the Chief Executive of the Northern Refugee Centre, one of the key agencies in Yorkshire and Humberside providing services and influencing strategies for refugees and asylum seekers and migrant workers. He has previously managed homeless projects across South Yorkshire and been a public health and service development manager within the NHS. He currently is the Chair of the National Refugee Integration Forum -Health sub committee. He is committed to linking the whole issue of 'new migrants' to wider social and economic agenda. He considers the Inclusion and Cosmopolitan City Board as the main vehicle in ensuring that the issues of inclusion and diversity are addressed by the wider Sheffield First Partnerships

Joanne Roney

Joanne Roney is Lead Advisor to the Board and is Executive Director of the Neighbourhoods and Community Care Directorate of Sheffield City Council. which includes responsibility for housing market strategy and investment, neighbourhood regeneration, local Area Agreements and Adult Community Care services. She is responsible for delivering over £1 billion worth of regeneration in neighbourhoods over the next 5 years and planning the redevelopment of all areas outside of the City Centre. Joanne is a national member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and a Board member for Burngreave New Deal for Communities

Councillor John Campbell

John is a Labour Councillor for the Richmond Ward and Chair of Manor, Castle and Woodthorpe Area Panel. He first came into local politics in 2003 and his background is as a Trade Union Representative working in the health service. He is the President of Sheffield Trades Union Council, and a UNISON Branch Secretary and Staff Side Chair at the Northern General Hospital. He also chairs the Sheffield Unite Against Fascism and is a delegate to the Sheffield Racial Equality Council. He is a member of a number of community groups supporting the young and the old across Sheffield.

Councillor Clive Skelton

Councillor Clive Skelton was elected to Sheffield City Council in June 2004 and represents the Beauchief and Greenhill Ward for the Liberal Democrat Party. Clive has had a varied career. In 1992 he retired from the armed forces having served for 25 years and became a County Councillor in Suffolk, where he had responsibility for education. He then went to university to study politics, graduating from the University of Sheffield in 2000. More recently he has worked with Community sector organisations including the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation (CISWO). He was Chair of Doncaster Community Empowerment Network and currently Chairs the Sheffield grant giving panel for South Yorkshire Community Foundation.

Ruth Grayson

Most of Ruth’s working life has been spent in higher education. From 2000 to 2004 she was co-ordinator of the Sheffield Employment Bond, a private venture to create and sustain jobs for the long-term unemployed in the city. In November 2004 she became Chair of the Vulnerable People Task Group (VPTG), a unique forum bringing together representatives of both statutory and voluntary agencies concerned with some of the most excluded of Sheffield’s inhabitants. She is also a board member of Voluntary Action Sheffield and Financial Inclusion Services Yorkshire.

David Price

David is a voluntary, community and faith (VCF) representative on the Board. He is also Chair of the Sheffield Branch of Church Action on Poverty (CAP) and a member of CAP's national Council of Management. He has served on the Churches Regional Commission for Yorkshire and the Governing Body of Sheffield College. From 1984 to 1995, he was Personnel Director of the Manpower Services Commission and then of the Employment Service. He has written books and articles about unemployment. Recently he has focused more on poverty issues, including financial exclusion and the living wage

Christine Barton

Christine is a voluntary, community and faith (VCF) representative on the Board. She is also involved in issues concerning social care both locally and nationally and is committed to extending to service users greater choice and control in their lives. As a disabled woman she brings her personal experience of social care to the Board, together with wide knowledge and expertise of statutory organisations, efficient organisational structures and management skills. She is Chair of Inclusive Living Sheffield Ltd, an organisation of disabled people and Acting Chair of Partners for Inclusion, a partnership between disabled people and statutory service providers. She also has a background in education and is a freelance trainer and a Council Member of the General Social Care Council. She is a trustee of Voluntary Action Sheffield and a Director of the Accessible Property Register, a website advertising accessible and adapted residential property for sale and rent.

John Evans

John Evans is the Chief Executive of Sheffield Futures. He is also on the Board of the Sheffield Race Equality Council and is Chair of the 14-19 Advisory Board which is part of the Sheffield First Partnership. His background is in managing integrated services for children and young people and developing services and educational provision which help to build an inclusive society.

Ramchand Samachetty

Ramchand Samachetty is a member of the Sheffield Racial Equality Council. (More information to follow).