Board of Trustees
Age Cymru has a Board of Trustees to monitor Age Cymru's strategic objectives. The Senior Management work closely with the Trustees to carry out the day-to-day running of Age Cymru.
Chair - Professor John Williams
John is Emeritus Professor of Law having enjoyed a long and distinguished career at Aberystwyth University between 1975 and 2018, primarily researching into the human rights of older people. During his career Professor Williams focused on the impact of the law in terms of older people accessing health and social care. He also undertook extensive research on older prisoners, the design of care homes, international law and ageing, and domestic abuse and older people.
In addition, the professor advised a number of national bodies including the National Assembly for Wales on the drafting of the Social Services and Well-being Act, and the Welsh Government’s Safeguarding and Protection Advisory Committee on safeguarding guidance and regulations.
His expertise was also sought outside of Wales and he became a member of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Human Rights of Older People, provided evidence to the joint House of Lords and House of Commons Committee on the draft Mental Incapacity Bill, and between 2017 and 2020 was a member of the Commissioner for Older People Northern Ireland’s statutory review of Dunmurry Care Home and its treatment of older people.
Deputy Chair - Diane Hughes
Diane retired in 2018 from her post as Corporate Procurement and Contracts Manager at Conwy County Borough Council where she was responsible for delivery of contracting for all directorates within the authority. The role included providing the regional lead for procurement activity in education and social care, delivering a comprehensive framework for the authority on key fee negotiations with service providers.
Treasurer - Jack Mansfield
Jack is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) with extensive experience and a successful track record in the private, public and non-profit sectors. He was a main board director with Companies House between 1992 and 2017 where he was responsible for strategic leadership of the organisation’s finances, IT, procurement, property management. He increased organisational productivity and output through investment in digital services and reporting systems, professional development and multi-skilling of teams and worked to challenge diversity-related issues in a multi-cultural workplace.
Jack has experience as a Non-Executive Director of a waste recycling company owned by largest local authority in Wales and has recently been appointed to the Board of Hafan Cymru (a charity helping those escaping domestic abuse and regaining independence). Jack has previously volunteered as honorary Treasurer with a local MS Society and volunteers with Oasis Cardiff (provider of Refugee Support) and does maths teaching (homework club) with All Communities Equal (ACE) Cardiff.
Angharad Jones
Angharad is a commercial real estate lawyer based in Cardiff. Angharad acts in transactions across the real estate practice but specialises in the real estate aspects of corporate transactions and co-leads her firm's healthcare practice alongside being a Wellbeing champion.
Brought up in Bridgend and having studied and trained in London, Angharad is a proud Welsh speaker. Prior to training as a solicitor Angharad worked for Prostate Cymru as an assistant to the Trustees, which has given her a passion for charity work.
Compliance with the relevant legislative frameworks, partnership working with key stakeholders including advising colleagues on specialist commissioning and contracting matters for social care, housing, regulatory and public protection services. Developing a good understanding of the care sector, including market analysis and risk for internal and external service providers.
Key areas of responsibility in Diane’s role prior to retirement will enable her to support the work of the Charity and she is keen to help develop, expand and promote the presence and influence of the Charity in North Wales. Diane has a range of voluntary experience.
Catrin Davies
Catrin was brought up in Ceredigion and is a fluent Welsh speaker. After graduating, she spent a brief period teaching Welsh at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where she also gained her PhD.
Catrin moved to Cardiff to work as a translator for the newly established National Assembly for Wales in 1999. A few years later she joined the Welsh Government and has worked in various roles in the civil service, leading policy and legislative projects across a range of portfolio areas, including in areas relating to tackling poverty, advice services, early years and childcare, and housing for an ageing population. She particularly enjoys working with external stakeholders in Wales to understand the impact of central government policies on people, businesses and services.
Catrin is driven by her passion to make a difference and to ensure that everyone feels they have a place and a purpose in the Wales we live in today.
Charles Carter
Charles retired in 2017 as Director Regions, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales where he was a member of the Institute’s Senior Management Team. Prior to this Charles worked for Age Concern England as director of the International Longevity Centre and Director of Debate of the Age following a long career in the forces.
Prior to moving to Pembrokshire Charles was Trustee and Director for Age Concern Salisbury District and holds several other appointments including Trustee of Regimental Association and two regimental museums.
Eleanor Sanders
Eleanor brings more than thirty years’ experience working in the public sector within both the NHS and Welsh Government. Initially as a registered nurse in various clinical settings to service improvement initiatives across Wales culminating in bringing together that clinical knowledge and leadership skills into the Welsh Government health department. Being exposed to the political machinery of government has contributed to her desire to influence decision makers both locally and nationally.
She has extensive experience within the third sector, particularly at charity board level; including five years as the Chair of Trustees at Cardiff Foodbank. This has provided her with the familiarity such organisations face balancing ever increasing demand within the capacity to deliver effectively against financial pressures.
As an elected Independent Local Councillor representing her local community in Cardiff, Eleanor saw at first hand many of the issues faced by older people, representing several of them to tackle and overcome many of those identified needs. She continues to be involved in her local community including chairing the organising committee who run the very successful summer and winter festivals.
Eleanor is currently an independent volunteer advocate within the Age Cymru HOPE project. She uses both her lived experience of supporting several older family members to obtain services they required as their needs increased, as well as her knowledge of local provision particularly in the health and social care sectors.
He has also been a member of the Commissioner for Older People’s Advisory Group and a field worker for her Review of Care Homes (2014). He also undertook an evaluation of an Enrichment Programme operating across six care homes in N Wales (2014). In 2016, Steve was appointed for four years to the Commissioner for Older People Wales Audit Committee.
He is a Member of the Commissioner’s Expert Panel on Human Rights for Older People. Steve is the Vice Chair of Caerphilly 50+ Forum and a Trustee of Cymru Older Peoples Alliance. He is a Member of the Welsh Government’s Ministerial Advisory Forum on Ageing. Steve is married with two sons and two grand-children and a keen football supporter (Cardiff City FC)
David Teague
David has worked in public sector IT, data governance and policy roles for almost his entire career to date, and since 2016 he has headed up the Wales team for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a role he still holds. He works extensively with organisations in every sector across Wales, helping them to ensure that personal information is handled fairly and securely.
His career has given him an insight into the challenges of providing effective and fair services to those who most need them. This is something that he is very passionate about, especially in today’s world where technology, when developed with people at the heart of service delivery, has the potential to impact the quality of life for so many people.
Clive Nadin
Clive retired in 2023 after 22 years in the social care sector, having owned and managed a nursing home in North Wales.
As well as leadership and management in care homes, Clive has skills in accounting and payroll and has managed financials for small businesses for over 25 years.
He was an active member of Care Forum Wales, appointed to the board for 13 years representing Conwy, and the North Wales regional Chairman for 6 years. He was keen to ensure that independent care providers could offer the best services to their users, by ensuring fair fee setting methodologies by working with local, regional and national bodies. Clive represented the independent sector on the local safeguarding board for seven years.
Outside of work, Clive was a keen runner, completing a number of marathons and an ultra marathon; an active volunteer and participant at parkrun, and currently enjoys walking and the outdoors.