DARE Trustees

Kate Allsop - Chairman

I have worked as a children’s entertainer for over 30 years. Along side that I have been a District Councillor since 1990 and for the past eight years have held the position of Cabinet Member with the special responsibility of Portfolio for Regeneration at Mansfield District Council.

I have served on school governing bodies over many years and I now am a Board Member of West Nottinghamshire College.  I also serve on the Board of the Alliance SSP, which is the vehicle that brings millions of pounds of funding into the area.

My interest in DARE started many years ago, I was profoundly affected by the death of a friends daughter through drugs, since then I have done everything I can to get the message across to our youngsters the dangers of drugs, and anti social behaviour.

I am proud to be associated with DARE the team work well to promote a healthy lifestyle a message that we take to schools and share with so many of our precious children.

Samantha Pella

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Raj Chandran

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Andre Camillieri

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Steve Elkin

I graduated with a 2:1 Hons degree in Quantity Surveying in 1993, however, I realized that I wanted to be more at the cut and thrust end of projects and so embarked on my career as a Project Manager.

I became a Chartered Surveyor in 1995 as a Quantity Surveyor, Project Management was not officially recognized in the industry at that time. I now hold Chartered Designation as Project Manager both with the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and CIOB (Chartered Institute of Building).  I have represented both of these bodies in various guises – I have served on the board and eventually local chair of the RICS, I was the youngest ever member of the RICS Regional Board for the East Midlands (in my late 30’s!) and have also become an Assessor for people seeking Chartered Designation. I have also been chair of the EMCCG (East Midlands Construction Careers Group) whose remit was to promote professional careers in construction.

My role at Willmott Dixon is to engage with clients to establish and define a brief for a project and bring it into fruition. The Willmott Dixon ethic is not just to take a brief and build the project and walk away, but to bring something extra and invest in our clients. As you know nearly all of our work is through long-term partnerships with clients and the vast majority of it is in education – in fact we are currently the largest (in terms of value of projects) constructor of educational establishments in the UK. It is through our desire to be always pushing forward and investing in the communities where we provide schools that we see that a partnership with DARE could be beneficial to both of us.