Over the last 30 years, David has been passionate about improving places, the environment and people’s quality of life; successfully translating this into practice through leading roles in Local Government and the Charity Sector.
With significant experience of working in partnership with public, private and voluntary sector agencies, David has delivered major funding programmes regenerating places and people, within highly political environments, and in some of the most disadvantaged parts of the country.
As Project Director, he developed the Greenwood Community Forest Partnership in 1999 from a small project team within Nottinghamshire County Council, to a successful, sub-regional Partnership Body, made up of 2 Non-Departmental Government Bodies, 7 Local Authorities and key stakeholders.
As CEO he led the ‘change programme’ that turned Leicester’s £50m New Deal for Communities from a grant programme in crisis in 2004, to becoming the best performing programme in the country by 2008. In this role, he also represented the UK Government at the European Urban Renewal Convention in 2008.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts & Commerce and also a Board Member and Trustee of Healthwatch Nottingham & Nottinghamshire.