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Children in Grief board members

Ken O'Neil - Chair of the Barnardo's Children in Grief board
Chair of the Children in Grief Board
Professor Ken O'Neill

The appeal has to date raised over £500,000 in pledged or donated money.

We have a board of influential business people in place who are giving us the benefit of their expertise. The board includes:

  • Professor Ken O’Neill - Chair
  • Professor Terence Brannigan – President, CBI NI
  • Mary Carberry – Financial Advisor
  • James Hagan –  Chairman, Hagan Homes Ltd
  • Alan Hunter  - MD, Prestige Underwriting Services Limited
  • Sandara Kelso-Robb - Executive Director Lloyds TSB Foundation NI
  • Leslie Morrison – Former Chief Executive Invest NI (retired)
  • Will McKee –  Chairman, Amtec Medical
  • Michele McKendry – Director, Young Enterprise, London
  • Mike Nesbitt – Broadcaster and politician
  • Cecil Russell – Regional Director, HSBC NI

In August the Children in Grief Appeal was publicly launched at a luncheon held by HSBC NI for 400 leading business people at Belfast City Hall and was supported by HSBC Group CEO Michael Geoghegan CBE.

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