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Chief Executive: Felicity Porritt
Felicity has highlighted the lack of qualifications held by gym instructors for the Consumers' Association's magazine: Health Which? She is near completion through a masters degree at Bristol University in 'Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health'. She has questioned ways of getting health treatment abroad to shorten waiting lists in 1996 as Radio 4's You and Your's Europe Reporter. Felicity has also presented and reported for BBC News 24 from Brussels, as well as presented Discovery Home & Leisure's Built to Measure programme.
Email: felicity.porritt@move4health.org.uk

Co-Founder: Tor Davies
Tor originally studied physiotherapy before completing a degree in sport and exercise science. She worked as a medical journalist for several years before launching sportEX health magazine, a publication aimed at medical, health and exercise professionals promoting health through physical activity. She has completed a number of exercise instructor qualifications and the focus of sportEX health is to provide health and exercise professionals with the information and tools to promote physical activity safely to individuals with specific medical requirements.
Email: tor@sportex.net
Trustees
  • Deputy Chair: Professor Ken Fox is a leading exercise psychologist based at Bristol University and is scientific editor of forthcoming Chief Medical Officer's report on physical activity and health. Professor advises the Government on physical inactivity and obesity, and on how physical activity affects psychological wellbeing.

  • Dr David Ashton, of Imperial College School of Medicine, is an epidemiologist specialising in obesity. He is director of the UK women’s heart study. Dr Ashton runs three obesity clinics in the Midlands, all emphasising the importance of physical active in maintaining long-term weight loss.

  • Rodney Cullum recently retired as Chief Executive of London's Central YMCA, which houses YMCA Qualifications (CYQ) and YMCAFit (which offers nationally recognised training courses for fitness professionals). YMCAFit also offer a range of additional training modules for qualified instructors wanting to develop their careers further.

  • Tony Davies trained as a chartered accountant and has held a number of financial and general management positions. In more recent years he has acted as a 'business angel' helping to fund start-up businesses. He has been a member of the Institute of Taxation, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and a Member of the Society of Financial Advisers.

  • Professor Ken Fox is a leading exercise psychologist based at Bristol University and is scientific editor of forthcoming Chief Medical Officer's report on physical activity and health. Professor advises the Government on physical inactivity and obesity, and on how physical activity affects psychological wellbeing

  • Jane Giret QC has particular expertise in company, corporate and personal insolvency and partnership law. She consistently features as a leader in the fields of company, insolvency and chancery.

  • Paul Lincoln is the Chief Executive of the National Heart Forum. He formerly worked for the Health Education Authority, where his brief public health inequalities covered physical activity.

  • Sir Alexander Macara is Chairman of the National Heart Forum and former chair of the council of the BMA. Sandy has devoted his life to community medicine and public health.

  • Professor Jerry Morris is a world-renowned exercise scientist who first produced evidence on the protective effects of being physically active for heart disease in the 1950s. He is a government adviser on tackling health inequalities and poverty and is based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

  • Mike Taylor is General Manager of Granada Television and managing director of 3sixty media, a joint BBC/Granada venture coordinating television resources across the north west of England.

Patrons: Move4Health will appoint a number of patrons who will represent the diversity of society.
  • Sir Ranulph Fienne has led over 30 expeditions to the North and South Poles, the Arabian desert, the Nile, and many other remote places. On his Transglobe Expedition in 1982, Fiennes led the first polar circumnavigation of the Earth. This 52,000-mile expedition took three years to accomplish. Fiennes and Charles Burton were the first men to reach both the North and South Poles on August 29, 1982. In 1993, Fiennes and Dr. Mike Stroud made the first unsupported walk across the continent of Antarctica, each man dragging a 500-pound sledge. This ninety-seven day trip was the longest polar journey in history. Then last year the two men ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days.

  • Joanna Hall was cited by the Daily Telegraph in December 2003 as one of the UK's most influential women in fitness. She was named as UK's leading fitness expert by Cosmopolitan magazine last year and diet and fitness adviser on ITV's This Morning programme. Joanna has an MSc in Sports Science from Loughborough University and has been an intern at the Virginia Mason Sports Medicine Clinic in Seattle. She works alongside GPs on a weight management programme in south London.

  • John Inverdale is a BBC sports presenter with a background in news journalism, including the Today programme. John was one of the first presenters on Five Live and was named Sony Broadcaster of the Year in 1997 for anchoring the network's drivetime show. John now works predominantly in television, where he's presented various programmes such as the investigative sports series On The Line and Rugby Special, as well as Grandstand and Sunday Grandstand. With two daughters approaching teenage years John is an advocate for increasing everyday physical activity.

  • Dr Mike Stroud is a consultant gastroenterologist and expedition partner to Sir Ranulph Fiennes. He recently accompanied Sir Ranulph in his 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 different continents. Before this he has provided the medical support for a number of expeditions led by Sir Ranulph.