ICVS Board
Alex Skailes (Chairman)Alex is a consultant specialising in the non-profit sector. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and spent a large part of her career with them working in London prior to taking a career break to spend time with the family and to relocate to Suffolk. She returned to work moving into the non-profit sector and has a particular interest in leadership, collaborations and mergers. Alex is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, holds the Institute’s diploma in Charity Accounting and has a MSc with distinction in Voluntary Sector Management and Leadership from Cass Business School, London. She is married with three children.
Sue Clements (Interim Chief Executive)
Sarah Adams (Trustee)
Sarah is the director of the Regional Centre for Diversity, at Suffolk New College, in Ipswich. A change manager with over 20 years experience, she has worked at director level at The Big Lottery Fund and Common Purpose and led the bid to establish Legacy Trust UK and was that organisation’s launch director. She also undertakes consultancy and business coaching work on behalf of a number of national organisations.
Shpetim Alimeta (Trustee)
Shpetim is currently working as Organisational Development Adviser for The Basis Project in East of England and has served as a Trustee of ICVS since on 2008.
He has more then five years of experience providing consultancy advice, training and support for many community organisations across the Eastern Region, on all aspects organisational development and capacity building, such as: Governance & Legal Structures, Business Planning, Project Development, Project Outcomes, Need Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation, Sustainable Fundraising and Financial Management.
He has helped successfully many Community Organisations in the region and Suffolk by giving advice on how to strengthen the internal organisational infrastructure and by guiding them become more sustainable.
Shpetim is certificated by Charities Evaluation Services as an Outcomes Champion. He is also a PQASSO Mentor with a long experience in advising voluntary and community organisations on implementing quality assurance systems, evaluating their impact and measuring outcomes of their work.
Shpetim also provides high quality training, advice and one-to-one support to new social enterprises and has worked closely with a number of charities & social enterprises to help improve their Business Plan and Fundraising Strategy or help them to increase the organisational effectiveness and sustainability.
Ferial Evans (Trustee)
I have four children, five grandchildren and one great grandchild. I was a single mother from when my children were very small. I kept a little smallholding with mostly goats and chickens. I sold homemade yoghurt and cheese and eggs. I also made celebration cakes and had a small catering enterprise. Latterly, I taught Cake Artistry. I was Secretary of the PTA and Parent Governor at my children’s’ high school and a Community Governor at the local primary school. I also undertook work as a freelance artist and journalist which I still do. Currently, I am Chairman of Little Bealings Parish Council. I also represent Suffolk Coastal on the Executive of Suffolk Association of Local Councils (SALC) and on Suffolk LINk. I am an officer on the Executive Board of Ipswich Arts Association.
Apart from my interest in art and word, I seek to revive an interest in the art of public speaking. I write the newsletters and am publicity coordinator for three arts organisations and I write occasional articles for arts magazines and concert reviews for the local papers.
Roger Fern (Trustee)
Lisa Hayward (Trustee)
Nadia Cenci (Trustee)
Liz Louch (Co-opted Board Member)
