GFTU BGCM 2017

Designing, project management and commissioning membership/CRM or other systems

Project managing and/or delivering system upgrades and migrations

Billing & cost reviews.

Chris Jury, producer GFTU Liberating Arts Festival, Director Public Domain. Chris studied Drama/English at Hull University and began working as an actor in the theatre with such names as Mike Bradwell, Danny Boyle and Anthony Minghella; And with companies as diverse as Hull Truck, The Bush and Stratford East. He also worked extensively in film and TV appearing as Mr Knowles in Grange Hill (circa 1982), as Deadbeat in Dr Who (circa 1985), in Anthony Minghella’s, What If It’s Raining, Stay Lucky with Dennis Waterman and most notably as Eric Catchpole in over 50 episodes of the BBC’s long running series, Lovejoy. Since Lovejoy he has turned his attention back to writing and directing but has also appeared as a regular in Alamo’s Starting Out and Noah’s Ark for ITV. He chairs the Midlands TUC culture committee and is a member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain and is directing one of his plays for young people and community organisations called The Liberty Tree. Steve Orchard is currently managing director of Quidem Radio and a Trustee of the GFTU Educational Trust, he was operations director of GCap Media. He graduated from Oxford University with two degrees - one in history, and a Masters in applied social studies. He became a hospital porter active in NUPE and also running the hospital’s radio station and then a social worker (specialising in families and teenage issues) active in NALGO but he then switched to the radio industry, working as a football reporter and a breakfast DJ. He has worked his way through the ranks of Britain's largest commercial radio groups including Capital FM. A rock fanatic, he owns a vintage Rockola jukebox and still DJs on his own Cortina Nights programme. Berkan Ozturk MP, Berkan was elected HDP MP for city of Agri (the mount Ararat) area. He was also detained recently and has case pending against him in the Turkish government’s clamp down on all opposition. He graduated from SOAS London, returned to Kurdistan and worked as a lawyer and head of Human Rights Association in Agri until he was elected MP. He speaks Kurdish, Turkish and English. Edda Nicolson, is currently completing her first degree in history at Wolverhampton University and has been appointed PhD student working on the latest history of the GFTU. Edda was born in Iceland and has been active in UNISON and NUS. Dr Alice Prochaska, was elected Principal of Somerville in the summer of 2009, and took up the position in September 2010. She wrote the first history of the GFTU and has recently been elected to service on the GFTU Educational Trust Board of Trustees. Alice received both her BA and D.Phil. in Modern History from the University of Oxford, where she studied at Somerville College. She started her career as a museum curator and subsequently as an archivist at the Public Record Office

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