Sport Legacy Foundation works closely with its coaching teams for the Sport for Life International and Building Character through Sport programmes to set annual targets, ensure that funds are raised and carry out all aspects of governance, safeguarding and risk management.

Registered with the Charity Commission in February 2017, Sport Legacy Foundation has already attracted funding from Sport England, the Big Lottery Awards for All, Birmingham City Council, Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, the Lawn Tennis Association Tennis Foundation as well as trusts and foundations.

The Foundation also supports Sport for Life Barbados and St. Lucia, West Indies, with funding and operational assistance.

TRUSTEES:

Andrew Roberts

After Oxford University where he obtained a degree in English Language and Literature, Andrew worked in commodities for a number of years before qualifying as a solicitor. After practising in England, he moved to the Middle East where he became a partner in Fox & Gibbons (subsequently merged with Dentons). He was based in Dubai and specialized in company and commercial matters until 1996 when he started working in the energy business.

Andrew was a director of various companies including Crescent Gas Corporation and Crescent Petroleum Company. He remains a director of MIVAD Inc, a Delaware company which is devoted to bringing to market a revolutionary heart device, which was invented by two of the leading heart doctors in the USA. He works as a consultant to several companies in UAE and UK and is primarily now based in England.

Andrew has two children and still pursues a number of outdoor and sports activities which he thoroughly enjoys.

Brenda Pope

Brenda is a Management Consulting strategist with almost 40 years of diverse working experience and a demonstrated track record in client transformational and change management assignments around organisational process and technology improvement across the Caribbean. A Barbados Scholar, with a BSc (Hons) from McMaster University, Canada and an MBA (Distinction) from Henley, UK, she also holds the CMC and CISA professional designations.

Brenda is currently managing director of ConsultBP an independent consulting company specialising in technology-enabled transformation. She is also a Director and Chief Project Officer at Global Integrated FinTech Solutions (GIFTS) a FinTech enterprise dedicated to creating a simple and secure payments infrastructure in emerging economies. She recently retired as Advisory partner at KPMG Barbados where for the last decade she also had overall responsibility for KPMG’s management consulting services across the Caribbean.

Brenda has been Chair of Sport for Life (Barbados) since inception.

Dave Chamberlain

Dave is a highly qualified Independent Chartered Financial Planner, also holding Fellowship of the Personal Finance Society and The Chartered Insurance Institute. With particular expertise in financial planning for families, small businesses, people approaching retirement and those with inheritance tax concerns, his day job priorities are helping his newly formed Better Future clients achieve their financial goals, both in the short and long term. He also has over 20 years’ experience across three leading UK insurers and one specialist pensions provider and, in his younger years, gained a BSc Mathematics & Statistics from Warwick University.

He is also keen on watching and playing sport and an active member of his local church in southwest London where he co-ordinates the children’s and youth work, and also sits as a trustee on the Parochial Church Committee.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Jane Power

Jane worked for the British Ski Team and then in FIS Ski, ATP & WTA tennis television production for more than fifteen years producing a successful European show ‘Ford Ski Report’ and ‘Eurosport Tennis’. She joined The Prince’s Trust as Commercial Head in 1997 co-founding The Prince’s Trust Football Initiative which raises £1m+ annually.

Jane’s belief that a close alignment of sport and education empowers and changes the life of young people carried on through her work at the corporate social responsibility company Live Consulting. She established Sport for Life International with Lord Richard Newby in 2007 when it became the legacy programme of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies. Sport for Life learning centres were established in the eastern Caribbean and in Pakistan.

Now Chief Executive of Sport Legacy Foundation, Jane’s experience in fundraising and commercial activity as well as social policy and programme delivery in diverse communities combine to plan and build more opportunities for young people through sport.