Rod Aldridge

Rod Aldridge is an entrepreneur with over 40 years experience of working in the public and private sectors.

He is the founder of the Capita Group retiring in July 2006 as Chairman. Subsequently he established The Aldridge Foundation to continue his work on public service reform and to focus on his charitable activities.

• Educational underachievement & Social Exclusion
• Public Service Reform Partnership and Development
• Community Engagement

v

Rod Aldridge was appointed as Chair of v in April 2006 following an open recruitment process led by Ian Russell CBE, the author of the Russell Commission Report on Youth Volunteering and by the young people associated with the project.

His role is to work with the Chief Executive, Terry Ryall, and the Board of Trustees to deliver the recommendations of the Russell Commission Report.

The Board of Trustees includes four young people from the v20 Youth Advisory Board together with individuals drawn from the Third Sector, business and sport, namely:

Name	Position
Manny Amadi	CEO and founder, Cause & Effect
Beth Baylis	v20
Justin Davis Smith	Director, Institute for Volunteering Research
Fiona Dawe	Chief Executive, YouthNet
Dame Tanni Grey Thompson	Former Paralympic Champion Athlete
Larissa Joy	Partner and Chief Operating Officer, Actis
Oona King	Chair, Tower Hamlets Advocacy Network & Community Support (THANCS)
Phillip Ly	v20
Rajay Naik	v20
Trevor Pears	Director, William Pears Group and Chief Executive, The Pears Foundation
Emily Reynolds	v20

v has been set up to inspire a new generation of young volunteers across England.  Its aim is to revolutionise youth volunteering and involve 1 million new volunteers between the ages of 16 and 25 years.

v is led by the cares, interests, passions and beliefs of young people. The charity is spearheaded by a Youth Advisory Board called v20 who act as advisors and are involved in all aspects of the charity's work.

v works in partnership with the public and private sector and with voluntary and community sector organisations to increase the quantity, quality and diversity of volunteering opportunities available to young people. v commissions full-time, part-time and short term opportunities for young people from different backgrounds. By supporting these opportunities more young people will be involved in, for example, community radio, improving the environment, running sports clubs and international projects.

A Government instigated report - The Russell Commission Report - led to the founding of v. The Government pledged initial funding support of up to £100 million including £50 million in matched funding for private sector funding for volunteering projects.

v was established with seven original founding partners:

• The Hunter Foundation, ITV, KPMG, MTV, Sky, Tesco and T-Mobile

There are now a number of other partners aligned with the organisation:

• Accenture
• ARK
• BAA Communities Trust
• Barclays
• BT
• Channel 4
• Charles Hayward Foundation
• Diageo
• Deutsche Bank
• DSG international
• Dulverton Trust
• eBay
• Edge
• Emap
• Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
• Football Foundation
• Galaxy FM
• Garfield Weston Foundation
• GCap Media
• HBOS Foundation
• HSBC
• Jack Petchey Foundation
• John Laing Charitable Trust
• JPMorgan
• Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales
• National Grid
• Norwich Union
• npower
• Peacock Charitable Trust
• Premier League
• Sainsbury’s
• SITA Trust  
• Sovereign Capital
• Tate & Lyle
• Thames Foundation
• United Biscuits
• Veolia Environmental Trust
• Virgin Media
• Virgin Unite
• The Vodafone UK Foundation
• Waste Recycling Environmental Limited
• Whitbread