Welcome to our new Trustees

Yorkshire Sport Foundation (YSF) is pleased to welcome two new people to our Board of Trustees.

Jodie Bridger (pictured right) is a skilled leader with extensive experience across public service; including Local Authority and the voluntary, community and faith Sector and is Senior Partnerships Manager within Public Health at City of Doncaster Council.

She has led Doncaster’s ‘Local Delivery Pilot’ (now known as Place Partnership), positioning Get Doncaster Moving as one of the leading places nationally in whole systems, place-based approaches to reducing inequalities in physical activity.

Jodie is a proud Yorkshire woman, originally from Bradford and has lived in Leeds since she studied a degree in Sports Development at Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett).  She is a dedicated Hockey player and Vice-Chair of the Board at Ben Rhydding Hockey club.

Karl Oxford (pictured left) works at a strategic level of policy design and programme development for communities, locally and nationally.

His background has been in various aspects of community regeneration and business development, working across the sectors of business, government, voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations; building key and effective partnerships of mutual interest.

He was recruited to the UK Government in 2001 following serious rioting in the North of England. He was the Regional Coordinator for Community Facilitation and Cohesion, and was responsible for co-designing and managing a strategic programme of community engagement and cohesion activities across 8 local authorities in the region of Yorkshire and The Humber.

Brendan Fatchett, Chair of the YSF Board (pictured second from left), commented: “Its great to see the appointment of our two new Trustees.

“Our competitive process means we get such talented and experienced individuals to the Board.

“They bring new knowledge to the group in areas such as the voluntary and culture sector, as well as experience of developing businesses in communities. I am very much looking forward to working with new appointees.”