BECTU Training Committee
The BECTU Training Committee is a sub-committee of the National Executive Committee and consists of two distinct groups of members: two delegates from each of BECTU's five industrial division plus an additional number of learning reps.
Training Committee 2008
Divisional delegates
Ann Jones (RPD) is the Training Committee Chair. Ann is a bilingual (English and Welsh) media professional with 25years' television production and post-production experience, combined with consultancy, training and lecturing. She also has considerable business start-up and management experience.Ann has contributed to the development Skillset Professional Standards, NVQs, Job Roles and routes to qualifications. She designs, develops and presents training courses and provides media careers advice and guidance. Ann has played a critical role in the establishment of the Training Committee and raising the profile of training as a trade union issue.
Charlotte Simon (BBC reserve) is a radio engineer working in the Control Room in Broadcasting House. She is currently secretary of the Central London Engineering and Technology branch, Chair of the Production SDC and Vice-Chair of the BBC Division.
Mark Scrimshaw (BBC) has been a producer and director of over 80 documentaries features for the BBC beginning in Bristol in 1983, but since 1985 based in Newcastle; he has won several regional, national and international awards for his work.
Always a union member, he started as a branch rep, then joined Nations & Regions SDC, then BBC Division; in 2004 he began work as a full time Lay Official, and in 2006 was elected as Chair of the BBC Division continuing on full-time secondment to the union.
Martin Roberts (A&E) has worked in theatre since 1983 as an electrician and is currently working at the Princess Theatre, Torquay for Live Nation. He is Branch Secretary for the Torbay Branch as well as ULR, chair of the A&E divisional committee, TMA sub-committee and the Live Nation sub-committee.
He is the Project Manager for the BECTU Technical Workshops in Theatre Project, a pilot scheme in the South West for low skilled workers in lighting and sound.
Maurice Marshal (A&E)
Sebastian Barnes (A&E reserve) has worked in a variety of technical roles in theatre since 1972 and is the Technical & Building Services Manager for the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham. He has been a union member since the 1970's and a member of the training committee since it's early years.
He is an A1 Skills Assessor and chair of the recently created Midlands Training Consortium. He has created and delivered various technical courses and local assessments over the last 10 years and was an active participant in the Skillscene qualification structure project.
Winston Phillips (BBC) is a Technology Manager in News Production Facilities . He has been in the BBC for 25 years, being a union member since joining and has been an Equality representative for his local branch.
He is chair of the BBC Black and Asian Forum whose mission is to support the BBC to bring about greater diversity both in employment and portrayal. He is also Secretary to the very successful BECTU Black Members Committee.
Peter Cox LPD
John Handley RPD
Lezli Everitt LPD
Sian Gale RPD (reserve)