Executive Committee

Sylvia Baker - Chairman

Sylvia Baker - Chairman

I was born in London but have lived most of my life in Reading in Berkshire. I have one daughter and two grandchildren who live in London.
My working career was very demanding but I always had lots of interaction with people on all.....
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Hilary Neaves - Secretary

Hilary Neaves - Secretary

My secretarial and administrative background has given me the tools to enjoy the secretary's role at Upbeat since 2010. The search for grants has been a major part of my tasks, something which is getting much more difficult each year.
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Valerie Axton - Treasurer - Membership Secretary

Valerie Axton - Treasurer - Membership Secretary

I was born on the last day of the year in Epsom, Surrey and grew up in the 1950’s in Cheam (where Tony Hancock came from). I did not find school very easy especially learning to read. This was not helped by one teacher who used to smack my hand whenever I could not read.... 
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Nicolas Baylie - Committee Member

Nicolas Baylie - Committee Member

I was born in London but have lived most of my life in Reading in Berkshire. I have one daughter and two grandchildren who live in London.
My working career was very demanding but I always had lots of interaction with people on all levels. 
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David Byatt  Committee Member

David Byatt - Committee Member

I was born in 1947 in Southampton, the eldest of five children, with my other four siblings still living there in satellite areas around the edge of the New Forest.

After passing the 11-Plus I went to Taunton's Grammar School and then as an apprentice on to Technical College (as it was called then), and the London Borough Polytechnic for the...
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Alan Chapman - Committee Member

Alan Chapman - Committee Member

Born and brought up in Bury St Edmunds I spent my early years on the Mildenhall Estate and at the Tollgate Primary/Junior School.
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David Deacon - Associate - Committee Member

David Deacon - Associate Committee Member

Despite being born just before the outbreak of the second world war and having a heart attack at the age of fifty nine I consider that I have been a lucky chap.
Lucky to have been born into a loving family in the village of Lavenham, which has been....
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Bill Kettyle - Committee Member

Bill Kettyle - Committee Member

I was born in 1948 into a farming family in County Cavan, in the Irish Republic, as the second of five children. From the age of ten I attended the Royal Cavan Boarding School where I enjoyed taking part in various sports as well as my studies.
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Ilva Maxey - Committee Member

Ilva Maxey - Committee Member

I was born 100 yards from the sea in Blackpool in 1942. My parents ran a boarding house and at the time it was full of American airmen, due to the war. After the war, they ran a fish and chip shop for a few years and later back to running a boarding house, as my Dad had suffered....
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Richard Morris  Committee Member

Richard Morris - Committee Member

I was born on February 11th 1941 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
I have two sisters and had a brother who sadly died from Covid.

I joined the RAF at the age of 19 and served my time at RAF Honington, Libya, Malta, Cyprus, and finally Watton in Norfolk.
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Rosie Rayson - Committee Member

Rosie Rayson - Committee Member

I was born in Bury St Edmunds in 1948 and have lived here all of my life. 

I have one son and one grandson who live nearby.
I left school at 15 and became an apprentice hairdresser progressing through to running...
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Darren Welham - Committee Member

Darren Welham - Committee Member

I was born in Bury St Edmunds and have lived here ever since. I have two lovely children and two beautiful granddaughters.
Leaving school at 16, I started work for a local architect’s office, before re-training to become a Building Surveyor and then a Chartered Building Engineer.
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