Ian Bowes

Ian is Treasurer and Trustee of the Kingsclere Community Association, that runs Kingsclere's community centre, the Fieldgate Centre. He is also Chairman of the Kingsclere Performing Arts and Youth Centre a start up charity aiming to save an important community asset from residential development enabling the current use as a performing arts centre to be developed. He is a governor of his local primary school along with being treasurer of the youth football club. He is now applying the skills he developed during his career to support a range of community organisations and activities in rural Hampshire. Now a Fellow of the School of Social Entrepreneurs, after participating in a programme run by Action Hampshire, he focuses in particular on improving the viability and sustainability of the community businesses he works with. In his community work he has seen the vital role that Action Hampshire plays and is keen to provide support in the role of trustee in enabling this work to continue making a difference to the people and organisations it serves.