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Jamie Feilden and The Jamie's Farm team

• Jonathan Dimbleby

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby was born in 1944. He was educated at Charterhouse School and at University College, London where he read Philosophy (BA Hons) and where he is a Fellow.

  Jonathan is a writer, broadcaster and film-maker. As a reporter for ITV's This Week programme he covered crises, conflicts and disasters in more than 80 countries. In 1973 he won BAFTA's Richard Dimbleby Award for his coverage of the famine in Ethiopia.

  He was the first presenter of BBC's On The Record from 1987 to 1992. He presented ITV's flagship weekly political programme, Jonathan Dimbleby from 1995 until May 2006. He has presented Any Questions? and Any Answers? for BBC Radio 4 since 1987.

  He was ITV's anchorman for the 1997, 2001 and 2005 general elections. In 1994 he wrote, presented and co-produced Charles, The Private Man, the Public Role for ITV. In 1997 his five part documentary series, The Last Governor, about the final years of British rule in Hong Kong, was screened by BBC 1. His documentaries about Ethiopia and Kosovo were shown by the ITV network in 1998 and 2000 respectively. His three part series The New World War - about terrorism, poverty and the environment - was broadcast by ITV in 2004. In 2008 his five part series Russia - A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby was broadcast by BBC2.

  Jonathan's publications include Richard Dimbleby (1975), The Palestinians (1979), The Prince of Wales (1994), The Last Governor (1997) and Russia - A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People (2008).

  Among his charitable commitments he has been President of the Soil Association (1996 - 2008) and President of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) (1997 - ), Chairman of Index and Censorship (2008 - ), Chairman of the Susan Chilcott Scholarship and Trustee of Dimbleby Cancer Care (Chairman of the Dimbleby Cancer Care Research Advisory Board).

• Roderick James

  

  Rod qualified as an architect in 1973 and quickly established himself in the world of sustainable architecture as the first Director of the Centre for Alternative Technology in mid-Wales, an organisation which has since grown to the point where it is the leading eco-centre in Europe. In 1980, he started out in his own, setting up Roderick James & Company which worked on design, construction, marketing and special projects. He also became a Trustee and Director of the Society for Environmental Improvement in the same year and was a member of the Intermediate Technology Development Group (founded by E.F. Schumacher) building panal for 5 years and on the Boat and Shoreworks committee of the RNLI for 10 years. He has established several successful businesses including Roderick James Architects LLP, Carpenter Oak Ltd and Adventure Capital Ltd. He has been a friend of the Feilden family for 35 years and is keen to use his broad expertise to help this enterprise become successful.

• Peter Clegg

  

  Peter Clegg established the architectural firm Feilden Clegg Bradley with Richard Feilden, Jamie’s father, in 1978. The practice has since become extremely well established, winning the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2008 for Accordia in Cambridge, the first ever residential development to win the award. Peter was educated at Cambridge and Yale and he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. He has 30 years' experience in low energy architecture and the architecture of schools. For this reason, he has an excellent understanding of the impact a positive change of environment can have on students.

  Peter is Chairman of the Trustees for Jamie’s Farm.

• Stephen Costello

  

  Steve is a Teach First Ambassador and taught Business Studies at a Cardinal Pole School in Hackney from 2005 to 2007. In his second year he was a Head of Department and Sixth Form Manager.

  In 2007 Steve won the Teach First Excellence Award and used his prize money to bring a group of students to Jamie’s Farm and commission a documentary of their experiences (Life Outside Hackney). He was amazed by the reflections of students who had previously felt so alienated from society. Furthermore he has witnessed the lasting impact of the charity as several of his former students have returned to the farm to act as role models for younger students.

  Steve is now training to be a solicitor with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP but views Jamie’s Farm as the perfect opportunity to remain involved in education, especially on a project that he passionately cares about. 

• David Townsend

  

   

  David Townsend
  David has spent the vast majority of his working life in Banking. After taking a degree in economics and politics he joined Barclays where he worked for 25 years in a multitude of roles, eventually specialising in risk management where amongst other things he was responsible for the risk measurement system, the Basel 2 programme and chairman of the credit committee. He moved to Standard Chartered bank in 2004 as group Head of Risk Management and Reporting from where her retired earlier this year. He now divides his time primarily between risk related research and training oarsmen for the 2012 Olympics.