Nick Pettingale - Chairman, IDPE

Nick began his career as a Graphic Designer, specialising in company branding and point of sale material for businesses across Europe. During his design career he visited friends in Ethiopia at the time of the ’85 famine which set him on a path of fundraising and charity work. After helping to establish two charities there and a UK based charity focussed on disadvantaged young people in the Midlands, he renewed his business career operating at board level in three national and international companies.

More recently Nick was a consultant trainer/mentor for a large London based charity helping the homeless and latterly set up a charitable Foundation at Stamford Endowed Schools in Lincolnshire. After funding some small capital projects he successfully launched a Bursary Fund which is currently supporting more than 28 children in the Schools.

Nick has recently been appointed Development Director at Ellesmere College, Shropshire. He is looking forward to his new role saying:

‘It is refreshing to work in such a friendly place, which has managed to hold both entrepreneurial, innovative thinking and traditional values together, and to be part of a school which deliberately focuses its resources on the individual child achieving their best, rather than a set of league table results’.

Nick is also a board member for World Emergency Relief. To relax he loves the gym, water colour painting, fine wines and cooking, although not all at the same time. He remains passionate about issues of justice and social inclusion.

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