Healthy Ambitions Suffolk Ltd Has First Board Meeting

The new Healthy Ambitions Suffolk Ltd (a Charity limited by Guarantee) Board met for the first time on 1 September 2011.

At the meeting it was confirmed that the organisation will have a trading arm, HASFutures Ltd.

The Healthy Ambitions Suffolk Ltd Board consists of:

Dr Peter Funnell, Chair
Sally Hogg, Company Secretary
Dawn Henry
Dr Don McElhinney
Cara Miller
Lina Hogg
Emma Hibbert
Stephen Singleton
Dr Amanda Jones

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The Board invited proposed board members of HASFutures Ltd to attend the meeting and agreed to meet as ‘joint Boards’ until April 2012 while Healthy Ambitions Suffolk is developing.

Board members of HASFutures Ltd will be:

Dr Peter Funnell, Chair
Sally Hogg, Company Secretary
Stephen Singleton
Terry Baxter
Marilyn Martin
Paul Winter
Dr Mike McCullagh

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Commenting on the new charitable structure of Healthy Ambitions Suffolk, Dr. Peter Funnell, Executive Chair said that he and his colleagues are determined to encourage and support people to enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

“Suffolk is generally a pretty healthy county”, says Dr. Funnell, “but too many people still die early or experience long-term heart problems due to lifestyle issues such as poor diet and lack of exercise. Healthy Ambitions Suffolk is committed to address this in new and sustainable ways whilst recognising the current realities of public spending reductions”.

He added that the new Healthy Ambitions Suffolk Boards are composed of talented and enthusiastic local people offering insight and expertise across the business, public and third sectors.

At its first meeting, the new board resolved to develop the charity’s work over the next few months with an initial focus on helping local businesses to improve the health of employees.

“Having healthy staff means having a healthy business”, emphasised Dr. Funnell. “Our annual gold, silver and bronze business awards are already recognised across the county and we have recently introduced a new small business award for workplaces with less than 75 staff”.

Healthy Ambitions Suffolk is offering tailor-made packages of help to businesses of all sizes.

Dr Funnell concluded by saying that the new structure of Healthy Ambitions Suffolk will enable the organisation to attract funds and to focus resources to make Suffolk the healthiest county by 2028.

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