Board of Trustees

Sue Booker: Chair of Trustees.
Stephanie Vizer: Trustee

Holly Aird: Trustee
Holly Aird is an English television actress known for playing Forensic Pathologist Frankie Wharton in the BBC1 drama series Waking the Dead, having previously starred in productions such as Soldier Soldier and the 1997 film Fever Pitch alongside Colin Firth.

Aird was spotted by a casting director aged nine whilst at Bush Davies ballet school, and starred in the 1980 dramatisation of the H.G. Wells novel The History of Mr. Polly. In 1981 she portrayed the young Elspeth Huxley in the television adaptation of the latter’s autobiographical book The Flame Trees of Thika. In 1982 she starred as the young Beatrix Potter in The Tale of Beatrix Potter. She was seen in Happy Valley in 1987 with Denholm Elliott in which she played a school girl in Kenya in the 1930s. As well as small parts in many well-known television series, Aird became best known for playing Nancy Thorpe-Garvey in Soldier Soldier. In 2000, she starred as Frankie Wharton in Waking the Dead. Aird has recently done voiceover for various BBC natural history projects (including Wild Mallorca), as well as various TV advertisements. A recent part (2007), was playing a clinical psychologist, in Channel 4’s drama, ‘Secret Life’, about a paedophile.
Since Secret Life, Aird has done a 3 part drama called Torn, a high-profile new series for ITV called Monday Monday (due to air in the Autumn 2009), Law and Order, and is currently filming a new series for BBC called Fashion. Aird is in talks about a new series for ITV called Identities.

Peter Dunleavy: Trustee

Prior to his training as an osteopath, Peter spent fifteen years as a professional contemporary dancer, a decade of which was with London Contemporary Dance Theatre. He therefore intimately understands the way dancers train, and how they have to prepare for performance. He has personal and clinical experience of the kinds of injuries and the consequential problems dancers develop.

He currently consults Osteopathically and Academically for institutions in the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama – The Northern School of Contemporary Dance, where he wrote and delivers the lectures for their undergraduate module for physical awareness and development course. He is also involved with their post graduate Advanced Training Scheme. At Rambert Dance school, he designed and is the director of their Screening, Treatment and Rehabilitation Unit. He also lectures on Anatomy for dancers at Rambert School.
Outside of his Conservatoire commitments he still maintains his close relationship with Richard Alston and dancers and long term association with Darshan Sign Bhuller.

In the past Peter had patients from most of the contemporary Dance Companies, for example Phoenix Dance Company, Henry Oguike Dance Company, Protein, Candoco, Walker Dance and others. Apart from Aerialists and Athletes, his experience in Martial Arts led to Cage fighters, boxers, traditional Martial Artists and yoga teachers visiting his clinic. He is also on the Medical Advisory Panel of Dance UK.

Helen Sherborne: Trustee

Helen has 15 years experience in employment law advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious issues. Her clients include large city corporations and banks as well as executives such as CEOs, directors and television producers. Helen’s particular area of expertise is in acting for individuals in the negotiation of their new employment contracts and in terminations. Helen qualified at city law firm, Herbert Smith where she was part of a specialist Employment Group for over a decade. She also worked in-house at BAA plc as legal director responsible for all employment issues throughout the Group.

Helen qualified as a solicitor in 1994.