Chris Wilks, Chairman of the trustees:
Chris is married with three children. He is an optometrist working in private practice and for the College of Optometrists. His particular interest is the visual effects on learning difficulties.

Trevor Blackmur, trustee and treasurer:
Trevor is a director with a small local company, specialising in tax, with extensive experience in banking and general finance.

Karen Barnes, trustee:
Karen has been a journalist for more than 20 years. She has worked for EMAP and IPC Media and as Associate Editor and Head of the Good Housekeeping Institute for the National Magazine Company. She is now Editor of Delicious magazine.

Peter Kerly, trustee:
Peter is married with 4 children and has worked within the Security market for over 30 years. He specialises in the protection of the elderly and the vulnerable and has extensive experience in business planning, including sales and marketing.

Lynne-Anne West, trustee:
Lynne-Anne was raised in Cape Town, South Africa, but moved to the UK in 1999 with her family. Lynne-Anne has a National Diploma in Public Relations and has worked in both the private and not-for-profit sectors with more than 10 years experience in Marketing Services, Communications and Public Relations.

Gary Welsh, trustee:
Gary Welsh worked for a number of years as a Social Worker in London, UK. He is currently part of the leadership team at Helderberg Christian Church in Somerset West, South Africa and heads up their work into the townships. Co-founder of Ukuthasa and previously an employee, Gary oversaw the Fatyela Square housing project and helped manage the HIV Peer Education Project.

Nicky Welsh:
Nicky Welsh worked in local government and housing association housing management in the UK for over 20 years. In 1995 she moved with her husband Gary to the Western Cape of South Africa, where they both hoped to become involved in township projects. She has worked on a number of projects undertaken by Ukuthasa and currently heads up the charity’s HIV/AIDs training programme.

Lynne-Anne West, fundraiser and administrator:
Lynne-Anne was raised in Cape Town, South Africa, but moved to the UK in 1999 with her family. Lynne-Anne has a National Diploma in Public Relations and has worked in both the private and not-for-profit sectors with more than 10 years experience in Marketing Services, Communications and Public Relations.

Aggie MacKenzie:
Aggie, who shot to fame in 2003 in the Channel 4 series “How Clean Is Your House?”, was born in Aviemore, Scotland. She was taught the art of cleaning by her mother, who deployed a dizzying array of remedies for spots and stains!

Aggie discovered an aptitude for languages while she was at school and studied for a bilingual secretarial qualification in Aberdeen before moving to London to work at the Foreign Office. Says Aggie: ‘On my first day they told me I’d been security-screened and would actually be working for MI6!’ She hadn’t envisaged a career as Miss Moneypenny and after two years of high-level secrets crossing her desk she left to join the press office of the National Union of Students. From there Aggie’s career moved on to journalism and she worked on a string of national titles before becoming associate editor at Good Housekeeping magazine, in charge of the Good Housekeeping Institute. As well as devising and triple-testing hundreds of recipes every year, the institute tests all the latest consumer appliances and investigates new cleaning products and gadgets, so it seemed a natural progression when, in August 2002, Aggie was asked if she’d like to be considered for a TV series. At the screen test she was introduced to Kim ­ and the rest is history. They are currently filming their third series in the UK, but it doesn’t stop there… The appeal of the dynamic cleaning team has now spread to America, too, where How Clean Is Your House? is airing on the Lifetime Channel. Guest appearances have included the Oprah show.

www.aggiemackenzie.co.uk