Chair / Trustee Joined BLGC in July 2022. 

Edward Nally is a Solicitor.  He is a Consultant and former Senior Partner of Fieldings Porter Solicitors of Bolton and was President of the Law Society of England and Wales in 2004-2005.   

He was a former Governor of the College of Law until 2018 and a former Chair of Governors at Pendleton Sixth Form College, Salford.  He was a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission from 2006-2011, a member of the Legal Services Board from 2011-2016, a member of the Queens Counsel Appointments Committee from 2015-2020 and is a member of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal having served as its President between 2016 and 2022.   

He is a Charity Trustee of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford and of Caritas Diocese of Salford.  

Trustee Joined BLGC in July 2022. 

Managing Director of Propelled, a brand consultancy specialising in supporting B2B companies with their market positioning, customer acquisition and communication strategy. 

Ann Founded her first business in 1999 which she merged in 2016 and exited in 2021. She is a Trustee of BLGC and Non-Executive Director at Capacity. 

Joined BLGC in June 2021. Dr Andras Gyula Juhasz is a Retired Psychiatrist in Bolton. 

Trustee Joined BLGC in October 2018. Executive Director, External Relations at University of Bolton. 

Trustee Joined BLGC in May 2008. 

Trustee & Chair of Your Space in Bolton CIC 

 Until April 2007, Dave was Senior Vice President of Reebok International responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and is Honorary Vice President of Bolton Wanderers Football Club. A former teacher, and business leader, with 23 years of international marketing and senior business management experience, Dave has an Honorary Fellowship from UCLAN.  Since his retirement Dave has also volunteered his time and expertise as the Chair for Bolton Leisure Trust; Trustee for Bolton Wanderers in the Community.  He is also the former Chair Bolton Vision Partnership and served as a Non-Executive Director for a FTSE 100 company.  Chair of BLGC for fourteen years, Dave stepped down from this role at the end of March 2024 but remains a very active Trustee. 

Trustee Joined BLGC in September 2021. 

Kathryn is a strategic advisor to the youth charity OnSide and was Chief Executive of OnSide for ten years until 2022, driving considerable growth of the OnSide Network and development of the OnSide Model. 

Prior to OnSide, Kathryn has a long history working with and supporting young people through voluntary work. This included time as a rape crisis counsellor, setting up and running incest survivors’ groups, fostering and more recently by mentoring young people. 

Kathryn is an Economics and Accounting graduate from Bristol University with a Cranfield MBA. Her previous career was in industry, specialising in start-ups, rapid growth, change management and mergers. 

Trustee Joined BLGC in September 2024. 

 Lisa is a Partner and Head of the award-winning Tax team at Cowgills.  She is also one of nine equity partners who lead the strategic management of the Cowgills business.  

 Responsible for operational management of the tax services delivered by Cowgills, Lisa oversees a number of different specialisms including trusts, VAT, M&A transactional tax, corporate and personal tax compliance and R&D.   

She joined Cowgills in 2015, moving her family over from Manchester to settle locally in Horwich.  Much of her career has been spent advising owner managed businesses for regional and national accountancy firms, including a period of working in international tax in the Middle East.  

Lisa is also committed to mentoring and guiding women both within and outside the business. She understands the unique challenges women face in their professional lives and offers valuable insights and guidance and leads events to empower women. Lisa was the first female partner to join Cowgills and has encouraged recruitment and internal promotion of women across the business. 

Trustee Joined BLGC in November 2019. 

Group Chief Executive at Bolton at Home since 2023. Noel has worked in the social housing sector for many years and has held executive roles for the last 17 years for a range of providers across the Northwest but has worked in Bolton since 2015.

Trustee Joined BLGC June 2021. 

Stephen Greenhalgh joined the board in June 2021.  His earlier career included military service, mainly in Germany, as a troop commander on the Harrier Force.  Following that he was employed in local government in Community Development roles amongst the poorest communities of Lancashire and Cumbria.   

In the latter part of his career Stephen worked in charity leadership.  He was the Chief Executive of St Catherine’s Hospice, Lancashire (an independent local charity) from 2005-2020, he also represented NW hospices on the national body and as a member of the Board of Hospice UK from 2010-2017.  His PhD with the University of Glasgow researched change and development in English Hospices that, as a case study, has relevance more generally to charity development. 

Stephen has experience as a volunteer in different settings including as a school governor, a hospice trustee and with local churches.  His degrees are in Theology and Integrative Counselling, and he is a qualified counsellor and commercial mediator.  

Stephen enjoys fell walking and trying to keep up with his children, grandchildren and two Labradors.