RELATED WORK
In October 1996 I was elected President and Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the DP Users Cooperative, later to become Data
Perfectionists, Inc. This was a company with shareholders
throughout the world, meetings, elections and other business being
conducted by electronic mail. The main objectives of the
Corporation were to support existing DataPerfect users and to build on
the foundation of existing DataPerfect software and applications to
provide support for DataPerfect facilities on additional hardware and
software platforms.
In August 2000 I was elected President of the Blind Business
Association Limited. This organization existed to provide a forum
in which people who were vision impaired and self employed could meet
to network and share ideas.
In July 2001 I became the Blind Business Association representative on
the Royal National Institute of the Blind Executive Council. Here
I quickly took up a place on the RNIB Education and Employment
Committee and on the Education and Employment Services
Sub-committee. In January 2002 I was elected to the newly
constituted Board of Trustees of RNIB, where I served for two years.
In November 2006 I was once more elected to the Trustee Board of the
Royal National Institute of the Blind. I was then asked to sit as
a Board representative on the Direct Services Committee, where my
experience in the field of employment and disability would be best used.
During 1997 I served on the Hereford Hospitals Disabled Access
Forum. This was a group set up by the District Health Authority
to advise on disabled access to the proposed new Hereford District
General Hospital.