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Trustees
Our Trustees play a vital role in guiding the work of CABA. We are always interested in hearing from people who would be prepared to serve as Trustees when vacancies arise
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Nick Brooks
President
Nicholas Brooks FCA, DChA, is President of CABA and a partner at Kingston Smith, where he heads up the not for profit sector group. Nick has over 20 years’ experience in providing audit and advisory services to the not for profit sector. He was one of the first groups of practitioners to obtain the joint ICAEW and Cass Business School Diploma in Charity Accounting and is a fellow of the Institute of Fundraising. Nick is one of the leading UK advisors concerning audit, accountancy and tax for charities and writes and lectures on a wide range of charity matters. He chairs, both the ICAEW’s Charities Technical Committee and the Charity and Voluntary Sector Special Interest Group. He is a judge for the annual Online Charity Financial Reporting and Accounts Awards and Treasurer and Committee member of the Charity Law Association.
Richard Wade
Vice President and Chair of the Support Services Committee
Richard Wade was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2007. He is one of two Vice Presidents at CABA. He chairs the Support Services Committee which has delegated responsibilities from the Board for CABA’s Operations. Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Cooper Brothers in London, and served with various successor firms as an audit partner until his retirement from PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2001. He held a number of management positions including Partner in Charge of the Northampton and Milton Keynes offices, and Chairman of the UK Middle Market Sector, which encompassed the firm’s not-for-profit practice. His work for clients included public and private companies in a wide variety of industries, and he has experience of living and working overseas. He was engaged in mentoring and partner development programmes at PwC. Since leaving PwC he has held non-executive positions with family businesses. He has also worked as a consultant advising on the impact of systemic culture on individual and team performance.
Richard Wyber
Vice President and Chair of the Investment Committee
Richard Wyber was elected to the Board of Trustees for Chartered Accountants’ Benevolent Association in 2006. In 2011 he was appointed as Vice President and is also the Chair for the Investment Committee. He has a Masters from Cambridge University and has gained valuable experience within a variety of sectors. Richard spent 22 years working at Price Waterhouse and became Partner in 1979 until 1991. From 1991-1997 he was the Director of Finance at Thomas Coram Foundation for Children which supports the UK’s most vulnerable children, young people and families. During this time he also served on the committee of the Charity Finance Directors’ Group and as a founding committee member of the Charity Investors’ Group. From 1997-1998 Richard was Secretary for London Society of Chartered Accountants and a Director in Lord Rothschild’s family office from 1999-2005. Richard became an Assistant Curate in July 2006 and then an Associate Priest in 2010 for the Parish of Wanstead.
John Heskett
John Heskett has been the Director of Chartered Accountants' Benevolent Association Trustees Ltd since 1992. He was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2006 and President from July 2007 to June 2010. He retired from Baring Asset Management in 2002 after 30 years service and as Chairman of Heartwood Wealth Group in 2011. Presently he is a Director/Trustee of Intermediate Technology Development Group, a Trustee of ITDG's pension plan and an associate of EPIC Investment Advisors, which provides consultancy services to the pensions industry. John is also a Member of the Investment Advisory Committee of Imperial College, London University.
Tom Hughes-Parry
Chair of the Personnel Committee
Tom Hughes-Parry was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2003. He chairs CABA’s Personnel Committee. After 10 year’s working for a ‘big four’ firm in London he became a partner in Exeter-based Chartered Accountants, Beer Aplin/Thomas Westcott in 1979, remaining with then until 2006. He is now a part-time consultant with his former firm, and Bursar and Secretary to the Governors at The Maynard School in Exeter. A former chairman of the Institute’s Charity and Voluntary Sector Group, Tom also served as Secretary of the Governors, and then a Trustee, of the Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education. He is involved in a number of local charities.