Hope for Tanzania

Trustees

Martin Grosvenor

Professionally Martin worked for different pharmaceutical companies in R&D scientific and project management and contract negotiation roles. He has visited Tanzania many times, during which he has led teams, been attracted to the beauty of the country and its people and been greatly encouraged him how targeted investment can pay rich dividends. His Christian faith provides the motivation for the ongoing work in Tanzania and he continues to go back there to co-ordinate projects, encourage Tanzanians and be himself encouraged. Since retiring he has worked and volunteered with Derby City Mission and has now re-trained as a part-time care assistance which allows him to serve elderly people. Martin and Philippa are founder Trustees of Hope for Tanzania.

Philippa Grosvenor

Philippa is a primary school teacher with 30 years of experience at different schools in England and Sweden. She has visited Tanzania on many occasions and spent time teaching at the Tuishime School and training teachers. She has run a number of fundraising events at her current school and applied for a Global Schools Partnership award to link her school with the Tuishime School. Through her contacts in the Education Department she has been able to obtain reading books for the School library. Philippa has volunteered with UK charities and has been the secretary of Hope for Tanzania since its origin. Philippa is married to Martin and they have two girls.

Dick Beath

Dick Beath qualified as a chartered certified accountant after a progressive career in the British Infantry. Dick was head of investment and commercial planning in a large NHS Trust in the South West and from this relatively stable base, has been involved together with his family in helping overseas in a number of missionary and humanitarian projects. Dick now works in the charity sector as a financial officer. He has been the treasurer of Hope for Tanzania since it was started. He is also involved in a school's project in South Sudan to which he provides financial and strategic advice.

Viv Quick

Viv is a nurse who works in the field of young people's sexual health. She has been out to Tanzania twice to give HIV/AIDS and sexual health information. Her daughter and son-in-law spent 2 years with VSO in Dodoma. She was awarded the MBE in 2008 for the work she does with young people. She feels a strong affinity to Africa and wants to help improve all aspects of health and education which we so often take for granted in England. Viv lived in a Christian community for about 8 years where she developed a real sense of the issues surrounding equity and disparity. She lives in Bath.

Maggie Keeley

After a degree in music and teacher training, Maggie travelled in Tanzania and was struck by the beauty, poverty and great generosity she found there. Maggie has worked in primary school teaching and, in the past, has taught children and adults with special educational needs. She has offered shared care for individual children with multiple disabilities and been a volunteer with a number of charities and as a Chair of Governors in a local school. Her view is that Christian values give hope for the people we serve in Tanzania as well as needy people everywhere. She has been to Tanzania on multiple occasions spending an extended time there in 2022.

Hannah Greenfield

Hannah was born into a missionary family and spent her early childhood in Nigeria where she developed a love for sub-Saharan Africa. She started her career as a research chemist and is now a departmental manager in a chemical R&D company where she also gained international experience in project management. She has been on mission trips to Uganda and Tanzania and in 2019 took a sabbatical to work with local church pastors in Tanzania. She is involved in church leadership and has led a number of church based courses.

Solomon Tackie-Oblie

Solomon was born in Ghana and came to the UK about 40 years ago. A solicitor by profession he worked for 15 years in legal practice and business management of a legal firm. He taught in the higher education sector for more than 20 years and also served as a staff governor on the board of corporation of a further education college taking responsibility for quality standards, training programmes including diversity and equality. He has been a church elder and worked for Citizens Advice Bureau as a volunteer. Solomon has worked in the voluntary sector as a founding trustee, chair and vice chair of a development charity working in Cameroon. Now happily retired, he remains active, volunteering in his church and looking after grandchildren.

Responsibilities of Trustees