Paul Loft – Director and Vice Chair of the Board
Paul has wide-ranging experience as a General Manager and a Finance Director in a number of Retail businesses.
In a thirty-year executive career in the Retail Sector, he was the Managing Director of Homebase and Habitat, GUS Home Shopping and Shoe Express/Shoe City, and the Finance Director of Argos, Debenhams, and Burton Menswear.
As a Non-Executive Paul sits on the Boards of Peabody, the London Housing Association, where he chairs the Audit Committee and the Customer Services Committee, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, where he chairs the Audit Committee and Black Stork, a charity dedicated to improving rehabilitation after traumatic injury.
In his plural career, Paul looks to bring his commercial experience to bear in organisations with a social purpose.
He is particularly interested in Risk Management, Organisational Change, Customercentricity, and Effective Service Delivery.
Paul was appointed as a Director on 23rd April 2021 and is currently serving his first term. He is the Trust’s link director for Piper’s Vale Primary Academy and was appointed as vice chair of the Board from September 2024.