Our Trustees
The people behind UK/Ukraine Rehabilitation. Each trustee brings expertise from journalism, medicine, business, or charity governance to our four-year relationship with our work in Ukraine.
Dr Sara McNeillis
Dr Sara McNeillis specialises in sleep disorder management and Anaesthesia. She works at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London, she has been a Sleep Consultant since 2011. She is a member of: British Sleep Society, American Association of Sleep Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, Difficult Airway Society and Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists. She has been to Ukraine on several occasions and has been closely involved in the sourcing of specialist rehabilitation equipment for clinics in Ukraine. She also brings unique knowledge and interest to the charity for health and rehabilitation.
Richard Pendlebury
Richard Pendlebury is an acclaimed foreign correspondent and film maker. He covered his first conflict in the former Yugoslavia and has spent much of the last four years in frontline areas of Ukraine.
Neil Barnett
Neil Barnett is CEO of Istok Associates Limited, a London-based intelligence and investigations consultancy focused on Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Previously, he was a journalist in the same regions for 13 years and wrote for The Telegraph, The Spectator and Janes Information Services. He covered the war in Iraq, the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, the eastern expansion of NATO and the EU in the 2000s and Balkan organised crime.
He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and a regular writer on European security matters.
Nick Milne
Nick Milne completed a short service commission in the British Army. After a brief stint in commodities, Nick spent 35 years as a fund manager, and latterly as a private banker, with Barclays and HSBC. Nick is a Trustee of the Light Dragoons Charitable Trust, and the Charney and Lyford Education Trust.
Charlie McGrath
Charlie McGrath is a former member of the British Army, now director of Objective Travel Safety Ltd, specialising in providing safety training to journalists, NGOs and business travellers. Since 2014 he has been to Ukraine 6 times delivering vehicles and rehabilitation equipment, primarily to the Mercy & Health Foundation.
Our Governance
UK/Ukraine Rehabilitation is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (number 1215935). Every pound raised is accounted for in our public filings. You can verify our registration at register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk.
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Working with Mercy & Health Foundation, Kyiv.