Tim Cole (Vice Chair)
Tim has worked as a counsellor with a family support centre and was a founder of the Wesley Housing Project (Keighley). He is now working with small and medium sized companies helping them with HR issues. Tim has just completed a term as Chair of the Yorkshire Region Flood Defence Committee where he oversees the annual budget for flood alleviation. Other roles Tim is responsible for include his position as Deputy Leader on North Yorkshire County Council where he is responsible for the Business and Consumer Services Directorate. He is also a Justice of the Peace where he sits as a magistrate in Caldergate and the Chair of the Blackshaw Environmental Action Team working with local people to create a sustainable community. Finally as an energy consumer's champion, Tim was a non executive director of Energywatch where he provided an independent voice for vulnerable customers and those in fuel poverty.