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Mrs Elizabeth Padmore

Chair, British Red Cross


Chair British Red Cross; Chair Housing Solutions; Chair The Staff College: Leadership in Healthcare; Barclay Fellow, and Chair of REMCO Green Templeton College, Oxford; Chair of REMCO Brasenose College, Oxford; member, IWF UK; member, Women Corporate Directors; elected Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce; extensive experience at board level in private, public and not-for- profit sectors.

Formerly: Chairman, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2009-18); member of the Board, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority; Council member, Chatham House; Director, National Australia Group Europe; Director, Clydesdale Bank plc.; advisory board, IMD; Strategy Partner, Accenture.

A Governor (2004-), a Member of the Council of Management (2016-), and of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, The Ditchley Foundation.

Honorary Governors

Participants of the Ditchley Foundation internship programme in 2021

The Ditchley Internship Programme

The Ditchley Internship programme offers over 50 students the opportunity each year to become immersed in the ethos of Ditchley.

Antique chairs and sofas at Ditchley Park

Our Home at Ditchley Park

Ditchley Park is part of the world’s heritage and remains as central to our way of working now as it has ever been. 

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