Roger Manktelow - Chair
Born
Sussex, raised and
educated
London.
BA and CQSW -
Sheffield
University; MPhil
-Cranfield Institute of Technology. Currently retired, former apprentice
telephone engineer, radar test engineer, social worker and Guardian ad Litem.
Most recently manager of the Hillsborough Community Development Trust and the
Hillsborough
Walled
Garden.
My proudest achievements include raising in the region of £40,000 and helping
to raise another £45,000, mainly for the Walled Garden; founding the
Hillsborough and Owlerton Local History Group; the publication of the ‘Complete
Hillsborough by her People’; but mostly securing the long term future of the
Walled Garden.
Founder member of HONF and currently its chairman, currently involved with
the Walled Garden Working Group, Hillsborough Park Regeneration Steering
Committee and the Local History Group.
In one way or another I have been involved in various forms of community
activism for most of my adult life including politics, trade unionism as well
as voluntary work.
I have lived in Wadsley for 25 years with Janet, my partner of 34 years. My
other main interest include politics, history, archaeology and creative
writing, having published several short stories and written six, as yet
unperformed, plays.