Our Trustees represent a broad spectrum of academics, journalists and people active in community work.

Susan Himmelweit

Professor of Economics at the Open University, Sue is also an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics and a member and former chair of the UK Women's Budget Group (insert link - http://www.wbg.org.uk), a think tank that advises the UK Treasury on the gender implications of economic policy. She is currently engaged in research on the influence of social norms on mothers’ decisions about work and childcare as part of the ESRC’s programme on the Future of Work. Her last book was Inside the Household: from Labour to Care (2000).

Marion Kozak

Marion trained as a historian specialising in early 20th century British women’s social history and the inter-war years. She worked for many years in the voluntary sector’s campaigning organisations around feminist concerns and in social policy research. She has been a trustee of the Lipman Miliband Trust since 1995 and its Secretary since 2001.

Doreen Massey

Professor of Geography at the Open University and a trustee of the Lipman Miliband Trust since 1990, Doreen has written widely on regional inequality, globalisation and urban issues. In 1997 she co-founded Soundings (http://www.l-w-bks.co.uk/journals/soundings/contents.html)– a journal of politics and culture – which she continues to co-edit. She is a member of the national council of Catalyst (http://www.catalystforum.org.uk/), the left wing think tank. Her latest book is For Space (2005).

Martin McIvor

Martin McIvor is a researcher at the public services trade union UNISON, and edits the left policy journal Renewal. He was Political Editor of Red Pepper magazine from 1998 to 2002, Director of the left think tank Catalyst from 2002 to 2005, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for International Public Health Policy in 2005-2006. His academic interests lie in the areas of political philosophy and the history of ideas.

John Schwarzmantel

John has been a trustee of the Lipman-Miliband Trust since 1982. Between 1985-2001 he was our treasurer and from 1994-2001 he also acted as chair and secretary. He is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds where is currently Director of the Centre for Democratisation Studies (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/research/democStd/). His main academic interests are in political theory, with a particular focus on questions of nationalism, democratic theory and political ideologies in contemporary politics. In April 2001, he organised a conference on behalf of the Trust on ‘Nationalism and the Left’ with wide participation of speakers from the UK and abroad. His most recent publications include Citizenship and Identity (2003), The Age of Ideology (1998) and he is co-editor of Democracy; a Reader (2001).

Hilary Wainwright

Longstanding editor of British left green magazine Red Pepper (insert link www.redpepper.org.uk) and fellow of both the Transnational Institute (TNI) (www.tni.org) in Amsterdam and the Centre for Global Governance at the LSE, Hilary is currently working for the TNI’s New Politics project. Her work focuses on what happens to "People Power" or popular resistance in the face of corporate-driven globalisation. Co-author, with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Seagal of the classic feminist book, Beyond the Fragments (1979), Hilary’s most recent books include Reclaim the State. Adventures in Popular Democracy (2003) and Arguments for a New Left. Answering the Free Market Right (1993). A founding member of Charter 88, the movement to democratise Britain's feudal state, and convenor of the economic democracy workshop of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, Wainwright is also on the editorial board of the UK political think tank, Catalys.

Would you like to help run a small socialist charity?

The Lipman-Miliband Trust, a small London based socialist charity set up in 1974, invites volunteers to fill two vacancies on our committee and join 8 other long-standing members. We hope that in due course one of the volunteers might take over the post of secretary. In addition to its original foundation money designated for 'socialist education and research' in its widest sense, we have recently been entrusted with two additional bequests: The Irene Bruegel Fund to fund Socialist Feminist Projects and the Southern Africa Fund which covers SA and the Region.

Our Trust supports a wide range of activities within the spectrum of socialist and radical ideas and it is the secretary's job to help individuals and organisations draft applications to finance modest and realisable projects. Information about the type of work funded in the past is available on the website.

Volunteer Trustee

Volunteer trustees are expected to attend 3 meetings per year in London which take place in the evening from 7-11pm. The meetings are normally scheduled in January or February, in May or June, and in October.

Trustees participate in the full range of the Trust's activities which include finance and policy matters. Travelling expenses and overnight stay is covered for those who live outside London.

The secretary's role

The secretary provides the link between the committee and the public. The secretary is responsible for:

• drafting agendas for meeting and sending out papers to the trustees
• liaising with applicants to ensure that applications contain the information required by the committee
• taking minutes, informing applicants about the committee's decisions, sending out cheques
• liaising with members of the committee and the treasurer about issues that may have arisen at meetings
• overall responsibility for updating the Lipman-Miliband website and after each meeting supplying updated information to the webmaster
• keeping in touch with donors
• providing financial information to the Hon Treasurer required for accounts
• completing Annual Return for the Charity Commission
• estimated time commitment: from 3-5 hours per week and in the run up and after meetings from 5-8 hours per week for 3-4 weeks

If you would like to become a trustee do get in touch by writing to the address below or emailing us describing your interest in the work we do.