Lindsey Dedden B.Sc(Hons) DIS MCIPD

Born Edgware, Middlesex, educated Harrow County Grammar School for Girls and Loughborough University of Technology ( Honours degree in Industrial Chemistry and Management Studies, with Diploma in Industrial Studies). Met husband ,Alan Dedden C Eng. B.Sc. MIEE, MIEEE ,while at Loughborough and married 1974.One son, Ross born 1984.

 I have worked in Personnel Management in the public sector and private sector in the UK and in the private sector in Seattle, USA. I studied for IPM (Now IPD) qualifications and am now a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD).

Since moving to Verwood in 1985, I have been active in the community in many ways. I served on the committee which produced “Viewpoint” when this was a community magazine, chaired the committee running the St Michael’s Mother and Baby group, and produced the Parish Magazine. I was elected to the Town Council in February 1990 and have chaired the Cemetery, Highways and Transportation and Finance and General Purposes Committees. I represented the Council on East Dorset Citizens’ Advice Bureaux Board from 1990 until 2004. I have also represented the Council on the Verwood Youth Centre Management Committee (currently serving as Vice- Chairman), Dorset Association of Parish and Town Councils(DAPTC) Eastern Area Committee and Larger Councils’ Committee and Verwood Memorial Hall Management Committee. I was elected Chairman of DAPTC in 2008.

From 1995 to 1999, I was one of Verwood and Three Legged Cross Ward’s three District Councillors and during this period served as Vice Chairman of the Environment Committee.

In 1997 I was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust. I was re-appointed in 2001 and to the new Board when the Trust became the first Foundation Trust in Dorset and Somerset in April 2005 and served until 2009.

In 1996, I was one of 6 people who formed the Forum for Three Legged Cross. I have served as Secretary of the Forum since its inception. As a result of the work of the Forum, I became Chairman of the committee which produces the “Three Cross Herald”. I was also Secretary to the committee organising the Village Appraisal project in Three Legged Cross and from 1999 to 2002 was a regular volunteer at the Youth Club in Three Legged Cross.