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.
In my
spare time, I enjoy sled dog rallies as a helper and
spectator (Alan, Ross and I owned Siberian Huskies from1990
until 2008) and fund raise for the Siberian Husky Club of
Great Britain Welfare Scheme (for rescue and rehoming). I am
also a member of Mensa, National Trust, and Cadw,(Heritage
in Wales). My other main hobby is genealogy and Family
History and I belong to the Dorset, Berkshire and Sussex
Family History Societies as well as the John and Frances
West Family group.