Ross Stanton - Branch Chairman

Ross Stanton has a career in the Ambulance Service spanning 23 years and is a highly experienced and dedicated union representative. He takes the role of coordinating the work of the Branch. Ross can be contacted by clicking here.

Kevin Risley - Branch Secretary

Kevin is the elected Branch Secretary and oversees the operations of this UNISON branch. An experience union activist, Kevin's vast role within the branch is a full time one. He is supported by Barry Jarvis, Jackie Robinson and Frank Ward, together making a strong leadership unit for the EEAS-UNISON branch.

Barry Jarvis - Divisional Sec. (Norfolk & Suffolk)

Barry is an experienced and dedicated activist. Formally an official within the former East Anglia Ambulance Service Branch, Barry now takes on the expanded role of membership representation of Norfolk and Suffolk. Barry has a good but firm relationship with the Trust's senior management making him an ideal activist that members benefit from.

Jackie Robinson - Divisional Sec. (Beds & Cambs)

Jackie Robinson is the head of the former Beds & Herts Ambulance Service Branch. She has over 7 years of experience in taking a lead role with protecting and representing staff, fighting against unfair changes and negotiating with the Trust’s Directors over staff issues. She is known to the senior management for her relentless ability to achieve fair working conditions for her members.

Frank Ward - Divisional Sec. (Herts & Essex)

The regions of Herts and Essex are protected by full time representative Frank Ward. Frank is a highly experienced and dedicated union activist and has achieved enormous success in his former role of Essex Branch Secretary.

Steve Beckley - Branch Treasurer

Steve Beckley has the responsibility for the financial house keeping for the branch. His role includes insuring that members subscriptions are used within the branch wisely and all relevant records kept up-to-date.

Alan Chamberlain - Health & Safety Officer

The health, safety and welfare of the members is one of the key aims of UNISON. Alan Chamberlain takes on the role of coordinating this vast area of work. Members are asked to contact Alan with any serious health & safety concerns they may have about their workplace. Email achamberlain@eeas-unison.com.

Eric Miller - Communications Officer

The way in which the Branch communicates with its members is vastly important. Eric Miller is formerly the head of East Anglia Branch Communications and takes on the role of publishing the monthly EEAS-UNISON branch newsletter. Eric also takes the role of press liaison for the branch's work.

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Stuart Reeves - Membership / Young Members Officer

Ensuring equalities are fairly maintained throughout the Trust is the responsibility of Stuart Reeves. Previously the Vice Branch Secretary of the former Beds & Herts Branch, Stuart is ideally experienced for this role.

As the branches Membership Officer, Stuart has the responsibility of ensuring that member details are up-to-date. He also has the role of incorporating new members to the UNISON branch. It is vitally important that members who details such as addresses or place of work change inform complete a Change of Circumstances Form. This will enable us to ensure that you receive vital ballot papers on issues that we need members to vote on.

In addition, Stuart also takes on the role of Young Members Officer to ensure that the interests of this staff group are constantly protected. Stuart publishes a regular Blog on his activiites, click here to veiw it

Ross Stanton - PTS Officer / Equalities Officer

PTS staff are as aggressively represented as all the other staff groups. He takes the role of coordinating all action and negotiations on behalf of the PTS staff group. PTS staff should report concerns to Ross by emailing him at rstanton@eeas-unison.com.

Ian McKenna - Pensions Advice Officer

Pensions are one of the most important issues for staff of all generations. Specalist advice can now be obtained from Ian McKenna who joins the Committee to provide detailed advice to our members on their pensions arrangments. Ian maintains the Pensions Area for our website.

Dave Edwards - Disabled Members Officer

Disabled members in our branch are represented by Dave Edwards who is part of the branch committee and serves to advise the branch on work in this area.

June Felstead - LGBT Officer

June Felstead is based in Hertfordshire and serves as the Branch's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Officer to represent the interests of our members within these groups. June is happy to be contacted via e-mail to provide advice on any LGBT issue or advice on Sexual Orientation Regulations. All mail is treated in the strictest confidence.

Lesley Hilton - Women's Officer

Lesley Hilton has recently acheived a TUC Diploma in Employment Law which assists her in advicing female members. Her education also means she is experienced in flexible hours and paternity laws to protect male members of staff also.

Stuart Reeves - Hertfordshire Lead County Representative

Stuart is a dedicated activist and ensures that not only his Hertfordshire members, but the entire branch membership are updated with our work. Formerly of dispatch, Stuart is now an operational staff member and brings his experience to his work as a senior UNISON activist.

Stuart Edwards - Suffolk Lead County Representative

Stuart Edwards takes on the responsibility of representing members within Suffolk and Waveney regions of our Trust..

Jackie Robinson - Bedfordshire Lead County Representative

Along with her Divisional Secretary role, Jackie has the new role of overseeing all member issues within the Bedfordshire region along with being a key lead within the new branch. Jackie's experience with member representation and staff side leading are valuable assets to her members.

Carole Taylor - Norfolk Lead County Representative

Carole takes on the lead role for the large area of Norfolk. She is an experienced union representative and is committed to member issues within he region. Along with all of her branch committee colleagues, Carole has a major role in shaping the new branch.

John Davey - Essex Lead County Representative

The dynamic region of Essex is represented by John Davey who is an experienced staff side lead. John can be contacted by any Essex staff members wishing to raise concerns they feel UNISON should be aware of. Click on John's picture to email him.

Pete Davis - Cambridgeshire Lead County Representative

Pete Davis supports members in the Cambridgeshire region.

John Toomey - Regional Officer

John Toomey is full time employee of UNISON and bridges the gap between UNISON national and branch level. John's responsibilities extend to all the UNISON branches within the Eastern UK. As a seasoned UNISON activist, John's experience in guiding the branch committee members has been invaluable in areas such as the Agenda for Change negotiations and the BHAPS Payroll Action.

Gwen Williams - Team Administrator

Gwen is also an employee of UNISON and has the difficult challange of coordinating UNISON's actions throughtout the region. UNISON's partnership with other branches is key to our unsupparsed national strength. Gwen's role is to intergrate all of action collectively and deals with branch organisation and development

Dave Prentis - UNISON General Secretary

Dave Prentis was re-elected UNISON general secretary in March 2005, with an overwhelming 77% of the vote. Recently, The Guardian listed the 100 most influential people in public services. Dave was placed fourth. The Guardian wrote:

"Dave has led Britain's biggest union formidably. He is carefully critical of aspects of public services reform, while maintaining dialogue with ministers … He won a groundbreaking deal on employment rights for contracted-out local government workers and could engineer a similar deal for NHS staff."