The Committee

Colin Denny
Chair – Midland Clawback Group
Responsibilities: Delegation!!! & mainly communicating with various people at Horizons, HSBC etc. Plus masterminding requisitioning a shareholders Special Resolution for HSBC’s AGM in 2019 & 2020
Background: Joined Midland Bank in1976 in Suffolk, spent 39 years in branch lending before moving into Business Lending as my career progressed.

Steve Bradbury
Vice Chair – Midland Clawback Group
Responsibilities: for APPG co-ordination, some of the technology bits and pieces, and data analysis of pensions figures. Plus supporting all committee initiatives, and general promotion of Clawback awareness.
Background: Joined 1975 in Manchester, and spent the first 6 years in branch network before moving across into Operations, including RHO, Area Operations and DSC2. The last 15 years have been as Head Office project and programme management.

Sharon McGeough-Adams
Media & Communications
Responsibilities: Respond to any Press & Media enquiries and raise awareness of the campaign across all media platforms.
Background: Joined 1976 and completed 37 years service in various roles

Neil Ballantyne
Media & Communications
Responsibilities: Raising clawback awareness and assisting any and all committee initiatives
Background: Joined Midland Bank in 1979 in York and worked for 33 years initially in branches and then business/relationship management roles. Redundancy/early retirement in 2012.

Nancy Ball
Committee member
Responsibilities: EHRC and Legal aspects and helps provide general committee work
Background: I enjoyed a variety of clerical roles in the branch network in various locations. I joined Change Management Services as part of the road team, working right across the country, offshore and N.Ireland, managing change. This experience led me to Retail Coach and then Lead Retail Coach in the South Midlands.
I went back into the branch network working as Sales and Service Manager in the Oxford Area. I also held the role of Union Rep in the Plymouth Area

Shirley Eidman
Facebook and media Administrator Responsibilities: Approving membership of group and media quality checks
Background: 16 years in a secretarial capacity- I finally took early retirement in 1997 – I reached Grade 5 clerical and was also a lending officer and cashier in that time.
Reasons for joining campaign: I started investigating Clawback when it was applied to my pension in 2007 and after no one was able to explain it to me. I continued research and was contacted by Sharon through the ex employees web page.

Sara Golby
Case Study Co-ordinator/Committee assistant
Responsibilities: To collate information relating to our most adversely affected pensioners/ to assist the main committee members with general campaigning matters
Background: I left Midland Bank in 1995 after 11 years of service in both branch banking and training roles across the Midlands Region.