Helen Grantham

Helen is a solicitor and spent her executive career in leadership roles in the private sector as General Counsel and Group Secretary of large, complex listed companies and latterly at the Co-op Group. Most of her career was spent in consumer-facing organisations going through periods of significant change and having executive responsibility for legal, compliance, governance, risk, audit and corporate affairs functions. 

Helen has a keen interest in education, healthcare and supporting local communities and her non-executive roles have focused in these areas. She is a Council member at the University of Leeds, where she chairs their remuneration committee and is a trustee of their pension scheme. She is also an Associate Non-Executive Director at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and chairs the Yorkshire and North-East Advisory Board at the Canal and River Trust, which provides green and blue spaces in communities across the region.

Register of Interests

In addition to providing the following declaration of private interests, the Council member has undertaken to abide by the Code of Conduct for Council members (pdf).

Relationship, either personal or professional (outside of HCPC business) with any HCPC registrant, Council or Committee member, employee, partner or supplier:

None

Summary of employment (current or in last 2 years) including remunerated and unremunerated (voluntary) work, permanent and temporary roles, self-employment, consultancy work, Non-Executive Directorships of public or private companies:

Current:

Lay Member of Council (University of Leeds), Trustee Director (University of Leeds Pension and Assurance Scheme, PAS Trustees Limited), Chair of the Yorkshire and North-East Advisory Board (Canal and River Trust), Associate Non-Executive Director (York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).

Previous: Interim Company Secretary (AngloGold Ashanti plc)

Details of membership or management of bodies that exercise functions of a public nature (including any public appointments)(current or in last two years):

Associate Non-Executive Director (York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

Details of membership or management of bodies directed to charitable purposes (current or in last two years):

Lay Member of Council (University of Leeds), Chair of the Yorkshire and North-East Advisory Board (Canal and River Trust)

Details of membership or management of bodies that aim to influence public opinion or policy (including any political party or trade union (current or in last two years):

None

Details of any shareholdings which give a majority or controlling interest in any undertaking:

None

Description of any contracts for goods, services or works made between the HCPC and the Council member, or an organisation from which the Council member or their partner/close family member receive remuneration:

None

Details of any significant political activity undertaken in the last five years. This includes activities that are a matter of public record i.e. office holding in, public speaking in support of, or candidate on behalf of, any political party (or affiliated body) which fields candidates at local or general elections in any part of the UK or in elections to the European Parliament:

None