Our Executive Leadership Team

Guy Foxell (CEO)

What is your background?

I’ve worked for One YMCA since Valentine’s Day 2011 and previously worked at The Salmon Youth Centre.

What are your main day to day responsibilities?

Acting as the link between the Strategic Vision of the Trustee Board and the brilliant operational successes delivered by our Senior Leadership Team

What is your ambition?

To do more and better together, so that we double our impact for 2025

What are your personal interests?

Fun with the FoxCubs, the great outdoors (especially on a bicycle), community and church

Michael Howe (Deputy CEO)

What is your background?

I’ve worked for One YMCA since January 2020. Prior to this I was the CEO of a small local Charity which merged with One YMCA in 2020.

What are your main day to day responsibilities?

Overseeing all day to day operations of the Charity which includes both central support and frontline services.

What is your ambition?

My ambition is play an active role in how One YMCA will continue to develop. To unlock the success of making a lasting impact on our beneficiaries needs a central support service which meets the needs of our staff and volunteers – something which I am highly committed to achieving.

What are your personal interests?

In my spare time, as well as a keen listener of music, I play a number of different instruments including piano and saxophone.

Rob Clark (Chief Finance Officer)

What is your background?

I joined One YMCA on 1st February having just left the world of start-ups. I am an accountant with plenty of financial, operational and commercial experience.

What are your main day to day responsibilities?

Looking after the Finance Team, supporting the other areas of the business and all aspects of the Charities finances.

What is your ambition?

To provide an unbelievable service to the other areas of the business so they don’t have to worry about the finances, allowing them to do what they are good at.