Meet the Board of Trustees
Fiona Jeffery OBE, Founder & Chair
Fiona founded Just a Drop in 1998 shortly after becoming a mum, and upon learning that a child died every 17 seconds (it’s now every 2 minutes) because of dirty water – and that just £1 could provide a child with clean water for ten years. At the time, Fiona was Chairman of the travel industry’s global event World Travel Market (WTM), and by setting up Just a Drop hoped to encourage travel and tourism businesses to give back to the communities they operated in across the world. Fiona also established World Responsible Tourism Day at WTM, now the largest responsible tourism gathering across the world. Fiona has been there every step of the way throughout Just a Drop’s growth and development over the past 20 years, and continues to volunteer her time for us and play an active role. Fiona, a graduate from Edinburgh University, sat on the UN World Committee for Tourism Ethics, loves being a mum, enjoys travelling and sport; and in 2012 was awarded an OBE for her services to the travel & tourism industry.
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Chris Mottershead
Chris has worked in travel for over 30 years, starting as Group Finance Director at Aspro Travel Ltd in 1990, before becoming Managing Director of TUI UK, Chief Executive of Travelzest plc and Chief Executive of First Choice Canada. Chris joined Thomas Cook in April 2015 and became Managing Director for Thomas Cook Group’s UK & Ireland business in September of that year and was later appointed Chief of Product & Operations, Thomas Cook Group plc. In late 2019 Chris joined Travel Leaders Group (UK) Ltd to lead the expansion of its subsidiary, Barrhead Travel. Chris is a qualified accountant and currently President of the Institute of Travel and Tourism and Chairman of the Thomas Cook Children’s Charity.
Claire Cooper
Claire has joined the board to strengthen it with her Human Resource (HR) and wellbeing knowledge. Claire has grown and sold her own HR consultancies as well as supporting Boards of SME’s within the UK, Europe and America markets, for the past 20 years. In 2006 Claire was appointed Chair of the Young Directors at the Institute of Directors. Her main task was to define the need of the Institute to the emerging leaders and to establish a structure for the delivery of director education and learning around the UK. In 2010, Claire launched CCHR. Claire and her team continue to provide SME’s with a holistic HR and Wellbeing support service.
Debbie Flynn
Debbie Flynn is the founder and managing partner of Brighter Group, now a Finn Partners Company. Debbie founded Brighter Group in February 1995 after 10 years at British Airways in a variety of roles which included operations, marketing and PR. Brighter Group is one of the leading travel and hospitality communications agencies in the UK with expert teams in PR, Digital and Destination Marketing. Debbie was awarded by the Guild of Travel and Tourism for her services to travel, was named by AWTE as one of the top 60 female travel executives, and for the second year in a row was named in the PR Week Powerbook as one of the top 10 travel PR influencers in the UK.
Frank Greaves
Following four years working for UK Water Authorities in the 1980s, Frank Greaves joined the Christian relief and development organisation Tearfund. He retired in 2024 after 33 years work with Tearfund, where, since 2006, he served as WASH Lead, with a universal remit for maintaining effective and sustainable WASH programmes through Tearfund’s partners and operational teams in both humanitarian and development contexts. He has worked in over 60 countries, including residential assignments over nine years in Honduras, Tanzania and Turkmenistan. Amongst Frank’s particular interests in WASH are Water Safety Planning, WASH in fragile contexts, and the role of faith-based groups in WASH. Frank and his wife are based in Middlesex, and when not at home, are likely to be found on their canal narrowboat, complementing Frank’s role as a Waterways Chaplain.
Goetz Eggelhoefer
Goetz recently relocated to Jersey from Singapore, where he lived and worked for 22 years. He is the Founder and CEO of Wolf Investments Ltd., a small family office that seeks to generate medium- and long-term returns from investments in liquid asset markets. Throughout his career, Goetz has been involved in several philanthropic pursuits focused principally on those countries throughout Asia in which he was also involved commercially. Goetz was a founding donor of Parivaar, a non-denominational charitable organisation that houses and educates destitute street children. He is currently the Chairman of Jersey Hospice Care, a position that he has held since 2021.
John Turner, Treasurer and Company Secretary
After training as a Chartered Accountant, John held various roles in financial management before moving into investment banking, where he spent over 20 years with Société Générale. He is now an independent consultant and non-executive director or trustee of (among others) Golden Lane Housing, Certitude London and the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine.
Nick Forster
A Chartered Accountant by training, Nick spent 30 years with Reed Exhibitions, and since 1995 was the Worldwide Commercial Director until his retirement in 2013. He has known Just a Drop since its inception when it was started in Reed Exhibitions and he continues to act as a link with Reed for Just a Drop. Since retirement he has consulted in the exhibition industry for amongst others Reed Exhibitions, Artexis Easyfairs (Belgium) and the Affordable Arts Fairs. He is also a trustee of Paxton House, a Grade 1 listed house in the Scottish Borders.
Peter Watson, Legal
Peter is Managing Director at Hentons Chartered Accountants, a Leeds Headquartered National Accountancy Practice firm serving private clients and businesses. Prior to that Peter was Managing Partner of Simpson Millar, a leading National Consumer Law Firm. He is a dual qualified Solicitor having previously practiced in Queensland Australia as well as England and Wales. In addition to position as a Trustee at Just a Drop, Peter has also supported and participated in Humanitarian Aid Convoys to Eastern Europe for many years. His motivation for working with Just a Drop is its unique focus on actually seeing through the delivery of projects and the emphasis on sustainability and community engagement.