Jason Leonard OBE
Former England prop, appeared for England 114 times plus 5 times for the British and Irish Lions, and won the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He was President of the RFU in 2015 and hosted the Rugby World Cup in England.
As well as having a busy and successful corporate career, he is a prolific supporter of charities and has raised over £2M through his annual dinners for a number of rugby, youth and health charities. Jason founded Atlas and remains Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Lord Addington
Dominic Hubbard, 6th Baron Addington, is a British Peer who speaks in the House of Lords on Sport and Disability.
He was a founder member and remains Captain of the Commons and Lords Rugby Football Union Club, playing as prop for the Parliamentary team.
Fiona Stockley
Fiona is the General Manager of an NHS child mental health service for the East London Foundation Trust, which is CQC accredited as outstanding.
She has worked for over a decade in professional sport across men’s rugby and football; operationally managing stadia, events and retail. As well as training as a teacher in 1999 she also volunteered as a special police officer in the Metropolitan police.
“Stockers” was a rugby player for Wasps and England and since retiring in 2008 has volunteered at Wasps Ladies her club for nearly 20 years. She is the women’s coordinator at the “Barbarians RFC” supporting the committee to create the inaugural womens team in 2017.
Neil Blair
Neil joined the ATLAS Board in January 2018 and is Chairing the Atlas All Schools group. He is J.K. Rowling’s agent, Founding Partner of The Blair Partnership and Chairman of Pottermore. He is a keen rugby fan and Saracen’s supporter. Neil is involved in a number of charitable causes including acting as chair of British Friends of United Hatzalah and serving as a trustee of organisations including JW3 and the Donmar Warehouse.
Nick Bracken OBE DL
Former Metropolitan Police Commander with over 40 years of public service. He led major teams at home and abroad in many high-profile cases. He was awarded the OBE in 2006 for services to Policing.
In 2019 he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London and in 2021 was appointed as the Representative Deputy Lieutenant in the London Borough of Havering.
He is currently the Immediate Past President of the Essex RFU, President of East London RFC, Life Vice-President of British Police Rugby and the elected RFU Council member for Essex.
Damian Bradbury
Damian has enjoyed a 30-year career in Wealth Management and IFA sector. The past 18 years as a Director at SJP and currently running the London business with responsibility for c240,000 clients, c1100 Advisers and c£45Bn FUM. Previously serving for 10 years as Recruitment Director and building the SJP Academy that trains >500 wealth managers each year.
Damian is a key supporter of the SJP Charitable Foundation one of the UKs most successful workplace charities, which has raised and distributed over £100M. In addition, Damian has raised over £30,000 for Breast Cancer Charities through personal sponsorship.
Damian played grass roots Rugby and Cricket for Windsor and now participates fully from the stands at Twickenham and Lords. He enjoys time with friends and colleagues playing Golf off 7, on courses across the UK.
Ben Nicholson
Ben joined The Atas Foundation Board following the tragic loss of Anita, Alex and Annabel in the Colombo bombings on Easter Sunday 2019. Since then Ben has been fundraising for the Memorial Fund/Atlas Foundation and supporting existing and new projects across the Asia region with a volunteer committee led by Rosie Chong.
Ben’s fundraising typically involves taking on endurance running marathon and ultra-marathon events and long distance outrigger canoe challenges in which he is joined by an enthusiastic band of supporters.
While the word “limited” would be a generous description of Ben as a rugby player, Ben has been a committed coach and volunteer for boys and girls youth rugby in Singapore for over 13 years and also served as a member of the Singapore Rugby Union Women’s Rugby Development Committee. Through their work for the Atlas foundation and the Memorial Fund, Ben and Rosie Chong have pioneered a youth Mixed Ability Rugby programme in Singapore, bringing together mainstream schools with schools serving children with intellectual disabilities.