John Berry has given almost forty years of part-time volunteering effort primarily covering youth and education with over 20 years spent with the Scouts. As a management consultant, he has worked with large and small, national and local civil society organisations. He has seen the good and the bad of the sector. John is an alumnus of Loughborough University, the Open University Business School and Birkbeck, University of London, in technology, management and organisational psychology. He is a Chartered Manager and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. As a technology manager he was a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.