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The Council comprises up to fifty members, who are usually elected for a three year period, but are eligible to stand for re-election. As the body which formally elects the Board of Trustees, the Council is the ultimate ruling body of VSO. In practice, however, the Council will normally accept the recommendations of the Board of Trustees. The main formal function of the Council therefore is to act as a constitutional check on the Board of Trustees.

The Council also serves an important role in involving influential supporters of VSO who can be of great assistance to the organisation.

All Trustees are council members. In addition the following are council members:

Non BOT members

Jonathan Dimbleby	VSO Ambassador, Journalist, TV Presenter (President)
Mr Frank Almond	Consultant (former-trustee)
Dame Judy Dench DBE, CH	Actress
Dr David Bryer	former-Director, Oxfam
Mr David Essex OBE	Musician (former-Ambassador)
Sir David Green KCMG	Dir. Gen. British Council
Mr Geoffrey Barnett OBE	(former-trustee)
Mr Hugh Richardson	Eton College, Windsor
Mr James Boyle	Media
Mr John Fowler	Formerly The Prince’s Trust
Mr Jon Snow	Journalist
Mr Mike Gapes MP	MP, Ilford South, Labour Party
Mr Nick Selbie	retired Managing Partner, Actis
Mr Tony Cunningham MP	MP, Workington, Labour
Mrs Glenys Kinnock	Member of the European Parliament
Ms Brenda King	Chair - African & Caribbean Finance Forum
Ms Sarah Gilbert	HR Consultant
Professor Peter Mortimore	(former-trustee)
Professor Richard Feachem CBE	Executive Director, the Global Fund
Sir Tim Lankester	President Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Professor Bhupinder Sandhu	Consultant, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Bristol (former-trustee)
Mr Charles Sinclair	Group Chief Executive of Daily Mail and General Trust plc
Alderman John Stuttard	Lord Mayor Elect - City of London & Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Ms Justine Greening MP	MP Putney, Roehampton & Southfields