WRFC has been an important part of my fitness and social life since I joined in 2014. I’m a silver-league squash player, occasional gym user and regularly in the saddle at the Pedal Studio suite. After studying law, my career diverted to charity fundraising, mainly from high net wealth individuals. I am now Chief Executive of The Scar Free Foundation, a national charity funding medical research into burn scars, cleft lip and palate and traumatic wounds encountered in military and terrorist conflicts. I also lead the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, the world’s largest surgical member association for heart and lung surgeons. As well as fundraising, I hope I can bring my experience in charity and company governance, financial management and human resources to support the club and our members over the next few important years of development.
Brendan.Eley@wimbledonclub.co.uk
I have been a member of the Club for more than 50 years, mostly as a badminton player, although I also played squash for several years. I represented the Club’s teams in the Surrey County Badminton Association leagues for many years, as well as playing for the County, often taking on the role of team captain. I was elected to the Badminton Committee in 1981 (37 years in all), serving as Chairman for the last 14 years of my tenure. I was very involved in setting up the Club’s Disability Badminton sessions in 2011 – and continue to be very involved with these. I am a member of Surrey County BA Council, and several of the county’s committees – Masters, Patrons, and Strategy, Finance & General Purposes. My working life has been in hospital and medical practice management, largely in the private sector. The Club has been a very significant part of my life in terms of sporting participation as well as socially. I was elected to the Board in October 2020 at a challenging time for most businesses and wish to do all I can to help the Club to improve and move forward and secure its future.
Lyn McLean has been a committed member of the club since 1985. During that time she has played badminton at club, county and national level.
Lyn believes in the benefits of sport for mental and physical health and creating lifelong friendships. It’s been her pleasure to introduce friends and family to the club.
Lyn has had a long career in international travel, most recently working for United Airlines. She has travelled to more than 80 countries around the world. She understands the importance of the community and believes that this club provides a valuable place for people to feel seen and known.
Her governance experience includes more than a dozen years as a trustee of an international justice charity. She understands the role of board members as stewards of the vision, mission and value of the club whilst ensuring effective management and accountability on a day to day basis.
Lyn’s hope for the future of club is that membership will continue to grow with members coming from all backgrounds, walks of life and stages of life. She believes that the social aspect of club life has great value alongside access to high quality sports facilities and coaching
Some years back I received a life saving Organ Transplant, which I have been fortunate enough to be selected to represent Great Britain for Badminton in the World Transplant Games and WRFC have been the backbone of support through that journey. I wanted to give something back to the club as a way to say thank you, so what better way I thought, to give my time to promote it in TV interviews, press conferences and magazines. My background is Dentistry and now working with leading digital 3D Dentistry Techniques it’s given me firm creative skills, I am also a Member of The Magic Circle, helping to create and perform theatre shows and a member of many charitable organisations putting on events to raise money. With that in mind I use my creative skills in the marketing and funding sector for the club.