Sir Robert Balchin, MEd DLitt DL is the chairman of the Trustees of ARNI. He is a distinguished educationalist who led the movement for school autonomy in Great Britain. He was for six years-in the 1980s-Director-General of St John Ambulance. He is the Chairman also of the League of Mercy (a charity to encourage voluntary work in the field of caring for the sick and disabled).

He is the Pro-Chancellor of Brunel University and in 2006 his appointment as Knight Principal (Chairman of the Knights' Council) was approved by Her Majesty the Queen.

Colonel Alan Roberts, OBE, TD, JP, DL, MPHIL, PhD, LLD, DSc, is Treasurer of the ARNI Trust. He is a distinguished medical scientist, and most notably invented Indermil Tissue Adhesive. Trained in hospitals in Newcastle and Leeds, he is a leading authority in the field of biomedical engineering, and has received the Prince Philip Medal for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Technology for his advances in implantation materials in the human body. He is Professor of Biomaterials in Surgery at the University of Hull and consultant clinical scientist at St Luke’s Hospital in Bradford. He was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Leeds for fourteen years until his retirement in 2004. He now runs the Royal Society of Medicine's newest Section: 'Technology in Medicine'.

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

Nigel Branson, JP, is a Trustee of the ARNI Trust. He has had a distinguished career in the City in the insurance industry, and in 2002-3 was Sheriff of the City of London. He currently is Master of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. He is a Trustee of the League of Mercy.

Dr Tom Balchin, MEd, PhD, is the founder, Secretary and Chief Instructor of the ARNI Trust. He has worked at Goldsmiths College, Brunel and Reading Universities specialising in creativity theory and gifted education. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Middlesex University, specialising in stroke rehabilitation.

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Liz Fowler

Liz Fowler is Senior Instructor at the Arni Trust. She is a specialist fitness instructor, and is a member of both the REPS Council and Exercise Referral Forum. As Fitness Manager with Nuffield Health, she works mainly in the area of GP Referrals and with Special Populations.

contact no: 07870 458797

Nick Tsavalos

Nick Tsavalos is Senior Instructor at the Arni Trust. He is a specialist fitness instructor, PE school teacher and runs Moo Sool Martial Arts Academy.

contact no: 07710 407021

Dee Balchin

Dee Balchin is the Programme Co-ordinator of the Arni Trust.

For all general enquiries relating to the Trust, please contact Dee at ARNI Central right now!

May 2010: There are expert ARNI trainers all over the UK at your disposal, and we are concentrating on training Instructors in their areas in collaboration with the Exercise and Fitness After Stroke Course run by Later Life Training (formulated at Queen Margaret's University, Edinburgh).