British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy

Melanie de Grooth - BANT Administrator/General Manager
BSc (Hons) NT, mBANT, NTCC and CNHC Registered

• Graduated from the University of Westminster in 2001
• Practises Remedial Massage in a private practice
• Runs her own company offering Administration, IT support and Design

  BANT responsibilities

• Employed by BANT as the Administrator/General Manager on a full time basis
• Responsible for all managerial aspects of running BANT
• Managing and ensuring that the Head of Communications and all other committees are running smoothly and meeting targets
• All administrative tasks including the maintenance of the membership database, website and renewals
• Project manages all website and system developments and improvements
• Webmaster, responsible for maintaining and updating the BANT website
• Generating financial for the year end accounts, quarterly budgets, monthly accounts and allocation/analysis of income and expenses
• Responsible for introducing new systems for the efficient and cost effective running of the company
• Co-ordinates projects and is a member of several working groups and teams
  

Jonathan Cohen - Honorary Treasurer
MSc, MBANT, CNHC Registered

• Jonathan has a varied background as an entrepreneur, accountant, financial trouble-shooter and consultant
• Has over 25 years of active therapy experience, worked in bringing awareness of NLP to the UK in the 1980's
• He qualified for his MSc at the University of Worcester as part of the first cohort in 2006
• Has established teaching experience through the MSc programme at University of Worcester, and has taught at a number of other establishments
• Currently involved with Nutritional Therapy clinics in the UK and the Middle East

BANT responsibilities

• Honorary Treasurer, responsible for the company accounts, finances and budgets
  

Daniel O'Shaughnessy - Council Support Executive and Company Secretary
Dip ION, FdSc, mBANT and CNHC Registered

• Trained as a Nutritional Therapist at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION) 2012
• Previous career in Substance Misuse and Addiction working for 8 years in a clinic setting and for government projects
• Runs own Nutritional Therapy Consultancy
• Delivers training courses in Addiction & Nutrition
• Co-founder of a luxury international retreat company
• Gained his first BSc (Hons) in Criminal Justice with Law/font
• Passionate about raising the profile of Nutritional Therapy

BANT responsibilities

Council Support Executive

• Provide support for BANT Council Meetings
• Preparing the agenda and collating the paperwork
• Producing minutes and updating action items and key decisions

Company Sectretary

• Company mems and arts and legal issues as well as Company framework and Companies House contact
• Ensuring that the annual return and annual accounts are submitted in accordance with legislative requirements
• Ensuring that an Annual General Meeting is held as per the Articles of Association
• Ensuring that directors are appointed according to Articles of Association
• Ensuring that the company acts in accordance with the objects stated in its Memorandum of Association

Helen Barklam - Head of Communications
Dip. CNM, MBANT

• Qualified as a Nutritional Therapist in September 2010 from the College of Naturopathic Medicine
• Helen has more than 18 years of experience as a PR, marketing and communications specialist across the public and private sectors. This has involved working across a wide range of major brands and organisations at every level, including the Department of Health, NHS North West, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Johnson & Johnson, Roche Pharmaceuticals and the Life Lounge nutrition clinics.
• Helen's experience includes managing national marketing communications campaigns, developing and implementing communications strategies, managing crisis communications scenarios and designing and delivering stakeholder engagement plans - working with a range of stakeholders from Government ministers to charity volunteers.
• Helen practices as a Nutritional Therapist in her health and sports nutrition clinics in Lancashire, with a particular interest in Sports Nutrition.
• She is one of just a handful of people in the UK offering hydration testing for the 'athlete on the street'.

BANT responsibilities

• Contracts for BANT on a part-time basis
• Internal PR
• External PR
• Marketing
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Social Media
• Crisis communications
• Communications Steering Group Member