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Breidge Gadd

Breidge Gadd

Breidge has been involved in social and probation work during her full time professional career. She worked in a range of settings including urban and rural communities and in the prisons in Northern Ireland.

She taught in both UU and QUB on a part time basis and was Chief Probation Officer for the Northern Ireland Probation Board from 1986 until 2000. She was an advisor on criminal justice practice to the Council of Europe, a founding member of the European Conference on Probation and a visiting Professor at U.U until 2006.

Breidge was appointed as the Northern Ireland Board Member for the New Opportunities Fund in 2001 and she was appointed as Northern Ireland Board Member for Big Lottery in December 2006.

Breidge has a range of voluntary interests:

  • a former Trustee of Lloyd’s TSB Foundation
  • a former Board member of The Womens’ TEC
  • chairperson of Threshold, a mental health charity
  • a Governor of Hazelwood School
  • a member of the Bytes Board
  • a Trustee of the Edward de Bono Foundation.

She is currently Deputy Chair of the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission and is a weekly columnist on a local daily newspaper.