Board and Staff
Meet The Team
GET TO KNOW YOUR COUNTY FA
Here at Surrey FA, we have a dedicated team serving grassroots football; so whether you need help with your affiliation, have a query about club finance, or just want to find out more about how our Football Development initiatives could benefit your club - we're here to help.
Contact Details
For enquiries around refereeing - Referees@SurreyFA.com
For marketing enquiries - Marketing@SurreyFA.com
For enquiries about Meadowbank Football Ground - Meadowbank@SurreyFA.com
For discipline enquiries - Discipline@SurreyFA.com
For Football Development enquiries - development@SurreyFA.com
For FA Whole Game System and club affiliation enquiries - Affiliation@SurreyFA.com
For enquiries about courses - Education@SurreyFA.com
For enquiries about player registration on the Whole Game System - Playerregistrations@SurreyFA.com
Meet our board of trustees
Alex Warner - Chair
Alex’s experience comes from the transport, logistics, and leisure sectors, where he has held Chair, Managing Director, and other board-level posts at Royal Mail, South Eastern Trains, Londonlines, National Rail, First Bus, Midland Mainline, and Flash Forward Consulting in addition to senior roles at London Underground South Central Trains and British Airways.
He has a keen interest in grassroots football and can be found most midweek nights and weekends out watching local football being played at all levels, throughout Surrey.
Yvonne Rees - Senior Independent Director
Governance Sub-Group (Chair), Board Safeguarding Champion
Yvonne brings significant senior leadership experience to the Board. Yvonne is currently Chief Executive Officer of Oxfordshire County Council and Cherwell District Council. She is however a local girl who has worked at both Surrey County Council and Mole Valley District Council during her local government career.
Yvonne is a passionate advocate for the benefits that football and indeed all sport activity has on both the physical and mental well-being of our local communities.
Soye Briggs - Vice Chair
Interim-Chair (Inclusion Advisory Group); Governance Sub-Group
Soye is currently the Chief Operating Officer of a Youth Charity: The Winchester Project and is a Board member of Surrey FA, Kinetic Foundation and Kickstart Charity. He worked previously at Fulham FC Foundation to deliver training to football coaches working with challenging and hard to reach young people. He also supported the Club to achieve their ‘Intermediate Equality Standard. He then went on to become Head of Operations at Fulham before leaving to take up a role as a consultant with Brentford Community Sports Trust and then in 2013 moved to a role as Director of Community Development at Crystal Palace FC Foundation now known as Palace for Life Foundation. Soye was also Head of Equality at Crystal Palace FC for two years, leading the club to achieve the Premier League Intermediate Equality Standard.
His love affair with Surrey County FA began 7 years ago and became a county member in 2012. He has sat as Chair of the Race and Religion subgroup and more recently Vice Chair of the Equalities committee and have been involved with the implementation of the SCFA Strategy as it relates to targets around the Equality Action Plan. He also sits as a discipline commission panel member and was nominated by the County FA to complete the FA sponsored ‘On the board’ programme where he graduated in 2015 in areas of Corporate Governance and is now a Trustee at the County and the current Vice Chair and has been a Board Director for 5 years. Soye also currently chairs the governance subgroup of the Board to oversee the implementation of the new FA Governance Code for Sport.
Soye has held senior management positions for the past 18 years and has been responsible for the creation, implementation and review of organisational Values, Vision and Strategies.
Nick Drew - Finance Director
Finance Sub-Group (Chair); FA Council Representative (Chair, Finance Committee)
Nick has been the Finance Director on the Surrey FA Board since July 2014, overseeing all financial aspects of the Charity. In July 2019 Nick was also appointed onto the FA Council as the representative of the Surrey FA, where he serves on the National Game Finance Committee & the Affiliated Associations Committee.
In his day job, Nick is the Finance Director on the Executive Board at STATS Perform, a leading global, digital sports media business, having previously qualified as an ACA Chartered Accountant with Deloitte, following graduation from Loughborough University.
In his playing career, Nick played for various teams around the County including Sutton United, Epsom & Ewell, and Worcester Park, as well as spending time coaching in the US.
William Douglas - Independent Non-Executive Director
Finance Sub-Group; Partnerships Working Group (Chair)
William Douglas is currently the Chief Commercial Officer and member of the Executive Committee at Vistra, a global professional services company. He is responsible for the commercial management and development of Vistra’s business globally. Prior to this, William was at JLL, as Chief Marketing Officer, overseeing the global marketing function. In this role, he was responsible for commercial planning and branding, as well as sales and marketing transformation programmes. His commercial experience includes senior, global roles in the technology industry, with Samsung Electronics and Blackberry.
William is an active Level 4 referee and has been on the SFA Board since July 2019.
Lizzie Liebenhals - Independent Non-Executive Director
Lizzie's career started back in 1994 and spans sports, entertainment, events and global renown tournaments. Projects ranged from organizing the entire UK’s hospitality programme for Commonwealth Games in Canada to delivering to 22 FA Cups, 3 Champions Leagues and every Euros and World Cup since 1996 - not to mention bringing Kelly Rowland over to sing the National Anthem for England V USA in 2008.
She has worked commercially with 3 generations of England teams and all their sponsors as well as producing the opening ceremony of the new Wembley Stadium - FA Cup Final 2007.
Lizzie has managed over 300 sports stars and high-profile celebrities, brokering commercial deals, creating their brand plans and their entire PR campaigns.
Most recently she founded Halls and Halls which is a highly successful events, sports and PR company. In 2017 she was invited onto the Management Committee at the Surrey and in June the following year was honoured to become a board member.
Sally Lockyer - CEO (Ex-officio)
Governance Sub-Group; Inclusion Advisory Group, Partnerships Working Group
Emma Clarke - Youth Forum Chair (Ex-officio)
Vacant - Independent Non-Executive Director
Vacant - Independent Non-Executive Director
Vacant - Independent Non-Executive Director
Ray Lewis - President (Board Observer)
Referee Working Group (Chair); League Pathway Working Group (Chair)
Ray’s first involvement with Surrey FA was in 1962 when he passed his referees’ course at Kingston Society. He completed 50 years of active refereeing which included twenty four-years on the Football League list as well as the FIFA list of referees.
He joined the Surrey FA Council in 1993 and served as Referees Secretary, Vice-chairman, Chairman and is now our President.
Ray represented the County on the FA Council for seventeen years, serving on the National Game Board as well as Chairing the Referees’ Committee and Leagues’ Committee.
Most of his business career was spent in the hospitality industry before setting up his own company involved with sports clothing, corporate and school wear. He has been a Fellow of the Hotel and Catering Institute and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute.
Ray was made a Vice-President of the Isthmian League in 2019 as well as receiving the Non-League Paper’s ‘Life Time Achievers’ award.
STAFF CONTACTS
Chief Executive
Sally Lockyer
Chief Executive Officer
Operations
Andrew Dickinson
Head of Operations
Tel: 01372 384 745
Email: Andrew.Dickinson@SurreyFA.com
Anne-Marie Cliffe
Business Support Officer
Tel: 01372 384 190
Email: Anne-Marie.Cliffe@SurreyFA.com
Danielle Boyd
Business Support Assistant
Tel: 01372 387 095
Email: Danielle.Boyd@SurreyFA.com
Welfare
Phil Rendell
Designated Safeguarding Officer
Tel: 01372 387 090 | 07939 538 632
Email: Safeguarding@SurreyFA.com
Nicola Gould
Designated Safeguarding Assistant
Tel: 01372 384 746 | 07562 689 683
Email: Safeguarding@SurreyFA.com
Accounts
Nicola Novell
Head of Finance
Tel: 01372 387 091
Email: Nicola.Novell@SurreyFA.com
Football Development
For an easy to view breakdown of Football Development Officer by borough, download our handy map.
Emma Barnes
Head of Football Development (Facilities & Investment Lead)
Tel: 01372 384 744 | 07961 475 213
Email: Emma.Barnes@SurreyFA.com
Rob Bryant
Senior Football Development Officer (Male Lead)
Tel: 01372 384 194 | 07740 724 832
Email: Rob.Bryant@SurreyFA.com
Emma Eaton
Football Development Officer (Female Lead)
Tel: 01372 384747 | 07961 853747
Email: Emma.Eaton@SurreyFA.com
Dominic Belcher Football Development Officer (Clubs Lead)
Tel: 01372 384 195 | 07917392823
Email: Dominic.Belcher@SurreyFA.com
Eve Roberts
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Officer
Tel: 01372 384749 | 07976 121182
Email: Eve.Roberts@SurreyFA.com
Craig Hicks
Referee Development Officer
T: 01372 387 094 M: 07943 848 185
Email: Craig.Hicks@SurreyFA.com
Harry Yellen
Referee Development Assistant
Tel: 01372 384196
Email: Harry.Yellen@SurreyFA.com
Helen Ogle
Football Development Officer (Workforce)
Tel: 01372 387092 | 07535464186
Email: Helen.Ogle@SurreyFA.com
Ben Hughes
Facilities & Investment Officer
Tel: 01372 384191 | 07562 689684
Email: Ben.Hughes@SurreyFA.com
Ivan Newsome
Football Development & Management Intern
Email: Ivan.Newsome@SurreyFA.com
Nicholas Madronero
Football Development Apprentice
Email: Nicholas.Madronero@SurreyFA.com
Facilities
Jamie McGregor
Facilities Duty Manager
Tel: 01372 373 543
Email: Meadowbank@SurreyFA.com
Dominic Fairhurst
Facilities Duty Manager
Tel: 01372 373 543
Email: Meadowbank@SurreyFA.com
Marketing
Josh Symmonds
Head of Marketing & Partnerships
Email: Josh.Symmonds@SurreyFA.com
Emily France
Marketing Assistant
Email: Emily.France@SurreyFA.com
Nayan Limbu
Digital Marketing Intern
Email: Nayan.Limbu@SurreyFA.com
Football Services
David Miller
Head of Governance & Discipline
Tel: 01372 373 543 | 07739 982 353
Email: David.Miller@SurreyFA.com
Bob Dick
Competitions Officer
Tel: 01372 384 743
Email: Bob.Dick@SurreyFA.com
Zack Hilliard-Winyard
Case Officer
Tel: 01372 384 197 | 07980 902 379
Email: Zack.Hilliard-Winyard@SurreyFA.com
Richard Garland
Case Officer
Tel: 01372 384 748
Email: Richard.Garland@SurreyFA.com
