Tony Bell

Tony, who lives in Sale and is a qualified accountant, began his career in the private sector, largely with the Lex Retail Group.

More recently he has worked in organisations providing public services and with a social value, including as Director of Finance at City College Manchester. There he was responsible for finance, estates and commercial contracts, and much of his work was focused on prison education as the college was the country’s largest provider of prison education.

In recent years he has developed a portfolio career as a Non-Executive Director in the NHS and social housing, most notably on the Audit and Risk Committee on the Guinness Partnership, a national provider of social housing with 60,000 homes and a turnover of £300m, and Board member and Chair of the Audit Committee of its largest subsidiary (Guinness Northern Counties).

He is also a Board member and Chair of the Audit Committee at Wythenshawe Community Housing Group, and ForHousing in Salford.