David Bowler, Chair

David has over 20 years experience of housing, community development and regeneration in the public and private sectors.

David established the Queens Park New Media Centre in the late 1990s in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, whilst employed by Westminster City Council as Head of Estate Regeneration.  Since 2003, David has been Programme Director of North Fulham NDC, one of the 39 New Deal for Communities (NDC) projects established by the Government in 2000 to improve health, educational attainment and employment, reduce crime and regenerate the physical environment in some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in England.  Working to a Partnership Board made up of representatives of the local community, councillors, public agencies, business and the voluntary sector, David is currently guiding his NDC through the process of establishing a successor body to continue regeneration work after the wind up of the Government's NDC grant funding programme in 2011.

David has been the Chair of Vital Regeneration since its establishment in 2005.