PHIL MCCROAKAM

Job Role away from the foundation
Programme Manager at HSBC

Describe your job for the foundation?
Primarily managing the finances and working with the team at the foundation to offer support and leadership where I can

What is the best part of your job?
Seeing the fantastic work resulting in change in the community that we are part of. The scope of the foundations work is always adapting as needs change and we look to offer activities beyond sport across all age groups

What did you want to be as a child?
A
footballer, but my talent ran out long before my passion for the game

Favourite Meal?
Usually the next one, but more precisely it would have to be Asian food from either Thailand or India

Favourite band and song?
The Stereophonics as a band but the song would be one of their influences – AC/DC Highway to Hell

Ambition for 2025?
For the foundation to keep growing and supporting the community as part of the Frickley family. More broadly to see honesty, compassion and compromise rise above vitriol and division within our society – there will always be more that unites us than that that divides.