Founded 1980
Chair:        
Secretary: 
Treasurer: 

Graham Smith
Jan Thompson
Graham Mumby-Croft


Committee Members

An elected body drawn from RPGA members are responsible to the Association members for the day to day running of the RPGA.
Members are elected at the AGM and serve a four year term of office, but may be re-elected to serve further terms of office at the end of their four year term.

The current committee members are:
Paul Laxton
Born 1952 in Darwen, Lancashire. Son of a train driver and educated at St Mary's College, Blackburn, then a Catholic Grammar School for boys. Graduate of Keele University, Upper Second Class Honours in History and Education. High School teacher until 1984 when joined the Prison Service as a prison officer. Served at Stafford, (joining establishment), Werrington House, Bedford, Wakefield, Woodhill, PSC Newbold Revel, Dover (Deputy Governor), Ford (Deputy Governor), Surrey and Sussex Area Office, Coldingley (temporary Governor), Lewes (Deputy Governor), and finally Population Management Unit in Headquarters. A committed trade unionist serving as PGA representative at Woodhill, PSC Newbold Revel and Dover. Chaired Annual Conference in 2006 and 2007, then joined the NEC and became editor of "The Key," the association's in-house magazine. 
Awarded Distinguished Life Membership of the Prison Governors Association on retirement in October 2010.rried with one grown up daughter. Moved to Huddersfield after leaving the service. Continued to serve the PGA in retirement as Chair of Standing Orders 2011-13, and as Annual Conference Chair 2014-15. Since retiring has written three books including his prison service memoirs, "26 Years Behind Bars: The Recollections of a Prison Governor" which has been withdrawn from sale pending updating by the author and editing by new publishers. Expected to be back on sale in Spring 2019. Member of RPGA Committee and editor of the RPGA Newsletter. Chair of the West Yorkshire Branch of the Civil Service Pensioners Alliance. Member of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and former chair and membership secretary of the Huddersfield and District Branch. Paul's other interests include reading, horse racing, Lancashire County Cricket Club where he is a member, and following the fortunes of his beloved Blackburn Rovers.


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