Organisation

Trustees

• Iain Philpott
• Sophie Tarassenko
• Moya Wood Heath

Co-Chairs

• Iain Philpott
• Sophie Tarassenko

Executive Officers

• Executive Director: Pamela Dix
• Secretary/Director: Judy Cooper

A self-help organisation, Disaster Action's aims are to:

• Offer support to those directly affected by major trauma
• Raise awareness of the needs of survivors and the bereaved in the short- and longer-term aftermath
• Help create a safety climate in which disasters are less likely to occur.

Membership

Membership is open to all those with direct personal experience of disaster, as survivors, bereaved people or both. Current members have been affected by disasters in the UK and abroad and live in many different parts of the UK. Many of them remain involved in their own family/survivor support group (if one has been established), while, as part of Disaster Action, considering the general issues that may be relevant to any disaster whatever its origin.

Disaster Action Members

• Mumbai (terrorist attacks, 2008)
• Dahab bombing (terrorist attack, 2006)
• Sharm El Sheikh bombings (terrorist attack, 2005)
• London bombings (terrorist attack, 2005)
• Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia (terrorist attack 2004)
• Tsunami (South East Asian Tsunami, 2004)
• Ufton Nervet (rail crash, 2004)
• Bali bombings (terrorist attack, 2002)
• 11th September (terrorist attacks in the US, 2001)
• Ladbroke Grove (rail crash, 1999)
• Southall (rail crash, 1997)
• Dunblane (school shootings, 1996)
• Hillsborough (football stadium crush, 1989)
• Marchioness (riverboat sinking, 1989)
• UTA-772 - Niger, Africa (aircraft bombing, 1989)
• Piper Alpha (oil platform fire, 1988)
• Clapham (rail crash, 1988)
• Jupiter, Greece (cruise ship sinking, 1988)
• Lockerbie (aircraft bombing, 1988)
• Zeebrugge (sinking of Herald of Free Enterprise, 1987)
• Enniskillen bombing(terrorist attack, 1987)
• King's Cross (underground fire, 1987)
• MV Derbyshire Family Association (cargo vessel sinking, 1980)
• Aberfan (coal tip slide on school, 1966)