Tim Kidd

Tim Kidd OBE was the UK Chief Commissioner for The Scout Association. As the Chief Commissioner he was the top administrative volunteer of The Scout Association. The UK Chief Commissioner acts as the association's Deputy Chief Scout and appoints a team of chief commissioners and UK Commissioners who are responsible for programmes in their respective fields.

Tim Kidd works in information technology as Executive Director at Jisc, a not-for-profit organisation aiming to make the UK the more digitally advanced in higher and further education, as well as research. He brings together Jisc’s people, organisations, strategies, services, and operations to ensure their digital IT capabilities are used cost-effectively and appropriately. As of October 2017 he had been with Jisc for 20 years. In October 2017, he reached 20 years with Jisc. He says what keeps him there is simple: knowing their work truly benefits students, universities, colleges, research centres, and the UK economy, and that without Jisc’s efforts to maintain and improve the national research and education network, much university research would be impossible or far more expensive. .¹

Kidd's first involvement in Scouting was as a Cub. He served in numerous leadership roles including Scout Leader, Assistant County Commissioner (Scouts), District Commissioner and County Commissioner. Prior to his current position Kidd was UK Commissioner for Adult Support for four years.¹ Kidd replaced Wayne Bulpitt to become the UK Chief Commissioner in August 2016,² serving until the appointment of Carl Hankinson in September 2021.³

Kidd was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to young people through the Scout Movement.⁴