Lewis-Manning Hospice Care has expanded their Board of Trustees to further strengthen the charity, whilst enabling them to develop a sustainable future to support the care of their patients and their families.
As part of a skills analysis of the existing Board of Trustees, Lewis-Manning Hospice Care identified that experience and skills were required in medical, clinical, business, property, IT and fundraising.
Clare Gallie, CEO Lewis-Manning Hospice Care, said: “As part of good board management practice, Chairman, Jeremy Allin and I looked at the skills that a charity of our size and purpose would ideally have. We then undertook a skills analysis of our current board and compared these in order to identify some specific opportunities for trustee recruitment for the charity.”
“We then spent time, as per our trustee board recruitment process, identifying key people who might be willing and have the right skills to help start us into the future. We already had a fantastic board, who have gone above and beyond during the recent changes we have undergone as a charity.”
The new board members brings Lewis-Manning Hospice Care’s trustee number to eleven.
The six new trustees are:
Alison Dean
Alison is currently Director of Operations for an investment management company. She also runs her own property management business looking after a number of sites locally and helps businesses set themselves up. Alison also does accounts for a number of businesses and teaches GCSE mathematics to children. She is an organised individual who has a wealth of practical and business experience and has a passion to do a good job and is looking forward to helping Lewis-Manning Hospice Care through a changing time.
Ann Lee
Ann is an experienced Clinical Director with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Performance Improvement, Nursing Education, Coaching, Palliative Care, and JCAHO. Strong healthcare services professional with a B.Ed (Hons) Sussex University MA Brighton focused in Health Care from John Colet School Wendover Buckinghamshire. Ann has worked at St Margaret’s Hospice for 25 years, with the last four being as the Chief Executive Officer.
Catharine Geddes
Catharine started her career as an Associate at Preston Redman LLP and stayed there for nine years, before moving to Lester Aldridge. Catharine was made a Partner at Lester Aldridge after almost three years, as part of their employment team. Catharine is a very experienced employment lawyer and HR advisor. As a business owner, team leader, manager and former Head of HR, Catharine brings hands-on experience. She is praised highly for her in-depth knowledge, as well as her timely and straight forward responses.
Chris Palmer
Chris started his career working in artwork studios, and his responsibilities included organising the studio workflow, checking artwork, typo graphics, layout, linage etc. for annual reports. This culminated in Chris being Head of Production for Design Group for three years. He joined AdMedia, as their Director of Operations where he managed the Operations Department, which encompassed Production, IT and Media Logistics, looking after a team of over 50 people. Chris is now the owner of the award winning business AnyTech Solutions, based in Poole. The company offers a variety of solutions to people’s computer problems.
Dr Linda Thompson BSc, PhD, MBBS, MRCGP
Linda initially trained as a psychologist and became involved in research, academia and education at all levels. She also specialised in the area of grief and bereavement, where she helped people come to terms with significant loss. This lead her to undertake a degree in medicine, and ultimately become a qualified GP with a special interest in palliative care.
Peter Brooks
Peter has had a varied career across a number of different food-based industries, most recently he was Vice President for Del Monte Foods. Peter has worked in senior sales and marketing positions, financial and production management, human resources, union negotiations, government legislation and public relations. In his spare time, Peter has been the 2009 President of the Poole Rotary Club of Poole, initiated the Rotary Business Partners Scheme in 2011, Trustee of About Face, Head & Neck Cancer Charity and is on the Management Committee & Trustee of Limelight Youth Club.