Papworth Trust's Board has collective responsibility for the financial health and wellbeing of the organisation, holding the charity in trust for present and future beneficiaries, and making sure that it remains true to its charitable objects.

Brian Stewart OBE, Chair

Brian is now a portfolio non executive director, consultant and trustee, following an executive career in local and regional government to 2010. He was the Chief Executive of two Scottish unitary local authorities, and the Chief Executive of the former East of England Regional Assembly. He was part of the NED team which secured Foundation Trust status for the West Suffolk Hospital in 2012 and also chaired the Board of the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds. More recently he was a main Board member of Clarion Housing Group, and Vice Chair of its stockholding subsidiary. He also was Vice Chair of Ormiston Families, a regional children and families charity operating across East Anglia. His current portfolio includes chairing the Anglian (Great Ouse) Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, chairing the Sizewell C Community Forum, and Panel Member work for HS2 on discretionary compensation schemes. He lives near Bury St Edmunds.

 

Mike Anderson, Treasurer

Mike is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Mike is now retired after spending over 34 years in the financial services sector, 26 years of which were with the HSBC Group working in their Luxembourg, Amsterdam, New York and London offices. He held senior Finance and Treasury leadership positions with HSBC, including Deputy Chief Financial Officer for Global Private Banking, Group Head of Asset & Liability Management, and Chief Financial Officer for the Global Banking division. He also served as Secretary to the HSBC Group Risk Committee. Mike became a Trustee in 2020, and is also a non-executive director of Outward Housing.

 

Vanessa Stanislas

Vanessa has worked in the third sector since 1998, following a long and varied career at the Department for Work and Pensions. She was the Director of External Services at Disability Alliance before becoming its CEO in 2006. She worked as the Director of HR and Operations of the music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins and as Director of Quality at Scope, where she was responsible for the quality and regulatory compliance of 100+ registered care homes. Vanessa is currently the Director of Safeguarding and Incident Management for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. She is passionate about equity, equality (particularly disability equality) and is a practising antiracist and diversity champion. Vanessa became a Trustee in 2017.


 

Andrew Williams

Andrew spent over 40 years working in Social Housing, retiring in 2018. His early career began in housing management in Central London, graduating to Director of Housing with Southern Housing Group.
In 2004 he moved to Peterborough to become Managing Director of Nene Housing Society. He orchestrated Nene joining the Accent Group and initiating a development programme delivering 1200 new homes over 7 years. Following full consolidation of Nene into Accent Group in 2010, Andrew took on national roles for Accent as Executive Director of Customer Services for its 20,000 homes and for the last two years led on Strategic Projects including responsibility for development and ICT.
Andrew became a Trustee in 2020.

 

Jane Carmichael

A dual US/UK citizen, Jane started out as a financial journalist with Forbes Magazine in New York, then studied for an MBA and became a business strategy consultant based first in New York and subsequently in London. During her 17 years in consulting, Jane was a partner or director in three major international firms and advised the Boards of large companies across many industry sectors, ultimately focusing mainly on retailing. From 2002 to 2008 she retrained as a solicitor and spent the final phase of her career as an in-house legal adviser to HMRC, the Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority. Jane retired from paid employment in 2018 and became a Trustee in 2020.

 

 Amy Carter

 
Amy is a Senior Associate in the Charities and Philanthropy Team at Withers LLP. As a charity solicitor, she advises on a range of legal issues affecting charities and those working with, and giving to,  charities. She regularly speaks on topics relating to charity governance and regulation and is an active member of the Charity Law Association. 
Amy has previously been a trustee of the Nightline Association, a student mental health charity, and CHUMS Charity which funds mental health support for children and families in Luton, Bedfordshire  and Cambridgeshire. Amy became a trustee in 2022. 




 

 Grazina Berry

Grazina Berry is a charity leader, passionate about tackling social and health inequalities, and improving the quality of life for vulnerable people and communities. She’s led grassroots charities, most  recently as CEO of Overcoming MS, the world’s leading multiple sclerosis healthy lifestyle charity, and prior to that, a rare disease focused organisation, the Aplastic Anaemia Trust, where she helped  expand reach to include families with children and young people affected by a life threatening rare condition, and built productive partnerships with clinical and research teams at Great Ormond Street  Hospital and King’s College, London.
As Group Director of Performance, Quality and Innovation at the Richmond Fellowship, part of Recovery Focus Group, Grazina led the development and implementation of the ‘Working Together’  Strategy to empower people with lived experience of mental ill health to help improve existing and create new services. 
Grazina cares deeply about inclusion, empowerment and collaborative action, and is delighted to have joined the Papworth Trust Board, where she is looking forward to making a meaningful  contribution as Trustee. 
 


   

  

Penny Metcalfe

Penny has worked in the housing sector for 20 years.She brings experience of building homes, regeneration, specialist housing and partnership working. Penny is committed to organisations with a clear purpose and strong values, like Papworth Trust. As an executive director responsible for good growth, Penny believes success depends on hearing and acting on the voices of customers and stakeholders.

 

Jack Hardiman

Jack is a CFA charterholder and an Associate Investment Director at Cambridge Associates where he is responsible for constructing portfolios for a range of Pension, Endowment and Foundation and Private Family clients. Jack started his career at the Wellcome Trust, a charitable foundation focused on health research, working across various roles in Investments, Finance, Insight and Analysis and Public Affairs. He has been a Co-opted Governor at Edith Neville Primary School since 2020, where he acts as Chair of the Resources Committee, and was previously a founding committee member at Warwick Youth PHAB, a youth club to support and build a community for children with and without disabilities. He became a Trustee in 2023.








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