Board of Trustees
Sir Hugh Sykes
Chairman
Hugh Sykes has previously served as Chairman of National Australia Group Europe and Yorkshire Bank and a Consultant Member of the National Australia Bank Board in Melbourne. He was Chairman during the nine years’ life of Sheffield Development Corporation, responsible for the successful regeneration of Sheffield’s former industrial heartland, the Lower Don Valley. He also set up and chaired the Hallam Group, the first Council/Business Partnership in the 1990s which subsequently developed into the Sheffield First Partnership. In 2000 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of Sheffield One, one of the leading urban regeneration companies. He was Chairman of Renaissance South Yorkshire, a body charged with wide responsibility in the regeneration of South Yorkshire.
He is Chairman of The Industrial Trust, which brings together the world of work and schools. Until 2008 Sir Hugh was Chairman of Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust. He also served as Chairman of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust between 2005 and 2008 and was appointed after the Trust was placed in special measures by the Healthcare Commission in December 2004. During his time as Chairman the Trust was taken out of special measures, balanced its finances and started work on 2 new state of the art hospitals in Pontefract and Wakefield. His various other Directorships include the Institute of Directors and the British Urban Regeneration Association. Sir Hugh has wide ranging interests including youth, heritage, art, education, health and the environment.
Liz Bashforth
Trustee
A trained solicitor, Liz has worked in a variety of roles from litigation to corporate legal and from the front line to senior management, culminating in her role as Assistant Chief Executive Legal and Governance in Sheffield City Council (SCC). She has managed services with up to 250 staff and budgets to £8 million, covering the full range of legal and governance services, which have included legal and democratic services; member support; elections; business support; local ombudsman liaison; contract management and community safety. Liz has been the Proper Officer for a number of functions including the Register Office, the Returning Officer for elections and the Monitoring Officer.
Her role has involved working closely with senior officers both within the council and other agencies, councillors and M.P.s advising on often complex and sensitive issues.
In addition to leading her department and contributing as a member of the senior management team, Liz has been involved in key initiatives within the council. In particular, she has taken a leading role in developing multi-agency partnerships, especially in relation to community safety with the emergency services and other public, voluntary and community bodies. This has also involved working closely with the government on a number of projects.
Liz has maintained her professional development through continued personal development and participated in SCC Leadership Development Programme. She was a lay member of the Employment Tribunal for 10 years until 2005. She has been active in a voluntary capacity as a Governor at a local junior school and is looking forward to the challenge that being a Trustee on the Board at SheffCare represents.
Duncan Bell
Trustee
A recent addition to the Board, Duncan has over 12 years business management, marketing and management experience within a range of charitable, financial services and fmcg (fast moving consumer goods) organisations.
Duncan has an in depth understanding of legacy fundraising and broad marketing expertise. Before moving to Sheffield he was Head of Legacy Marketing for Cancer Research UK, managing a large team and budget. Previously Duncan has been Marketing Development Manager for GE Capital, a division of General Electric, at one time the world’s largest company.
Duncan has been responsible for driving innovation and growth in a range of marketing and business development roles working for a number of organisations in the financial sector; more specifically the credit card business.
A graduate of Leeds University in French and Management he now incorporates is love of mountaineering, climbing and travel with his current role as sole Director of Hot Rocks Expeditions, a global travel and rock climbing tour operator.
Steve Essam
Trustee
Steve is currently Group Human Resources Director for the successful international healthcare business Tunstall, based in Yorkshire and Chair of their pension scheme trustee board. Tunstall provides a variety of support solutions for elderly and vulnerable people, which helps increase their quality of life whilst offering reassurance to both the elderly clients and their families. He has been with the company for more than 10 years and has over 23 years HR experience (16 years at a senior level) in a variety of public and private sector organisations. Steve has lived in Sheffield for nearly 30 years and was delighted to be asked to join the Board of Trustees in 2008. He has direct experience of care for the elderly and the care challenges they can face as life expectancy continually increases.
For a number of years he worked with his family in supporting his own parents when one developed Alzheimer’s and the other Parkinson’s disease. As a consequence his mother spent some time in a residential / nursing home. He passionately believes that appropriate high quality care and support should be available to all senior members of society if they require it.
Richard Frost
Trustee
Richard Frost is managing partner of Hawsons, Chartered Accountants, based in Sheffield. He joined the board of Sheffcare in 2005 having previously spent 10 years on the board of Sheffield City Trust . Before branching out on its own Sheffcare had been a subsidiary of City Trust. Richard is a past president of both the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Sheffield and District Society of Chartered Accountants and continues as Honorary Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce.
Adele Jagger
Trustee
Adele joined the Board of Trustees in 2005 and as a new member is enjoying learning how SheffCare works. She is particularly interested in the care provided for elderly people believing that their comfort, dignity and happiness are paramount. She was born in Sheffield and has lived and worked here all her life. Work was teaching, mostly in Primary Schools, until she, reluctantly, retired in 2005. She is now a school governor and visits the school one afternoon each week to assist in various classrooms.
Adele has taken an active part in local politics and is a volunteer with Sheffield Talking News, a charity founded in the 1980’s in Sheffield to help the visually impaired access local news. She reads onto tapes and edits articles from local newspapers which all waive their copyright. To relax she is learning Italian and the piano (this last after a ‘lay off’ of 53 years!) She also enjoys her grandchildren who range in age from three months to seven years.
Pamela Perriam
Trustee
Pamela Perriam joined SheffCare as a Trustee in 2004, having had an opportunity to get to know something of its working and to feel the care and commitment underpinning its activities. Prior to that she had a varied working life, the latter part of which has been spent working with, and for, older people. She was Development Officer for the emergence of Age Concern Sheffield, later becoming its Director for a period of 12 years. She continues to be involved with other work in the city, including that of Darnall Dementia Group. Relaxation usually means walking, Scottish country dancing, reading and music.
Alison Richmond
Trustee
Alison qualified in 1982 as a Registered General Nurse in Sheffield. After gaining a range of experience in numerous clinical settings, Alison was appointed Ward Sister within a Health Care for the Elderly ward at Lodge Moor Hospital in 1986. In 1987 Alison became Senior Sister on the Stroke Unit at Nether Edge Hospital at which time she also attained the; English National Board Certificate in Intensive Care Nursing; Health Care for the Elderly and the Certificate in Education (Cert Ed).
On the closure of Nether Edge hospital, Alison moved into independent health care; opening and managing a 62 bedded care facility in Sheffield. After three years Alison was appointed as national Director of Quality and Management support. At this time she also attained the Certificate in Health Services Management from Sheffield Hallam University. In 1991 Alison began work for Barnsley PCT as a Specialist Nurse for Neuro rehabilitation and whilst there gained further qualifications including Post Registration Certificate – Rehabilitation (Sheffield University); Independent Prescribing (Sheffield Hallam) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (Sheffield Hallam). Alison played a crucial role in the service development and was responsible for an Inpatient, Outpatient and community service, leading on Dept of Health initiatives and appropriate legislation.
Alison is an Associate Lecturer for Northampton University and is also a Foundation Governor at a primary school in Sheffield. She joined SheffCare in June 2009, but shortly after, was approached by the Dept of Health to head up a new project, the Approved Provider Scheme. The national scheme, aimed at individuals with neurological issues, will be undertaken through Headway UK. The scope of the project will include the compliation and evaluation of standards for respite transitional care units and residential facilities. Two pilot schemes will be constructed and a diary of accredited providers compiled. Not wishing to lose valuable experience, Alison was asked to join the Board of Trustees of SheffCare.
Tony Warnes
Trustee
Tony Warnes is a researcher and academic, and Professor of Social Gerontology (the study of old age and ageing) at the Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing (SISA) in the University of Sheffield. His interests in the subject go back a long way, but his most recent projects have been about older migrants, training care-home staff and homelessness in old age. A project in 2006-08 will be into the potential of 'assistive and telecare technologies' for supporting older people with impairments and dependencies.
Tony has worked with numerous organisations concerned with the welfare and activities of older people. From 1994 to 2000 he was Chair of the British Society of Gerontology, the association of social scientists with special interests in studies of older people, and he is Editor of Ageing & Society (Cambridge University Press).