Our people
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Kate Tompkins
Chair of Trustees
Kate is a Trustee and Chairs the Forum of Hospice Chairs for Hospice UK. She is currently leading a monthly zoom meeting for Trustees across UK which includes key note speakers reflecting the transformation and sustainability principles from the recent KPMG/Hospice UK report.
Previous roles held include Chair of the Royal Osteoporosis Society Board of Trustees, Chief Nurse and Chief Executive in the NHS, Regional Director South West for the Royal College of Nursing and Chief Executive of Cavell Nurses’ Trust.
Ian Lafferty
Vice Chair of Trustees
Retail specialist with many years experience at Board level at national DIY store. One of his main achievements at Focus DIY was the rapid expansion of retail presence of the brand.
Christine Davis
Trustee
Social worker with extensive children and family experience previous counsellor at Macmillan Cancer Care.
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Francesca Thompson
Trustee
Francesca's background is specialist palliative care and she has worked in a number of hospices and voluntary care sector organisations, including St Christopher's Hospice in London. It was here that she had the privilege to work with its founder, Dame Cicely Saunders. Francesca has a passion for understanding what matters most to our patients and their loved ones and having learnt so much of what does matter during her hospice years, she is keen to spread her learning.
Francesca was also Chief Operating Officer at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and during her time at the RUH she pioneered the role of a head for patient experience and led the early design of a Quality Improvement Centre which continues to flourish at the RUH.
Francesca lives with her husband in Bath and has 2 grown up daughters.
Brian Mansfield
Trustee
Brian is a career marketer having worked client side with BA then in strategic marketing consultancy and for the last decade as a leader of creative agencies. He specialises in brand strategy and innovation and currently leads Taxi Studio, one of the UK's top 10 creative agencies.
James Gare
Treasurer
James has been specialising with not for profit clients since 1999 and completed his training with Ernst and Young in 2002 where he was involved with the audit of several large charities. James has recently joined MHA Monahans, transferring from another MHA firm; MHA MacIntyre Hudson. James holds the Diploma in Charity Accounting and has lectured at CASS Business School on their MSc in Charity Finance.