trustees

Involved with Counsel and Care since 1968; Active in appeals and fundraising, as a volunteer organiser, since 1978; A Council Member since 1982; Stood down as Chairman and became President in 2004; Past Captain and active member of Malden Golf Club and a past Governor of St. George's School, Switzerland; Lives in Claygate, Surrey.

Appointed to Council in 1997; Sushil has extensive experience in provision of residential care and domiciliary care having worked at senior level for Care First Care Homes (now BUPA Care Homes); currently he is Managing Director of Westminster Homecare, a company that provides domiciliary care for older people and adults.

Has a background in nursing and had many senior management positions in the NHS retiring as Chief Nurse and Director of Quality Assurance for Barts and the London NHS Trust in 1997. Developed standards particularly for older patients relating to the care they received as well as the environment in which they were cared for. Worked with the Kings Fund developing organisational standards for Health Care facilities and worked as a surveyor for them.

Following retirement worked for five years as a Prison Inspector assessing and developing health care standards for prisoners, also worked with the General Medical Council sitting on the disciplinary panels. Is also the Chairman for the Board of St Joseph's Hospice. Has worked as a Trustee for many years for Counsel and Care and become Chairman in 2004.

A Chartered Accountant and Corporate Treasurer. Worked with Taylor Clark Limited, a large family owned investment and property company since 1988. Currently Financial Controller and Manager of associated grant making charity, The Underwood Trust since 1992.

Barrister of Inner Temple (Lincoln's Inn). Recorder of Crown Court (Awaiting Warrant). Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn & Tenants' Association. Trustee of Les Higgs (Discretionary) Trust. Special interests; learning Swedish and Room Service!

Involved with Counsel and Care since 1978 and currently a member of the Finance & General Purposes Committee; Has worked in the private, public and voluntary sectors, at GEC, NCCOP – now CPA, the London Borough of Waltham Forest and is currently CEO of the Association of Charity Officers – a national network of over 200 charities and benevolent funds that help individuals in need by grants, advice and other support. A Trustee of the Umanalini Mary Brahma Charitable Trust and the Relatives and Residents Association she lives in Hertfordshire.

With her husband, Mr Bob Graham, our founder, set up the Elderly Invalids Fund and has held almost every staff and honorary position in the organisation; Now retired from full-time employment; A committee member of the Professional Classes Aid Council; Lives in Hythe, Kent.

Medical advisor to Counsel and Care since 1987; Consultant Geriatrician at Addenbrook's Hospital, Cambridge and Associate Clinical Lecturer at the University of Cambridge; Honorary public information officer of the British Geriatric Society; Lives in Cambridge.

Dr Tom Dening has been a Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age Psychiatry, Cambridge, since 1991.
From 1999-2002 he was a senior professional adviser to the Dept. of Health, including work on the National Service Framework for Older People.
Since 2002 he has been the Medical Director of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Medical Director, BUPA Care Services since 2000 previously a Consultant Physician and Geriantologist, has a wide ranging interest in the needs and provision of care for older people and is extensively involved in the development of care.

Rupert is a founding partner of Stanton Marris, a London based organisation consulting firm where he has works on large scale behavioural and cultural change with client teams.  He has had a varied career in line management and consulting, starting as a British Army officer in Germany, the Falkland Islands, Northern Ireland and the South Pacific.  After his MBA he joined General Motors and worked in Finance and Marketing in the Europe where he was involved in a major customer focus initiative to revolutionise the car buyer's experience of dealers.  He then joined Kinsley Lord-Towers Perrin as a consultant specialising in change work.  He has been with Stanton Marris since 1999 and is a Partner.

Alison Knapp is a Trustee of Counsel and Care. Alison was appointed in October 2004 as Acting Chief Executive of Counsel and Care, and remained in post until the arrival of Stephen Burke in March 2005.   Alison trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and has held senior nursing posts within surgical services. From 1994 she held the post of Director of Nursing at The Royal London Hospital.

Malcolm Dean worked on The Guardian for 38 years initially as a roving reporter and then specialised in social policy, launching and running the paper's weekly Society section for most of its first 20 years while writing daily editorials on social affairs. He was seconded by the paper in 1978 to serve as special adviser to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Services in the last year of the 1976-79 Labour government; served eight years on the Scott Trust, which owns both The Guardian and Observer, between 1994-2002; wrote a regular column on the politics of health in the Lancet medical journal for 15 years; sat on the Chief Medical Officer's advisory group on the regulation of doctors; and chaired a Joseph Rowntree Foundation commission on older people. He retired from the paper in 2006 and was awarded a fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he is writing a book on the media's influence on social policy.

Approximately forty years spent in health care management in various parts of the UK, the last fifteen years as chief executive. Associated with a number of charities, mainly concerned with healthcare.