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EACH Trustees

EACH is governed by a Board of Trustees with considerable and varied professional backgrounds and expertise...

Mr Charles Paull - Chair of Trustees

Charles Paull - Chairman

Graduate of London University, initially University College (BA Hons) and then the London School of Economics (M.Phil) prior to becoming a Chartered Accountant (FCA).

Trained in accountancy by Price Waterhouse, worked for Alcan, the aluminium people, Cape Industries, in their car-parts manufacturing business, then with Hillsdown Holdings before spending nearly 20 years with B.T., ending as their Director of Accounting. Involved in several business takeovers for BT, both in the USA and Europe. Retired in December 2004 having moved BT team to Xansa, the software integrator, forming a new division specialising in outsourcing administration. Charles became a Trustee when he retired but actually started raising funds for his local hospice as early as 1993 - when he appeared as a dwarf in a pantomime!

Jane Browning

Miss Jane Browning

Jane worked in the fields of marketing and public relations for more than 25 years, culminating in a role as director of Cambridgeshire’s leading PR agency which was also ranked among the UK’s top 100. Her PR and marketing work focused on public education and awareness-raising activities, primarily in the healthcare field. She is a volunteer for the Samaritans. Educated at London School of Economics she has a BSc (Econ) International History. She has also worked for Conde Nast Magazines and has been the marketing director of the Royal College of Nursing.

Mrs Tracy Cottis

Tracy Cottis

Tracy has a BSc Hons in Biochemistry from the University of Wales. She is currently employed by HM Revenues & Customs in Cambridge leading a team of 24 tax specialists. She has overall responsibility for security, health & safety, business continuity and business recovery. She was for eight years a member of the Colchester Samaritans, five years as a team leader and three as a Deputy Director. Tracy has a particular understanding of EACH's services as her daughter Amy used the Ipswich hospice until she died in 2007, aged 3. EACH continue to support her family.

Mrs Sue Dougal

Sue has had a career in financial services and retail. She worked for the Norwich & Peterborough Group until 2005, and has a MBA in Retailing from the University of Stirling. Sue Dougal

She is the Chair of WEETU which is an internationally renowned not-for-profit organisation supporting women in enterprise and employment.

Mr Michael J Flynn RSCN RGN MBA

Lives in Sprowston near Norwich and has a background in Children's Nursing and General Management. Has worked at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and the Medway NHS Trust.

Michael has managed hospital and community paediatrics, neonatology, obstetrics and midwifery, foetal medicine, school health, learning disabilities, school health and specialist health visiting. In addition, he has held Mike Flynnan interregnum appointment as director of community child health.

He retired from the NHS after 38 years service and now sits as a Magistrate in Norwich and is also a Specialist Panel Member of the Care Standards Tribunal.

Mr Robert Gardiner

Robert is a tax partner in the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. While his day to day work for clients is not relevant to the hospice, he runs his own teams within the firm and knows what the challenges are of managing teams and providing services to clients, and he is familiar also with Robert Gardiner (left)compliance with regulations and ensuring high standards. Robert lives in Cambridge and has been a resident of that town on and off for 28 years, both as a child and adult. Robert’s non-work interests include rowing – he coaches the juniors at his children’s school – and a keen gardener. Robert began supporting EACH during a three month sabbatical from PwC during 2006 – he worked a couple of days a week in the garden and after returning to work was keen to maintain contact as a foil to his mainstream work and to try to offer something to people who might be able to use his skills. This led to an invitation to join the Board of Trustees in January of 2007.

Mrs Helen Harrison-Hall

Helen Harrison-Hall

Helen took early retirement in 2007 from the international law firm, Allen & Overy LLP. Educated at Somerville College, University of Oxford she has a MA in Modern History. As a partner with Allen & Overy she was involved in a full range of corporate and corporate finance work for UK and overseas, public and private companies. Her interests include heritage and historic buildings, the arts and culture.

Mr Bob Jones

Bob JonesBob is former Chief Executive of West Suffolk Hospital and ex Chief Executive of St Nicholas Adult Hospice, where he spent 12 years. He currently works as an independent consultant and undertakes voluntary work for the hospice movement on a national level. Other voluntary activity includes: being a school governor, working with the mental health charity, MIND and membership of the Macmillan Cancer Relief National Council.

Mr Stephen Oliver

Stephen OliverAfter graduating in Law and gaining an MBA, Stephen has worked most of his career in the software industry, performing product development and international marketing roles with organisations such as SEMA (now Atos Origin), SWIFT and Microsoft. He is a serial entrepreneur and now works exclusively with universities, bringing advanced technologies to market through spin-out companies. He is an accredited business adviser and mentor and holds a number of non-executive board positions. Stephen lived in Brussels and Paris for 15 years before returning to the UK in 1998 and now lives in Soham. He is married with 2 teenage children. When he has spare time he enjoys participating in club motorsport, reading, travelling and enjoying fine food and wine. He is an active Rotarian and first came into contact with EACH while raising funds for the charity with Soham Rotary Club, where he was impressed by the professionalism and dedication of staff and volunteers. He has been a Trustee since 2005.

Roger Page

Roger Page

With over 20 years at board level, Roger was employed by the Kier Group from 1994 to 2009 and held positions of Sales and Marketing Director at Twigden Homes, and Managing Director of Bellwinch Homes. Before taking early retirement he was Managing Director of Kier Residential responsible for all housing operations.

Roger was also involved in the acquisition and delivery of mixed use schemes including social housing, retail, offices, hotels, education and infrastructure. Living in Brampton with his wife, his interests include classic cars and travel, when not spending time with his children and grandchildren.

Bill Robinson

Bill Robinson

Bill has lived in Ipswich since 1982 and during that time has held a number of senior management posts in the NHS. He is Chair of Governors at Copleston High School and an active Rotarian having been President of the Rotary Club of Ipswich East in 2002/03. He is also a former Chairman of East Suffolk MIND. Bill has supported EACH in a number of fundraising events and has undertaken two Santa Runs in Christchurch Park. He lives only 200 yards from the site of the proposed new Children’s Hospice in Ipswich.

Dr Virginia Warren

Dr Virginia WarrenVirginia is the mother of two university students, and the aunt of a child who would use EACH's services if the family lived in East Anglia. She was born in East Suffolk, had strong links with it throughout her childhood, and has lived in and around Cambridge since she came to Addenbrooke's to qualify as a doctor. She works major part time in London, in a job which helps her to contribute to EACH's clinical governance. As well as being a trustee with EACH she also volunteers with The Wulugu Project, a Norfolk based charity supporting girls' education in Northern Ghana.