We are searching for a new Chair of Trustees to lead the organisation into its next phase of impact and influence
Our people The Burdett Trust for Nursing is administered by Rathbones Trust Company who employ staff to manage the charity on behalf of the Trustees. the Team The charity is managed by a team of two talented individuals who work hard to support the Trust’s grant making activity, striving to make this a positive experience for everyone. Clare Cable Chief Executive Close Clare Cable Chief Executive Clare is a registered nurse with significant expertise in charity governance, finance and policy. A children’s nurse by background, Clare had a long career in healthcare quality improvement and policy before stepping into the third sector. For the last decade Clare was Chief Executive of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) and has focussed her energies in creating safe and brave spaces where nurses can discover themselves and connect with a new sense of agency, by understanding what they need to flourish. She is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholar, an Honorary Professor of Nursing at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and a Visiting Professor, at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her vision is to unleash the creativity of nurses to be catalysts for positive change and advocates for the health of people, place and planet. Zoe Amasanti Business Operations and Events Manager Close Zoe Amasanti Business Operations and Events Manager As the Trust’s Business Operations and Events Manager, Zoe is the person who makes sure everything runs smoothly from board meetings and governance essentials to communications, grants and events. Whether Zoe is coordinating a grant cycle, shaping clear and engaging messaging, or bringing people together at events, she’s the friendly go‑to for all our stakeholders. With her mix of practicality and strong organisation, Zoe helps strengthen the Trust’s work every day. She is always ready to help, connect and make things that little bit easier for everyone. the Trustees The Burdett Trust for Nursing is governed by a board of trustees. The trustees are responsible for the governance of the charity, setting the strategic direction and overseeing all funding decisions. They bring specialist knowledge from a range of backgrounds and are closely involved in all aspects of the Trust’s work. Alan Gibbs Chairman of Trustees Close Alan Gibbs Chairman of Trustees Alan Gibbs was on the Council of the RNPFN from 1996 until its sale to Liverpool Victoria in 2001 and has been the Chairman of the Burdett Trust for Nursing since its inception. His great-grandfather, Henry Hucks Gibbs, was one of the original sponsors of RNPFN in 1887. After graduating from Oxford in 1974, Alan worked in the Far East and London in the investment markets for Flemings and J.O. Hambro. He is now, more or less, retired. Dame Christine Beasley Chair of the Grants Committee Close Dame Christine Beasley Chair of the Grants Committee Christine has worked in various roles across the NHS in a 50 year career. Her final role was as Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Health, a position she held from 2004-12. She is currently Non-Executive Director of Kings College N.H.S. Trust and the board’s Maternity Safety Champion. She is also Chair of the Florence Nightingale Museum, Chair of the board of the Nursing Now Challenge Advisory Committee and a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and the Queen’s Nursing Institute. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Northumbria, Sheffield Hallam, Keele, Plymouth, and City University, London. Christine was awarded a CBE in 2002 and a DBE in June 2008. Audrey Ardern-Jones OBE Trustee Close Audrey Ardern-Jones OBE Trustee Audrey trained at The Middlesex Hospital and spent many years as a Community Nursing Sister. She has been involved in research for much of her career, beginning with the Medical Research Council and later moving to the Institute of Cancer Research. As a nurse specialist and leader in her field, she developed the first gene carrier clinic for cancer patients and their families, and her qualitative research focused on the patient’s perspective within this newly developing area of nursing practice. She also helped to establish and develop the Cancer Genetics Services at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in Chelsea. She has published extensively, taught worldwide, and served on a number of Department of Health committees. In 2013, she received the OBE for services to cancer genetics nursing care at The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust She currently holds an honorary contract as a researcher within the oncogenetics team at the Institute of Cancer Research. She is a published poet and is the Artist in Residence at The Royal Marsden. She teaches creative writing to cancer patients at the Maggie’s Centre in Sutton and teaches art and poetry to children in the hospital’s children’s unit. Andrew Gibbs Trustee Close Andrew Gibbs Trustee Andrew Gibbs joined Vintage Asset Management in September 2019. He has over 35 years investment management experience focused on Asian, emerging market and global equities for major institutions in Asia, America and Europe. Over his career he has managed long only equity mandates, hedge funds, investment trusts, unit trusts, pension funds and multi asset portfolios. He started his career in 1988 in London with Manulife, the Canadian life insurance company. In 1993, he moved to Hong Kong with Carlson Investment Management, now part of DNB Asset Management. While there he launched and managed the Dublin listed Siam Recovery and Sri Lanka Growth Funds. On returning to London, he managed market neutral hedge funds for Quaestor Investment and institutional mandates for New Star Asset Management. From 2012 to 2019 he worked as a manager and team supervisor at Henderson Rowe, the UK discretionary private client manager. A keen skier, cricketer, potter and pianist, he has 3 children and lives in London. Andrew Martin Smith Trustee Close Andrew Martin Smith Trustee Andrew Martin Smith began his career at Hambros Bank in 1975 as a graduate from Oxford University. He has over 30 years experience in the financial services industry and currently works on private equity related matters with Guinness Asset Management. He is Chairman of Parmenion Capital Management and a Director of other investment related companies including Church House Trust PLC, Runciman Investments, and Atlantis Japan Growth and M&G High Income investment trusts. Andrew has spent the last 15 years specifically involved in the fund management industry firstly as Chief Executive of Hambros Fund Management where the RNPFN was a long established client. He joined Berkshire Capital Securites after Hambros’ successor fund management interests were acquired by Investec. His experience at Berkshire has involved him in providing advice and raising capital for several new independent fund management companies and he remains an advisory director. Andrew is a trustee of several family and charitable organisations and a school Governor. David Martin Smith Trustee Close David Martin Smith Trustee David Martin Smith is Managing Director of Care Concern Group a national UK care home operator. He has over fifteen years’ experience in the UK healthcare sector both from an operational and institutional background. David started his career with Evelyn Partners (formerly Smith & Williamson) where he trained as a chartered accountant in the audit and business services team. Post-qualification, he spent three years working in corporate finance advising companies and shareholders on business strategy. He subsequently joined the UK focussed private equity fund Downing LLP where he was an Investment Director focussed on origination, transactional execution and portfolio management. David lives in London with his family. In his spare time, David is a keen golfer and cricketer. David Sines CBE Trustee Close David Sines CBE Trustee Professor David Sines was recently Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean and Professor of Community Health Care Nursing at the Faculty of Society and Health at Buckinghamshire New University. He held previous roles as Executive Dean for the Faculty of Health & Social Care at London South Bank University and as Head of School of Health Sciences at the University of Ulster. David obtained his PhD in social policy from the University of Southampton in 1993 and has held four Secretary of State appointments, including appointments to the UKCC and NMC. He has been a Governor of three NHS Foundation Trusts in London. He previously held an Honorary Appointment with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as Associate Director of Nursing. He is a Fellow of the RCN and received a CBE in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for ‘Services to Health Care’. Until 2021 David was a Non-Executive Director with the Central London NHS Community Healthcare Trust and an Associate Non-Executive Director with Buckinghamshire NHS Hospitals Trust. David has been appointed as Provost and Emeritus Professor of Community Healthcare at Buckinghamshire New University and as the Chair of the Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy. Professor Dame Donna Kinnair Trustee Close Professor Dame Donna Kinnair Trustee Donna is a Trustee of the Burdett Trust. She is a Non-Executive Director at East London Foundation Trust and The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. She was the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) until June 2021.She was responsible for delivering the RCN’s strategic and operational plans and promoting patient and nursing interests on a wide range of issues. Donna held various roles, prior to joining the RCN, including clinical director of emergency medicine at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust; Executive Director of Nursing, Southeast London Cluster Board; Director of Commissioning, London Borough of Southwark & Southwark PCT. She was the Strategic Commissioner for Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority’s Children’s Services. Donna advised the PM’s Commission on the future of Nursing and Midwifery in 2010 and served as nurse/child health assessor to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry. She was made a DBE in 2008 for services to nursing. Evy Hambro Trustee Close Evy Hambro Trustee Evy Hambro, Managing Director, is Global Head of Thematic and Sector Investing for BlackRock. He sits on the BlackRock Global Operating Committee, European Executive Committee and the Fundamental Equity Executive Committee. Evy is responsible for the management of the BGF World Mining and BGF World Gold Funds. He is also manager of the BlackRock Gold and General Fund and the BlackRock World Mining Trust. Mr Hambro’s service with the firm dates back to 1994 including his years with Mercury Asset Management and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) which merged with BlackRock in 2006. He has worked for the firm in London, Sydney and Toronto. Mr Hambro earned a BSc degree, with honors, in Agricultural Food Marketing, from Newcastle University in 1994. He is a warden for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, an adviser to the Julian Baring Scholarship Fund and manages a farm in the UK. Jan Stevens CBE Trustee Close Jan Stevens CBE Trustee Janice Stevens CBE.RN MA DSc(hon). Member Faculty of nursing (RCS Ireland) Awarded a CBE for nursing and healthcare in 2010, Janice has had an extensive and varied NHS career, with roles at all levels of the NHS. Beginning as an A/E nurse eventually becoming an Executive Director of Nursing In 2005 Janice reported to England’s Chief Nursing Officer at Department of Health leading and successfully delivering three high profile national programmes – reducing MRSA, C.difficile and elimination of mixed-sex accommodation. In 2012 Janice joined the newly formed Health Education as Managing Director of Health Education West Midlands and then as a national director overseeing the three LETB’s across Midlands and East,. She is proud of the work she has championed on widening participation and leading the Come Back Campaign for Nurses. In 2015 Janice was asked to support Barts Health and then Worcestershire Acute as their turnaround CNO. when they were placed in special measures. After a short break in 2018 Janice embarked on a new role as Chief Nurse at the UKs largest and most complex private hospital – The Wellington Hospital where she currently works. Rachael Corser Trustee Close Rachael Corser Trustee Rachael has been nursing for 30 years. After completing her training at Kings College Hospital, London, Rachael has worked across complex health and care settings in acute, community, integrated and independent healthcare sectors. Rachael has a first degree in nursing practice, a masters degree in nursing research and innovation, and a masters degree in wound care. Rachael is the group chief nursing officer at Barts Health NHS Trust and has previously been the chief nursing officer at the NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB and East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust where she was instrumental to the trust’s response to the pandemic. Rachael is passionate about delivering nursing, midwifery and allied health professional excellence at all levels, striving for international recognition of excellence in nursing practice. Nurturing and growing talent, enhancing the well-being of the workforce, and embedding excellence in practice with a personal commitment to research, transformation, innovation and improvement is what motivates and energises Rachael. Rachael is incredibly proud to be a Trustee for the Burdett Trust for Nursing and will bring her extensive clinical, academic and board experience to the role of Trustee. Rachael is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholar and a Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire and has published in nursing journals and text books. Partnerships
Clare Cable Chief Executive Close Clare Cable Chief Executive Clare is a registered nurse with significant expertise in charity governance, finance and policy. A children’s nurse by background, Clare had a long career in healthcare quality improvement and policy before stepping into the third sector. For the last decade Clare was Chief Executive of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) and has focussed her energies in creating safe and brave spaces where nurses can discover themselves and connect with a new sense of agency, by understanding what they need to flourish. She is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholar, an Honorary Professor of Nursing at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and a Visiting Professor, at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her vision is to unleash the creativity of nurses to be catalysts for positive change and advocates for the health of people, place and planet.
Zoe Amasanti Business Operations and Events Manager Close Zoe Amasanti Business Operations and Events Manager As the Trust’s Business Operations and Events Manager, Zoe is the person who makes sure everything runs smoothly from board meetings and governance essentials to communications, grants and events. Whether Zoe is coordinating a grant cycle, shaping clear and engaging messaging, or bringing people together at events, she’s the friendly go‑to for all our stakeholders. With her mix of practicality and strong organisation, Zoe helps strengthen the Trust’s work every day. She is always ready to help, connect and make things that little bit easier for everyone.
Alan Gibbs Chairman of Trustees Close Alan Gibbs Chairman of Trustees Alan Gibbs was on the Council of the RNPFN from 1996 until its sale to Liverpool Victoria in 2001 and has been the Chairman of the Burdett Trust for Nursing since its inception. His great-grandfather, Henry Hucks Gibbs, was one of the original sponsors of RNPFN in 1887. After graduating from Oxford in 1974, Alan worked in the Far East and London in the investment markets for Flemings and J.O. Hambro. He is now, more or less, retired.
Dame Christine Beasley Chair of the Grants Committee Close Dame Christine Beasley Chair of the Grants Committee Christine has worked in various roles across the NHS in a 50 year career. Her final role was as Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Health, a position she held from 2004-12. She is currently Non-Executive Director of Kings College N.H.S. Trust and the board’s Maternity Safety Champion. She is also Chair of the Florence Nightingale Museum, Chair of the board of the Nursing Now Challenge Advisory Committee and a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and the Queen’s Nursing Institute. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Northumbria, Sheffield Hallam, Keele, Plymouth, and City University, London. Christine was awarded a CBE in 2002 and a DBE in June 2008.
Audrey Ardern-Jones OBE Trustee Close Audrey Ardern-Jones OBE Trustee Audrey trained at The Middlesex Hospital and spent many years as a Community Nursing Sister. She has been involved in research for much of her career, beginning with the Medical Research Council and later moving to the Institute of Cancer Research. As a nurse specialist and leader in her field, she developed the first gene carrier clinic for cancer patients and their families, and her qualitative research focused on the patient’s perspective within this newly developing area of nursing practice. She also helped to establish and develop the Cancer Genetics Services at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in Chelsea. She has published extensively, taught worldwide, and served on a number of Department of Health committees. In 2013, she received the OBE for services to cancer genetics nursing care at The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust She currently holds an honorary contract as a researcher within the oncogenetics team at the Institute of Cancer Research. She is a published poet and is the Artist in Residence at The Royal Marsden. She teaches creative writing to cancer patients at the Maggie’s Centre in Sutton and teaches art and poetry to children in the hospital’s children’s unit.
Andrew Gibbs Trustee Close Andrew Gibbs Trustee Andrew Gibbs joined Vintage Asset Management in September 2019. He has over 35 years investment management experience focused on Asian, emerging market and global equities for major institutions in Asia, America and Europe. Over his career he has managed long only equity mandates, hedge funds, investment trusts, unit trusts, pension funds and multi asset portfolios. He started his career in 1988 in London with Manulife, the Canadian life insurance company. In 1993, he moved to Hong Kong with Carlson Investment Management, now part of DNB Asset Management. While there he launched and managed the Dublin listed Siam Recovery and Sri Lanka Growth Funds. On returning to London, he managed market neutral hedge funds for Quaestor Investment and institutional mandates for New Star Asset Management. From 2012 to 2019 he worked as a manager and team supervisor at Henderson Rowe, the UK discretionary private client manager. A keen skier, cricketer, potter and pianist, he has 3 children and lives in London.
Andrew Martin Smith Trustee Close Andrew Martin Smith Trustee Andrew Martin Smith began his career at Hambros Bank in 1975 as a graduate from Oxford University. He has over 30 years experience in the financial services industry and currently works on private equity related matters with Guinness Asset Management. He is Chairman of Parmenion Capital Management and a Director of other investment related companies including Church House Trust PLC, Runciman Investments, and Atlantis Japan Growth and M&G High Income investment trusts. Andrew has spent the last 15 years specifically involved in the fund management industry firstly as Chief Executive of Hambros Fund Management where the RNPFN was a long established client. He joined Berkshire Capital Securites after Hambros’ successor fund management interests were acquired by Investec. His experience at Berkshire has involved him in providing advice and raising capital for several new independent fund management companies and he remains an advisory director. Andrew is a trustee of several family and charitable organisations and a school Governor.
David Martin Smith Trustee Close David Martin Smith Trustee David Martin Smith is Managing Director of Care Concern Group a national UK care home operator. He has over fifteen years’ experience in the UK healthcare sector both from an operational and institutional background. David started his career with Evelyn Partners (formerly Smith & Williamson) where he trained as a chartered accountant in the audit and business services team. Post-qualification, he spent three years working in corporate finance advising companies and shareholders on business strategy. He subsequently joined the UK focussed private equity fund Downing LLP where he was an Investment Director focussed on origination, transactional execution and portfolio management. David lives in London with his family. In his spare time, David is a keen golfer and cricketer.
David Sines CBE Trustee Close David Sines CBE Trustee Professor David Sines was recently Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean and Professor of Community Health Care Nursing at the Faculty of Society and Health at Buckinghamshire New University. He held previous roles as Executive Dean for the Faculty of Health & Social Care at London South Bank University and as Head of School of Health Sciences at the University of Ulster. David obtained his PhD in social policy from the University of Southampton in 1993 and has held four Secretary of State appointments, including appointments to the UKCC and NMC. He has been a Governor of three NHS Foundation Trusts in London. He previously held an Honorary Appointment with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as Associate Director of Nursing. He is a Fellow of the RCN and received a CBE in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for ‘Services to Health Care’. Until 2021 David was a Non-Executive Director with the Central London NHS Community Healthcare Trust and an Associate Non-Executive Director with Buckinghamshire NHS Hospitals Trust. David has been appointed as Provost and Emeritus Professor of Community Healthcare at Buckinghamshire New University and as the Chair of the Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy.
Professor Dame Donna Kinnair Trustee Close Professor Dame Donna Kinnair Trustee Donna is a Trustee of the Burdett Trust. She is a Non-Executive Director at East London Foundation Trust and The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. She was the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) until June 2021.She was responsible for delivering the RCN’s strategic and operational plans and promoting patient and nursing interests on a wide range of issues. Donna held various roles, prior to joining the RCN, including clinical director of emergency medicine at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust; Executive Director of Nursing, Southeast London Cluster Board; Director of Commissioning, London Borough of Southwark & Southwark PCT. She was the Strategic Commissioner for Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority’s Children’s Services. Donna advised the PM’s Commission on the future of Nursing and Midwifery in 2010 and served as nurse/child health assessor to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry. She was made a DBE in 2008 for services to nursing.
Evy Hambro Trustee Close Evy Hambro Trustee Evy Hambro, Managing Director, is Global Head of Thematic and Sector Investing for BlackRock. He sits on the BlackRock Global Operating Committee, European Executive Committee and the Fundamental Equity Executive Committee. Evy is responsible for the management of the BGF World Mining and BGF World Gold Funds. He is also manager of the BlackRock Gold and General Fund and the BlackRock World Mining Trust. Mr Hambro’s service with the firm dates back to 1994 including his years with Mercury Asset Management and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) which merged with BlackRock in 2006. He has worked for the firm in London, Sydney and Toronto. Mr Hambro earned a BSc degree, with honors, in Agricultural Food Marketing, from Newcastle University in 1994. He is a warden for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, an adviser to the Julian Baring Scholarship Fund and manages a farm in the UK.
Jan Stevens CBE Trustee Close Jan Stevens CBE Trustee Janice Stevens CBE.RN MA DSc(hon). Member Faculty of nursing (RCS Ireland) Awarded a CBE for nursing and healthcare in 2010, Janice has had an extensive and varied NHS career, with roles at all levels of the NHS. Beginning as an A/E nurse eventually becoming an Executive Director of Nursing In 2005 Janice reported to England’s Chief Nursing Officer at Department of Health leading and successfully delivering three high profile national programmes – reducing MRSA, C.difficile and elimination of mixed-sex accommodation. In 2012 Janice joined the newly formed Health Education as Managing Director of Health Education West Midlands and then as a national director overseeing the three LETB’s across Midlands and East,. She is proud of the work she has championed on widening participation and leading the Come Back Campaign for Nurses. In 2015 Janice was asked to support Barts Health and then Worcestershire Acute as their turnaround CNO. when they were placed in special measures. After a short break in 2018 Janice embarked on a new role as Chief Nurse at the UKs largest and most complex private hospital – The Wellington Hospital where she currently works.
Rachael Corser Trustee Close Rachael Corser Trustee Rachael has been nursing for 30 years. After completing her training at Kings College Hospital, London, Rachael has worked across complex health and care settings in acute, community, integrated and independent healthcare sectors. Rachael has a first degree in nursing practice, a masters degree in nursing research and innovation, and a masters degree in wound care. Rachael is the group chief nursing officer at Barts Health NHS Trust and has previously been the chief nursing officer at the NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB and East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust where she was instrumental to the trust’s response to the pandemic. Rachael is passionate about delivering nursing, midwifery and allied health professional excellence at all levels, striving for international recognition of excellence in nursing practice. Nurturing and growing talent, enhancing the well-being of the workforce, and embedding excellence in practice with a personal commitment to research, transformation, innovation and improvement is what motivates and energises Rachael. Rachael is incredibly proud to be a Trustee for the Burdett Trust for Nursing and will bring her extensive clinical, academic and board experience to the role of Trustee. Rachael is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholar and a Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire and has published in nursing journals and text books.