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John Turner MInstF (Cert) - Chair/Trustee
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Born in Kent “an awfully long time ago(!)” John now lives in Cumbria where he runs a successful charity fundraising consultancy. A founder member of Respite John is also a Trustee of The Bentley Young Persons Trust and is an Associate Mental Health Act Manager for Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Having spent many years as a volunteer fundraiser, earning a living in the book trade, he joined The Nottinghamshire Hospice as full time fundraiser in 1997 before moving to Cumbria. It is the work at the hospice along with first hand experience that made John realise the desperate need for an organisation like the Respite Association |
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Dr Alastair Bell MBBS DFFP - Secretary/Trustee
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Principal in General Practice in Holbeach Lincolnshire. Alastair has been in general practice as a principal for 23 years and senior partner for 9 years. He was instrumental in saving the local hospital from closure and preserving and expanding the respite element in that unit. He has been a non executive director of the FHSA and Lincolnshire Health. He has also been the Forensic Medical Officer for Lincolnshire Police for 14 years. He is married to Carole and has two grown up children. |
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Kate Turner MInstF (Cert) - Treasurer/Trustee
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Kate has been involved with Charity work since her stint as Office Manager for the Myasthenia Gravis Association, a national medical charity. Through MGA Kate met her Husband John who she married in 1997 and they now live in (very) rural Cumbria with their dizzy collie dog Jess. Kate has worked for, and managed, several other charities and continues to be involved with Charities up and down the Country (and around the World) as a Consultant with her Husband’s Charity Advisory Business. Kate has been a Trustee of Respite since 2002 and is a Full Certificated Member of the Institute of Fundraising and also the holder of accountancy qualifications (which certainly helps when undertaking the Treasurer’s role!) |
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Catherine Scaife - Trustee
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Catherine lives in South Yorkshire with her husband Rodney, who suffers from vascular dementia, and so she has first hand experience of the demands of being a sole carer 24/7. She worked in local government before taking early retirement and, in a career spanning more years than she cares to remember, has worked in other fields ranging from the health service to the BBC (but always in an administrative role).
Catherine and Rodney have a son and daughter, three grand daughters and one grandson and are priveleged to be allowed to live in the same house as their two cats. |
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Eilene Keeling - Admin & I.T.
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Eilene Keeling - Admin & I.T. - For some years she was the carer for her late husband, Barrie, who suffered from long-term heart disease. Until early 2010 Eilene worked as the P.A to the Finance Director of a flourishing local company in Lincolnshire. In 1999 Eilene married our Chief Executive Preston. Apart from her involvement with the Respite Association Eilene is a supporter of the Butterfly Hospice Trust in Boston Lincolnshire. Eilene has two grown-up children Linzie and Neil and two young grandchildren who are the apple of her eye. |
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Preston Keeling FInstF - Chief Executive
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Preston has been active in the voluntary sector for over 40 years. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Fundraising. For almost ten years he was a senior manager with Scope, serving on the team that managed the name change away from being called The Spastics Society. Preston served as the Chief Executive of The Myasthenia Gravis Association (A national medical Charity) for over five years, before helping to set-up the Respite Association after caring for his wife Dorothy prior to her death from Cancer. Preston is involved with a number of other charitable and/or health organisations, was until recently the Chair of the Lincolnshire LINk which he remains an Executive Board Member of, he also serves as the LINk representative on the Lincolnshire County Councils Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee and is a Trustee of the Boston Stump Restoration Trust. Previously Preston was a Non-Executive Director on an NHS PCT and was the Public Design Champion on the project to build (now completed) the new Johnson Hospital in Spalding. Preston has two adult daughters. He re-married some years ago and lives in Lincolnshire with his wife Eilene and their two dogs and British Blue cat.
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| The Respite Association is about the little things; a chance to relax, to shop or to have a break. The things we all take for granted...until they are taken away! |
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