Meet Our Team

Robert (Bob) was born and educated in Northern Ireland. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1959 with a career in telecommunications, serving predominantly in Germany and Cyprus, and completing his service in 1981. Following this he studied Certified Accountancy at Sheffield Polytechnic for three years from 1981 to 1984 gaining a Polytechnic Associateship in Accountancy.

He subsequently joined the NHS in 1984 as an accountant and in a career stretching through to 2007 was employed in a variety of general management roles including that of Chief Executive of a Primary Care Group. In a specialist commissioning role he was also instrumental in the development of a Genetics Network across Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield.

Robert has been interested and involved in developing palliative care in the county from 1997. Working with Macmillan, Marie Curie, St Barnabas and other care providers he helped to keep palliative care in the forefront of commissioning plans. He also chaired the Mid Trent Cancer Network Palliative Care Group from 2002 to 2009 responsible for developing and implementing standards for palliative care across the network.

He was invited to become a trustee of St Barnabas in 2007 and subsequently elected as Chairman in the same year.

After serving as Chairman for twelve years, at the 2019 Annual General Meeting, Robert stood down as chairman and took on a brand new role as Trustee President.

Originally from Staffordshire, David has lived in Lincolnshire since 1987. He qualified and registered as a Pharmacist in 1973 and held senior posts in Hospital Pharmacy in both Cheshire and Lincolnshire until 1998.

David then held a number of senior management positions in the NHS until he retired in March 2013. David therefore brings 41 years of NHS experience to the role of Trustee.

David has also been a member of the Lincoln Prison Independent Monitoring Board since December 2012 and its Chairman since January 2015.

David’s hobbies include cycling, football and reading. He has also been a regular road runner for 30 years and has run a number of marathons including raising money for charity.

Tony was born in Lincoln and educated at the Royal Wolverhampton School. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and after qualifying and having spent some time in Edinburgh to gain experience, he returned to Lincoln and joined the family Wholesale Pharmaceutical business F Maltby & Sons Ltd. Having worked in all departments he became the Sales and Product manager and director responsible for IT systems.

In 1989 with the passing of his father, he became the Managing Director of the business and he and his brother took the business forward becoming the only Independent Wholesaler in the East Midlands and owning a chain of retail pharmacies. The business was sold to the Lincolnshire Co-operative Society in 2009 and having worked on to assist in the transition, he retired in 2013.

He is a Trustee and the Treasurer of the Lincoln Civic Trust and a Trustee and the Company Secretary of the Lindum Sports Association Ltd.

At the 2019 Annual General Meeting, Tony was elected as Trust Chairman.

Paul has spent all of his working life in commercial organisations, centered around marketing, design and print. Originally from Derby, Paul started his career as an apprentice printer, but worked through management levels until he moved to Lincoln in 1999 where he eventually became Managing Director of Ruddocks.

The role at Ruddocks brings him into contact with lots of people and organisations across the country and occasionally across Europe. There is a constant need for change in the sector and it means that he is constantly reviewing and adapting to the changes needed to meet demands of all stakeholders.

His career and personal life has brought him in touch with many of Lincoln’s well established charities and in particular with fundraising. It is through this that his working with St Barnabas came about and he was delighted to be invited to join the Board of Trustees.

He is a regular on BBC Radio Lincolnshire, both on the newspaper review and the lunch bunch. Paul is a keen networker, helping connect people that could help each other and is also involved in other business groups around Lincoln, including the Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce, where he is the current Lincoln area President until October 2017 and also the Institute of Directors.

Outside of work (and sometimes on his commute to work) Paul loves getting out on his road bike and tries to fit in a spot of golf where he can too. Paul and his partner Sally share four children between them and love spending time with family and friends and having a house full of visitors. They also love to spend time up in the Lake District where they have a family place on the edge of Windermere.

After training at Cambridge University and St Mary’s Hospital in London, David qualified as a doctor in 1978. His specialist training in respiratory medicine, including doing an MD on lung cancer, was undertaken in Birmingham. He moved over to Lincolnshire as a consultant in 1993, working at the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, until his retirement in 2014. Other activities during that period included membership of the British Thoracic Society’s Standards of Care Committee (the group that develops guidelines on how to best manage chest illnesses) for six years and then medical management, including Medical Director for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust between 2007 and 2010.

Since his retirement, David has been a member of the Governing Body of Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group, which commissions healthcare for the east side of the county, extending from North Somercotes to Holbeach. He joined the Board of Trustees at St Barnabas in December 2015.

Phillip has been associated with Andrew & Co LLP for almost forty years. Over that time he has held a number of senior roles. He retired from the Partnership at the end of March 2016 and now acts as a Consultant for the firm.

Phillip has a keen interest in the Charitable Sector and, in addition to being a member of our Board of Trustees, is Vice Chairman of the Lindum Sports Association and a trustee of Bransby Horses and Stamford Endowed Schools Foundation.

Phillip enjoys walking in the Lake District, watching cricket and rugby, swimming and has a keen interest in politics.

Sam Elkington has significant experience in negotiating Planning Agreements, complex property sales and acquisitions both in the public and private sector in respect of occupational requirements, developments and investment sales.

Sam was the Senior Partner and one of the founding Partners of Hodgson Elkington LLP which was formed in 1990 and became part of Lambert Smith Hampton in 2016.  With over 35 years involvement in the business he specialises in Property Management, Development and related Professional fields.

He provides expert advice on property investment, management and commercial matters, and has an interest in the economic regeneration of rural areas having promoted several schemes throughout Lincolnshire during his career.

Hayley qualified as a Physiotherapist in 1995 in Salford, Manchester, moving to Lincolnshire where she worked for 20 years in both clinical and management positions in the acute hospital.

She then moved to NHSE England/Improvement in 2015, holding a variety of senior roles in operational delivery, strategic management and most recently in strategic transformation supporting healthcare systems across the Central Midlands.

Hayley has a particular interest in the leadership of teams and its impact on patient outcomes, having undertaken several programmes and research which links her clinical background and professional interest in supporting people to do their best for those who need our support.

Hayley enjoys gardening, walking and visiting National Trust and Heritage sites.

James has worked in the Higher and Further Education sectors for over 20 years and, since October 2016, has been the Head of Quality Improvement at The Lincoln College Group.  Prior to this, James has supported the education of many students as a lecturer, course leader, teacher trainer and educational developer, whilst also previously undertaking external examiner roles for Leeds Beckett University.  James is also Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and recently completed a PhD in Educational Research and Development, researching creativity as an employability skill.

James has a keen interest in supporting charitable organisations, and family circumstances led James to experience first-hand the amazing work St Barnabas Hospice do for so many people.  James was, therefore, delighted to become a member of the Board of Trustees and support St Barnabas Hospice in whatever way he can.

In his spare time, James enjoys spending time with his family and participating in sports such as road cycling and walking.  James also likes to watch many different sports, including watching his son play football and cricket.  He also helps coach cricket at the local cricket club.

Dean has spent all of his working life in Retail, with the majority of this time being in some form of management.  Originally from Lincoln, Dean started his career as a Trainee Retail Manager but worked through various management roles until leaving retail management to move into shopping centre management.  Dean has been managing the Waterside Shopping Centre since 2016.

Dean’s role at Waterside brings him into contact with lots of people from across the city, county and beyond.  With the rapidly changing ‘face’ of retail it means he is constantly adapting to the changes in the industry needed to meet the demands of customers and stakeholders.

Dean’s career has brought him in touch with a number of different charities both local and national in particular with fundraising.  It was through working with St Barnabas  that came about the invitation to become a Trustee with which Dean was delighted to join The Board of Trustees.

Dean is involved in other organisations across Lincoln, including Lincoln BIG, where he is on the Board of Directors.