Meet the Trustees

Sheffield Carers Centre is governed by a Board of Trustees and co-opted members. A number of committees support the work of the Board and provide expert insight, experience, knowledge and skills into specific areas of our work.

These currently include committees for (1) Finance and Resources (2) Corporate Governance (3) Quality, Outcomes and Performance and (4) The Carers Expert Panel. Membership of the Committees includes volunteers and carers in addition to Board members.

We aim to have a Board and governance structure reflecting the diversity of the caring population in Sheffield. To achieve this we actively seek Board members from under-represented communities, ensure that our selection process is fair and provide support for all Board members to carry out their role effectively. Seven of our Board members have current or former experience of being a carer.

If you are interested in joining the Board please contact us. The trustees are elected by our members and ultimately responsible for the policy and direction of the Carers Centre.

Co-Chair: Kate Register
Kate joined the Board in 2016 and became joint Vice-Chair in 2018. She now runs a charitable enterprise providing leadership and management support to charities/projects and teams in UK, Africa and Asia. Prior to setting this up she worked in the NHS and local government for 20 years in a variety of management roles. She has been a young carer and a parent carer as well as caring for elderly parents.

Co-Chair: Briony Broome
Briony joined the Board in 2015 and became joint Vice-Chair in 2018. She was formerly the Director of Sheffield Churches Council for Community Care and has been a trustee with a number of organisations supporting vulnerable people. She was a founder member of Sheffield Faith Forum and sat on the Local Strategic Partnership for 5 years.
Briony is also a carer.

Treasurer: Les Griffiths
Les joined the Board and became Treasurer in 2017. He is a retired Chartered Accountant and the first 30 years of his career was spent with one of the major international firms of Chartered Accountants in Sheffield where he specialised in providing accounting and financial advice to SMEs (small-to-medium enterprises) and small charities in the Sheffield area. His last 14 years, before retirement, were spent as Financial Controller at a SME based in Sheffield.

Trustee: Mandy Forrest:
Mandy joined the Board in 2016 and became Chair of the Carers Centre in 2018. She worked in the NHS and voluntary sector for 37 years and is currently a Lay Member on NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group’s Governing Body plus a Governor at Sheffield Teaching Hospital. She also works for the Universities of Sheffield and Durham on health research issues. She was a full time carer for her father, who had dementia, until he died, and now supports her mother

Trustee: Angela Barney
Angela joined the Board in 2019. She currently works for the Ministry of Justice Tribunals Service and is a Governor with Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust. From 2008 to 2014 she cared for her mother who had dementia. From 1999 until 2009 she was a Non-Executive Director of Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust, combining this with managing a small local charity and chairing and sitting on various voluntary sector boards in Derbyshire and the East Midlands.

Trustee: Flora Jeferzade
Flora joined the board in 2019. She is a Senior Human Resources and Organisational Development Advisor at Sheffield Hallam University. Flora worked for some 15 years in the voluntary sector in Sheffield, so has great knowledge and understanding of the support provided by a wide range of organisation. It was during her time working in the sector that Flora became aware of the challenges faced by carers and the enormous value that they add to the community.

Trustee: Angela Rowland
Angela was co-opted to the Board in 2013 and became a Trustee in 2018. She is a qualified social worker and has worked in Sheffield hospitals and the community, with older people, children, families, and people with disabilities. Angela also worked on projects to develop extra care housing schemes and as a commissioner of services was the City Council lead for carers. She was a part-time carer for her father and is a part-time carer for her mother. Angela is also a volunteers for the Carers Centre.

Trustee: Amanda Stocks
Amanda joined the Board in 2018. Following a career in private sector business and marketing, she has worked in the public sector for 15 years as an employee and specialist consultant. Her career has included roles in Local Government, the NHS and Dept of Health responsible for commissioning and communications and her specialist field of Social Marketing (insight-led behaviour change). Amanda was a child carer for her siblings and continues in a care role for her elderly parents.

Trustee: Shiv Bhurtun
Shiv joined the Board in 2018 and is a registered General Nurse with a wide range of experience in Housing, Joint Commissioning, Adult Social Care and Local Authority Communities. He is currently supporting strategic partnership work and transformation programmes across Health and Local Authority Communities to build on integrated approaches to a resilient, strong, healthier and safer communities. Shiv has a keen interest in innovative practices to support carers across the age range.

Trustee: Dr Lorna Warren
Lorna joined the Board in 1996. She is an academic in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield where her research has focused in particular on the experiences of older people, and caring has been central to this focus. She has also supervised a number of doctoral students whose studies, collectively, have explored the experiences of a range of carers. Lorna has been a carer.