Charity No. 1078183
Our Trustees
Gill Rouse - Chair
Gill Rouse is a co-founder of LINC and has been chair of the Trustees since we attained charitable status in 1999.
She has worked in the haematology department since 1979 and has guided LINC from the beginning and been instrumental in organising the Charity Concerts featuring Josae Carreras & Bryn Terfel (2003) Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (2005) and Lesley Garrett (2007). From January 2009 she will devote her time to LINC when she retires from clinical practice.
Terry Hopley
Terry Hopley began his career as a journalist and before the age of 30 became Group Editor in Chief of Greater London and Essex Newspapers Ltd. He then switched careers completely and became involved in the cruise industry, starting from humble beginnings with Fred Olsen Lines before going on to become Commodore and Chairman of Fourwinds Cruises, then the most successful cruise ship charter company in the UK. He retired nearly 20 years ago and now divides his time between Willoughby House, one of Cheltenham’s leading hotels, which he owns, and his second home in Queensland, Australia. He has been a LINC Trustee since November 2007.
Sally Pullen
Sally is delighted to be involved with LINC as it is an organisation, led by physicians, who work closely with the patients and so fully understand their needs. Formerly she has been a county magistrate, a Non-Executive Director and Mental Health Manager with East Gloucestershire NHS Trust, a member of the House Committee of the Sue Ryder Home at Leckhampton Court and secretary of the Cotswold Branch of the NSPCC.
Currently, she is a Governor of the Barnwood House Trust, a Parish Councillor, secretary of the Friends of Gloucester Three Choirs Festival and has been a member of WRVS meals-on-wheels scheme for nearly thirty years. This service was established locally by her mother, so there is an element of being genetically programmed in that respect. Her husband is a local farmer and she has two married children and four dear young grandchildren. Sally has always believed that trying to help the local community is an important and worthwhile thing to do - and it is good fun.
Sally became a Trustee of LINC in April 2007.
Geoff Fox
Having completed twenty eight years as a Consultant Surgeon in Gloucestershire, based on Cheltenham General Hospital, Geoff was very pleased to accept an invitation to join LINC's Fund Raising Committee, and later to become a Trustee. He has been a Rotarian for thirty years, and President of the Club to which he belongs on three occasions. In addition, he has been a Public Governor for Cheltenham on The Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the past four years.
Adam Rye
Adam Rye was appointed consultant haematologist at Cheltenham General Hospital in 2003 and is now part of the county wide haematology team. Married with two small children, he bacame a LINC Trustee shorly after his arrival and helps liaise between patients and the charity. Through his clinical work he is aware of people who might benefit from the many services LINC offers.
Stephan Bates
Stephan has worked in the National Health Service for more than 35 years as a Biomedical Scientist. He currently works for Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust as the Countywide Heamatology ans Blood Transfusion Department Manager. He has a particular interest in transfusion medicine and is a member of a number of national groups related to transfusion. He and his family have been involved with LINC since its inception in 1998. This has included being part of teams that have raised money for the LINC Out Patient Suite, purchase of the Flow Cytometer and the Robert Dalton Memorial Fund. He has been a memeber of the LNC Fundraising Committee and has worked as a Trustee since 1999.
Adrian Bamford
I graduated from Imperial College with a Microbiology Degree but took the family route and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. I joined the management team at Cheltenham General Hospital as their accountant in 1988 and have stayed within the hospital ever since.
In the mid 1990s I decided to broaden my horizons and move into management. I completed the Regional Senior Management Qualification and started out as the manager of the Oncology Centre. Sine then my remit has gradually broadened and I am now a Divisional Director for Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust.
I have won the Gloucester Marathon 6 times and still take my sport seriously representing Team GB in Duathlon (Cycling & Running) as an 'age grouper' (50-55 year old).
Greg Smith
Greg Smith is Principal of Gloucestershire College, a role which he has undertaken for the last twelve years. The successful and rapidly growing college has a turnover of £34milliion and employs in excess of 1200 staff.
As the inaugural chair of the Gloucestershire Heritage Urban Regeneration Company (GHURC), he heads one of the biggest regeneration schemes in the country. The GHURC is tasked with achieving £1bn investment in seven key regeneration sites, in its ten year lifetime. Five years into its programme, planned investment already exceeds half a billion pounds.
In 2009 Greg was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire for his services to Further Education and Regeneration.
