Our Trustees
Paul Baker - Chair
Paul was born in Surrey, moved to Worcestershire shortly before taking early retirement and has now returned to Surrey. The last 23 years of his working career was based in a pensions actuarial consultancy, he qualified as a Fellow of his professional institute, he has been responsible for some high profile clients, providing advice to their pension trustee bodies.
Paul has also had direct involvement in assessing potential beneficiaries and the subsequent allocating of monies provided through a historic trust.
Lindsay Roach
Lindsey is first and foremost a mother of twins of whom she is very proud.
Lindsay was born and lived in Oxford for 37 years before she moved with her family to Worcester due to her husband’s work. She is now widowed and lives in Pershore with her beloved animals, who keep her on her toes.
She is a qualified teacher and trained SENCO with a degree in special needs and disability. Lindsay presently works for Evesham Volunteer Centre as a Community Builder, which she loves. In this role her job is to support the local community. Lindsay sits on the steering committee for Evesham Dementia Action Alliance (EDAA) whose aim is to make Evesham a more dementia friendly town.
Lindsay is also a Dementia Champion which means she can present workshops on how to support people in the community who may be living with dementia.
Lindsay enjoys arts and crafts and a good read, mostly thrillers and detective stories. She loves a good debate on many topics. She adores the New Forest and spent many happy days there as a child and adult
Lisa Bennet - HR
Lisa was born and brought up in Warwickshire moving to Evesham in 2000.
After 11 years with M&S working in various roles, Lisa’s career continued to be varied, and has included roles as Head of Human Resources at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Head of HR and Operations within education and Chief Operating Officer of a successful local hospitality and retail business.
Teresa Cerra - Fundraising
Originally from Dundee in Scotland Teresa worked as a nurse for 12 years in a hospital caring for children and adults with special needs.
Married in 1992 she relocated to Evesham. After raising 2 sons, Teresa decided to offer her services by volunteering for various charities plus supporting her children’s schools and football team.
Teresa became a School Play Leader which led her to become a Teaching Assistant in 3 different local primary schools.
Her next career move, Community Champion for Morrisons, enabled her to support many local worthy groups and charities. She is now actively engaged in promoting and supporting EDMHSS.
In her spare time Teresa enjoys cooking for family and friends, hosts a Wednesday coffee morning supporting people through loneliness in Evesham. If time permits Teresa likes taking long walks and socialising with friends.
Laurie Whiting – Safeguarding
Laurie was born and educated locally but lived and taught in Salisbury, Bolton and Wigan, moving back to Evesham with her husband and young daughter in 1998.
Laurie gained a BE.d (Hons) through Cardiff University and a Masters degree from Bangor University.
After 38 years teaching in a variety of Local Authority schools both Mainstream and Specialist Provision, Laurie retired as Deputy Head teacher of Bidford Primary.
As Laurie was a leading teacher on Inclusion for Bolton, Wigan and Warwickshire, she later worked for The National College for West Midlands developing inclusive practice in a variety of schools. Laurie was on the governing body of 2 different schools with responsibilities for Inclusion, Safeguarding and Looked After Children.
Having 3 members of her family dealing with the changes to their lives due to dementia, the thought of supporting the charity in her spare time was a natural decision for her to make.
A great charity, great people and always a warm caring welcome