Trustees Week 4-8 November 2024

8^th November 2024

In UK National Trustees’ Week (4-8 November 2024), DRCS embraces the theme of ‘celebrating, supporting and inspiring trustees’ by announcing the appointment of two new members of its board of trustees. In joining DRCS, Janet Henderson and Menna Yarwood become part of a national trustee workforce comprising an estimated one million people, who voluntarily play an essential role in governing charities across the UK, engaging in teamwork to make effective decisions.

Janet brings a wealth of past professional experience located in health service and ministry settings, already having worked as a lead trustee overseeing clinical governance in a hospice. Following the 2007 Foot and Mouth outbreak in rural North Yorkshire, she was involved in projects providing support to the rural communities affected by this devastating disease. Interestingly, this aligns well to the origins of DRCS providing support to rural communities in Derbyshire.

Menna also has extensive life experience having lived and worked in different parts of the UK and North America. Her clinical experience spans several decades, being located in Higher Education, the Voluntary Sector and the NHS and she can trace her initial involvement with DRCS back to the 1990s. As a practitioner she worked in a number of health service settings culminating in the role of clinical lead at DRCS until her retirement in 2022. We look forward to continuing our dialogue, this time in the role of trustee.

We welcome Janet and Menna in a week when the government has announced a new focus of the nation’s mental health as the Mental Health Reform Act makes its way into the House of Lords, aiming to better support patients and clients, treat them more humanely and address disparities across communities.

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