Ian Lush has been Chief Executive of Imperial Health Charity since December 2014, having previously been the Chief Executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) for 11 years. Following an MA in music at the University of York, he started his career as a viola-player with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, subsequently moving into arts management, including as Marketing Director of the Barbican Centre, and Managing Director of the London Mozart Players for eight years before joining the AHF.

Ian was Lead Governor of Great Ormond Street Hospital Foundation Trust from 2012-15 and served on its strategy and redevelopment boards.  He founded and directed ‘Discovering Places’, one of the major projects of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and was Deputy Chair of the Heritage Alliance from 2005-13.   Apart from work and his family, Ian’s main recreations revolve around sport, playing Middlesex League tennis and going to watch football, cricket, tennis and athletics, and he is also a keen cook. Ian was awarded an OBE in the 2021 New Year’s Honours list for charitable services to the NHS.

Kirsty oversees the North Wales NHS Charity, Awyr Las Blue Sky and charitable partnerships for the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

Kirsty taught English in Taiwan, Colombia and Spain and held a voluntary position with a charity supporting street children in Colombia before returning to the UK to take on an internship and then a permanent role with the Charities Advisory Trust. Kirsty went on to become the Fundraiser for Wales for the Alzheimers Society and then the Major Gifts Manager for Bangor University before joining the Health Board in North Wales as the Head of Fundraising for the North Wales NHS Charity, Awyr Las.

A former trustee of Students Supporting Street Kids, Kirsty recently became Director of Macsen and Partners Ltd, which provides consultancy services for voluntary sector organisations.

Kirsty is a mother of three and enjoys walking in Snowdonia with her family in her spare time.

Tim is currently Charities and Partnerships Manager for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. He has worked in the voluntary sector for over 30 years for organisations involved in young people, the arts, social inclusion, health, and medicine. At YHA he was instrumental in securing £17 million in funding to develop Do it 4 Real summer camps for 10-16 year olds, which had a real impact on the thousands of young people who took part. Tim became involved in NHS charities in 2009 and has worked for Derby and Burton Hospitals Charity, leading it through the pandemic and Leicester Hospitals Charity, where he established a strong track record of successful appeals for all areas of the hospital’s work.

Tim had an earlier career in television, media and theatre as an actor, writer and theatre producer, working with actors such as Sylvester McCoy, Barbara Windsor and Ian Lavender. Having left the theatre he realised the theatre never quite left him, so in his spare time he writes and directs pantomimes for the South Darley Players, and occasionally directs other amateur theatre groups.  He plays guitar and writes music and likes to go fell-walking or cycling in the Peak District whenever he can.

He is a Member of the Institute of Fundraising, and was Chair of the Association of NHS Charities Fundraising Mutual Interest Group for five years.

Jayne has spent more than 30 years in human resources and organisational development, working in executive roles with the Boots Company, Whitbread, Royal Mail, Punch Taverns and Barratt Developments. Until June 2015 she was director of people and organisation development at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Jayne runs executive coaching consultancy Calabash where she supports executives and organisations in culture change, engagement and transformation in a wide variety of private and public sector businesses. Until June 2021 she was a non-executive director at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, and a trustee at St John Ambulance.

Jayne was appointed Non-Executive at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston in June 2019 before taking on the role of Interim Chair in April 2021.

Jayne holds an MSc in human resource development from Nottingham Trent University, a certificate in coaching from Henley Management College and is a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development.

Chris is currently  the CEO of the national animal charity Blue Cross Charity. Prior to this, Chris joined the Royal Free Charity in the autumn of 2010 as its first Chief Executive. As the Chief Executive of the Royal Free Charity, Chris oversaw the strategic change of the organisation from a grant making body to direct service provider, merging other organisations into the Charity and growing the income by 300% to over £40m. Together they were the primary reasons why he was identified as one of the five rising stars of the third sector by Charity Times in 2014.

Previously he was the Director of Business Development at the Fire Fighters Charity where he grew the charity from £3m turnover to over £9m. He was also responsible for the rebranding of the organisation, the restructuring of its 2000 strong volunteer network and a major expansion of its beneficiary base. The work he and his team undertook resulted in them being voted the “UK’s Fundraising Team of the Year” in 2008/09 by the Third Sector, as well as being nominated as the best charity brand development. Chris was also voted one of the top two fundraisers in the UK in 2005/06 by the Charity Times magazine.

Chris has also worked for the National Farmers’ Union as both their Marketing Manager and Business Development Manager. He was educated in both the UK and the USA and completed his MBA in 2001. Chris was awarded an MBE in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours list for services to the NHS. 

Danny Mortimer has been Chief Executive of NHS Employers since November 2014. NHS Employers is the voice of employers across the English NHS, and leads work relating to workforce policy and practice. He also serves as deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, of which NHS Employers is part.

Danny first worked in healthcare as a porter and a CSV care assistant before becoming a management trainee in Stoke-on-Trent. He worked in the NHS in Bath and Brighton before taking up his first director post in West Sussex. He then worked in Executive roles in hospitals in Hertfordshire and Nottingham before joining NHS Employers.

Danny is a Chartered Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Trustee of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion and the NHS Retirement Fellowship and chairs the Cavendish Coalition of social care and health organisations.

Jane has been Director of NHS Lothian Charity since 2011, having previously served as the Director of Fundraising at King’s College Hospital. Following a BA in Music at the University of York and a postgrad at the Royal College of Music, she followed a career combining teaching music, playing the French horn semi-professionally and arts management, before joining the charity sector as a Concerts Manager at Sargent Cancer Care for Children. Jane took on the role of Director of Fundraising for King’s in 2004, after experiencing life-saving care at that very same hospital for her daughter.

Jane provides vision and leadership to NHS Lothian Charity, and is responsible for setting strategic direction and leading cross-functional teams to deliver the Charity’s long-term strategy and operational plans. The charity is considered best in class in Scotland, and leads the way nationally on the delivery of both arts in health and greenspace programmes, volunteering and staff wellbeing. In 2018 Jane’s experience of leading a large endowment led to her involvement in OSCR’s published guidance on trustee investment, and she was part of the Scottish Government review of NHS Charity governance.

At NHS Lothian Charity she set down the foundation blocks for the award-winning fundraising team, and whilst at King’s College Hospital Charity, she led several large capital fundraising appeals, and through early involvement in the Association of NHS Charities from the mid-2000s supported the first round of membership development and growth, including establishing the Fundraising Mutual Interest Group.

Aside from work, Jane has two teenage children, a musician husband and a Labrador; she enjoys cooking, weight lifting and hill-walking.

Antony Tiernan is an award-winning Director of Communications who served over 20 years in the NHS, including at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and London Ambulance Service, where he also led the London Ambulance Charity. 

Antony also served as a Director of Communications at NHS England, leading on a range of major initiatives, including the NHS’s 70th and 75th anniversaries in 2018 and 2023 respectively. 

Antony has worked in a number of national charities including Breakthrough Breast Cancer. 

In 2018, he was named by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations as one of the UK’s top 70 PR people and is included in PR Week’s annual ‘Power List’. 

Antony is a keen runner, loves to travel and enjoys reading.

Amarjit Singh (Jeet) is an audit partner in the Financial Services Practice at EY leading its Extended Assurance offerings to Wealth & Asset Management firms. In addition, Jeet has recently been appointment Blockchain Assurance Leader for EMEIA. In the past Jeet has held governance roles in EY as Chair of the EMEIA Partner [Governance] Forum as well as sitting on the Global Governance Council of EY.

He is a passionate supporter of Diversity and Inclusion, having been named one of the top 100 BAME Leaders in business in 2018. He continues to sit on the various D&I committees at EY whilst supporting D&I efforts across the City. Previously Jeet was a trustee of the Winnicott Foundation, a charity supporting the neonatal units in the Imperial NHS Trust, a cause close to his heart with his daughter being a premmie on the unit where he saw first hand the dedication and service that NHS Staff give every day for us all.

Jeet is excited about joining NHS Charities Together as it continues to support the NHS during its most challenging time in history.