Team Tom

Rebecca has 25 years’ experience as CEO at fast-growing charities. Previously CEO at Alzheimer’s Research UK, she grew it from a small local organisation with two staff and half a million pounds per annum to a national organisation of 70 staff and £14 million turnover, with research and fundraising regions UK wide. She was Chief Exec at children’s counselling charity Blue Smile and, alongside being CEO at Tom’s Trust, is Charity Director at The Evelyn Trust (a Cambridgeshire grant-giving organisation) and a trustee at Ormiston Families, East Anglia’s leading family support charity. Find out more about Rebecca here.

Debs and Andrew founded Tom’s Trust in memory of their son Tom Whiteley in 2011. Tom sadly died in 2010 at the age of nine, after a seven-month battle with a brain tumour. Little support was given to their family from the point of diagnosis and through the devastating seven-month battle, and they grew determined that no other family should go through what they had experienced alone. Debs uses her lived experience to drive forward Tom’s Trust. Prior to Tom’s Trust Debs worked for 14 years in the oil industry co-ordinating shipping logistics. She now runs our outreach programme.

Kirsty brings over two decades of experience in Fundraising and Marketing having worked for Wallace Cancer Care and Maggie’s for over 10 years. She most recently worked in the leadership team at Cambridge Arts Theatre.

Lynda is an experienced senior clinical psychologist. She has worked in the NHS for 20 years, developing new services, and in private practice for eight.  During this time, she has worked across various physical health specialities including neurology, palliative care and oncology.

 

Amy is the Tom’s Trust assistant psychologist and family liaison coordinator, her role focuses on providing wider support for families and helping them to access the information and services they need from the point of diagnosis and beyond. She also contributes to research and service development, helping the charity to widen the support available, involving and supporting our children and families at every step of the way.

Amy has a degree in psychology with neuroscience and has experience working in the neurodevelopmental assessment service, with paediatric diabetes teams and trauma informed working with young people. Amy has an interest in developmental and health psychology and aspires to qualify as a psychologist in her future.