Our Board of Trustees
The team of volunteers who focus on the goals of the Charity and ensure that it is run sustainably.
Elmore’s Board has a range of knowledge, skills, and backgrounds, giving us valuable insights and support.
Luke Bowles
Trustee
Luke is a former Early Intervention in Psychosis patient with lived experience of bipolar disorder and addiction. Having been a recipient of Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership care, Luke has joined the Board at Elmore to offer insight from a service user perspective. Luke works for Consalia as a Business Development Manager, and has also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Royal Mail Group.
Liz Challis
Trustee and Quality Sub-Committee Chair
Liz has worked as a clinical psychologist in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust since qualifying in 2017. She is currently part of the Emergency Department Psychiatric Service at the John Radcliffe and Horton General Hospitals, and prior to that worked in Child and Adolescent mental health. Pre-qualifying Liz worked in mental health community teams and inpatient settings, primarily with children and young people, as well as a specialist personality disorder service.
Gareth Kenworthy
Treasurer and Finance Sub-Committee Chair
Gareth is a CIPFA qualified accountant with 25 years of experience in NHS finance. Having joined the NHS through the graduate training scheme, he first had experience of mental health services working for Oxfordshire’s NHS provider, progressing to Director of Finance in his 12 years at the Trust. He then went on to become the Chief Finance Officer of NHS Oxfordshire CCG. During that time he led on the negotiation of the Oxfordshire Outcome Based Mental Health Contract and helped to establish the partnership. He has been instrumental in the set-up of Oxfordshire’s pooled budget arrangements with Oxfordshire County Council and serves on the joint management group which included oversight of mental health services.
Dr Joe McManners
Trustee
Joe is an NHS GP in Oxford, the Clinical Director of a Primary Care Network, and leading a collaboration of Oxford City Primary Care Networks. He served as the Clinical Chair of Oxfordshire CCG for four years then as an NHS England Clinical Advisor.
Originally from County Durham, Joe has lived in Oxford since 2003, joining the Manor Surgery in Headington in 2006. He is now Senior Partner at the surgery, a highly-rated large practice, and leads on pioneering work with older and vulnerable patients.
Joe has a decade of experience as an Oxford City Councillor with executive roles for housing.
Dr Shona Morrison
Trustee
Shona has a long academic research career and has worked in Australia and the UK. Shona developed and evaluated an enhanced arrest referral programme designed to assess drug, alcohol, mental health and learning difficulties of those entering custody. She has co-created Victims First, a flexible process and system for supporting victims providing tailor-made support to match each victim’s needs.
In 2021, Shona moved to the Open University to teach on the policing programme within the Faculty of Business and Law. Her research interests involve violence against women and girls (VAWG) and child criminal exploitation (CCE).
Vanessa Odlin
Vice Chair and Trustee
Vanessa is a Managing Director in Central and Northwest London NHS Trust. Her portfolio includes CAMHS and mental health rehabilitation over five boroughs, physical and mental health in Hillingdon, and a variety of community services in Camden, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Harrow, and Ealing. She trained as a mental health nurse, qualifying in 2002, and has worked various roles in the NHS ever since, including inthe Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership.
Mike Rowley
Trustee
Mike is on the autism spectrum and a former user of mental health services in Oxford. He is also an experienced elected councillor having represented Barton and Sandhills on Oxford City Council since 2010 and served as Sheriff of Oxford. As a City Council cabinet member he helped to form what is now the Oxfordshire Homeless Movement, bringing in mental health and other organisations as well as people with lived experience to develop a holistic response to homelessness. He remains interested in how poor housing affects mental health and vice versa, and what kind of interventions can best help people suffering multiple disadvantage.
Becky Willis
Trustee
Becky is a programme manager at Oxford City Council. Her varied career with housing associations and local authorities has included frontline and leadership roles in housing management, tenancy sustainment, community development, software implementation and, most recently, organisational development. For the last two years she has managed the Council's People Strategy Programme, focused on developing organisational capability and culture to promote innovation and collaboration and to meet the challenges of changing demands and ways of working. She is interested in how decision-makers in organisations and systems can learn from those closest to problems and has worked with Marmalade to test approaches to measuring the impact of services and projects.
Pauline Scully
Trustee
Pauline has been an Oxfordshire NHS leader for over 40 years before retiring in 2019. A registered mental health nurse since 1988, Pauline worked in several roles within the NHS, including Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Service Director for Children and Young People, and Service Director for Adult Mental Health Services, all at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Nadia Wager
Trustee
Nadia is Director of the None in Three Centre and a Professor in Psychology at Teeside University. She has a long history of evaluating community interventions for victims of serious crimes and conducting research, for example, for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on the quantification of online-facilitated child sexual abuse/exploitation and a national survey of the Police exploring their experiences of and perspectives on the disruption and prevention of child sexual abuse and exploitation.