Meet The Team

The Trustees

FACT wants to work closely with multidisciplinary teams to improve the patient's cancer journey. As trustees, our experience and qualifications to do this are as follows:

	Joanne Smith Chief Executive & Founder Qualified to Masters level in Business Management, and a Business Development Manager in... Read more...
	Judith Williamson Business & Finance Director Has spent over 20 years in the Banking Sector within the Finance Department.  Having lost friends to... Read more...
	Lesley Shaw RGN Practice, Policy & Clinical Director A registered general nurse for 20 years who as a result of her own experience of breast... Read more...
	Christine Schofield Trustee I have known Joanne for over 20 years and she is my oldest and closest friend. We have gone ... Read more...
	Helen Hughes Trustee I have been involved with FACT since it started in 2008. After working with FACT in numerous... Read more...
	Paul Hopkinson Trustee I was delighted to be approached to serve as a trustee for FACT and had no hesitation ... Read more...
	Peter Armstrong Trustee t gives me great pleasure and pride to be a Trustee of FACT... Read more...
	Alan Redman Trustee I was also delighted when I was recently approached by Joanne Smith to become a Trustee of FACT... Read more...
	Chris Cook I was also delighted when I was recently approached by Joanne Smith to become a Trustee of FACT... Read more...

Our Patrons

	Dave Anderson My name is Dave Anderson and I was elected for the MP for Blaydon Constituency in Tyne and Wear in 2005. I am honoured to have been asked to become a patron of FACT. Read more...
	Kim Inglis Hi, I'm Kim Inglis a freelance journalist. I spent fifteen years as a news and programme presenter with ITV, across the North East and Cumbria with the occasional network appearance thrown in. Read more...
	Kevin Clark When I was asked to be a patron of FACT I immediately accepted for two reasons: professional and personal. Read more...
	Denise Robertson Each week I hear from families whose lives have been affected by cancer in someone they love. I feel for them as my family has been affected too, more than once, and I know the devastation such a diagnosis can bring. Read more...
	John Beresford I played professional football for 18 years, mainly playing for Newcastle United in the great Kevin Keegan’s team ... Read more...