About
Tony Lau Walker CBE
Chair of Trustee Board of VTCT Foundation
Tony was the Chief Executive Officer of Eastleigh College, a further education college in Hampshire with 10,000 learners and chaired the Windsor Group of Colleges to deliver Train to Gain. He was awarded a CBE for excellence in education in 2013. He was a member of the Commission for Employment Skills UK until 2016 in which he oversaw the development of recognised qualifications across the four home nations; and an HM Inspector for Further Education.
As a trustee of VTCT Foundation from 2016 he has supported numerous appearance charities to enable better client provision and sustainable development. He wishes to support more charities to achieve sustainable development in the new post-pandemic era and better client support in a digital age.
Rosanna Preston
Rosanna Preston was founding Trustee and Chair of the VTCT Foundation before stepping down as Chair in 2019.. She is now retired but was Chief Executive of a number of charities including the Cleft Lip and Palate Association. Rosanna has a particular interest in patient involvement in research and service delivery and brings her experience of running patient led charities to the Board. She also has experience of grant making from her time as Chief Executive of the Musicians Benevolent Fund (now called Help Musicians). She is particularly keen to support small charities in building their capacity to support their members and in finding new ways to deliver services in the post Covid world.
Professor Emerita Nichola Rumsey OBE
Professor Emerita Nichola Rumsey OBE is a Health Psychologist. She retired from her role as Co-Director of the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) at the UWE, Bristol in 2017. She is currently working as a Consultant on a range of UK based and international projects.
Angela Cross-Durrant
Angela has extensive senior experience in assessing tenders for funding Research and Development in Further Education (FE), and in assessing applications for Awards in the Health & Care Sectors. Her career began in hospital administration before she moved to Adult and Further Education, where her roles included being an examiner and an HE moderator. Subsequently she held a senior position in policy and planning in Her Majesty’s Inspectorate at Ofsted. She is also an experienced assessor ofFE Governance and Management and currently serves on her second FE College Corporation Board where she chairs two key committees.
Angela has had a longstanding, independent role in assessing applications from care/nursing homes for the Gold Standard Framework Award in End of Life Care (EoLC). Additionally, she has served on several NHS EoLC Strategy Committees, which have included many years at the London Ambulance Service and continue at Kingston Hospital.
Steve Twigg
Steve is a basic scientist working on craniofacial genetics at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford and is Associate Professor of developmental genetics. He has a degree in Applied Biology from the University of Bath and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
He has been a member of the Clinical Genetics Group at Oxford since 1996 studying craniofacial development, with a focus on craniosynostosis. Current research interests combine translation of human genetic findings with increasing understanding of skull development.
Jon Pleat
Jon is a plastic, burns and reconstructive surgeon who works in Bristol. He is a past lead for the service, one of the busiest in the UK, and has a particular interest in wound healing, scarring and outcome measures. His two research degrees focused on cardiovascular molecular biology and the proteomics of humans scarring.
He has worked in the charitable sector for 20 years both as Scientific Lead for Restore, who focus on burn and scarring research, and as Chair of The Skin Cancer Research Fund.