Our Trustees

He retired early from a long career in management in the NHS and has been involved in the third sector for over 10 years.  As Chief Executive in the NHS, he developed a special interest in public health and is determined about tackling health and well-being inequalities including poverty.

He brings charity experience from previous local chairing roles - Community Action Norfolk; Horizon Health; more recently - Break. He has also been involved in supporting councillors to maintain the standards expected in public life and brings lots of knowledge around governance as well as a passion about the voices and rights of older people. Explaining his desire to join, he said, “I have skin in the game now and want to be involved to help.”

Originally from Scotland, he has been in Norfolk for 50 years and enjoys his local family who, like him, are staunch Canaries fans.

Joanna Hannam has lived in Norwich with her husband and two daughters for some 30 years and joined the Board of Age UK Norwich in May 2017. Her professional career has primarily been in health and local government where she held responsibilities for leading and developing services in health improvement, consultation and community engagement, PR and Customer Services. Prior to the family’s move to Norwich, Joanna spent 10 years at Westminster working as a parliamentary assistant and, later, for a national environmental organisation.  Joanna’s community engagement work to support service change in health and social care gave her a long standing interest in the needs and concerns of older people - and carers in particular - which heralded her commitment to support the work of Age UK Norwich.

Alongside her trusteeship, Joanna also serves as a Non Executive Director of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

Anna joins the Board of Age UK Norwich in December 2022.  Born in London where she started her accountancy career in the city, she moved to rural Norfolk 30 years ago and now lives on the edge of Norwich.  Anna was a Director in the NHS for 20 years of her career locally in the Ambulance Service and in commissioning, planning and performance with Norfolk PCT.  In the latter stages of her career Anna undertook consultancy roles as a Finance Director in the NHS in Bromley and Berkshire and in Finance with City and Hackney PCT.  In those roles Anna  worked with partners to shape local services.

Anna is a member of the Audit Committee of the Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office and the Audit and Risk Committee for Saffron Housing.  Anna enjoys walking, dancing and exercise, playing walking netball, looking after her two year old grandson and spending time with family.

Pete is an ex-newspaper journalist, having worked for more than 25 years for the Eastern Daily Press, where he was also for more than a decade the lead rep for the National Union of Journalists, involved in pay talks and helping individuals with employment issues. He began volunteering with Age UK Norwich in late 2014, just before retiring, and - wanting to understand the whole organisation - has had hands-on experience in the day centre, backroom office support, client surveys, befriending, plus helping older people with information and benefits forms. Currently, he works a shift on the reception desk, where he is often able to see our clients make their first contact with the organisation. That’s a relatively unusual approach for a trustee, but he hopes it enables him to bring a different perspective to the Board which complements that of members with more management and professional health or social services backgrounds. He also tries to provide a media perspective, and works to support the communications team on press releases and copy writing. Pete recently became a Buddhist, after taking courses at Norwich Buddhist Centre for four years. He links that to the vital need for older people, like himself, to stay curious and stay connected.  He says that what first attracted him to Age UK Norwich was its pragmatism, “a sense that being nice isn’t enough… you have to be effective”.   

Kate has been a trustee of Age UK Norwich for the past 10 years. She has been vice chair and chair of trustees for nine of these years. Prior to retirement and moving to Norwich in 2008, Kate was a planner and leader of NHS services in the south of England where she worked closely with local authorities and other partners to improve and develop services to meet the needs of local people.  She had a particular interest in helping those with mental health and learning difficulties, as well as older people, and a lot of her work involved attempts to integrate social and health care. Kate says she has particularly enjoyed being able to apply some of that experience to local services - where it’s sometimes easier to make things happen quickly.  “What I like about Age UK is that it runs a whole range of activities engaging with local people about what is important to them.”  Kate studied politics as a mature student at the London School of Economics.  “Norwich is a very ‘liveable’ place - a good city in terms of facilities to be an older person, and we want to build on that.”

Originally from the North East of England, Sheila Glenn has called Seething, near Norwich, home for the past 23 years with her husband. A mother of two adult daughters, Sheila brings a deep commitment to social justice, health, and healthy aging to her appointment to the Board of Age UK Norwich. Her extensive professional background spans healthcare delivery, commissioning, and higher education. This includes senior Director positions at the NNUH and the Integrated Care Board for Norfolk and Waveney, where she spearheaded service planning, development, health improvement, community engagement, consultation, and the commissioning of planned care and cancer services. Sheila also possesses significant expertise in large-scale change, coaching, quality improvement, and leadership and organisational development.

Outside of her professional life and trusteeship, Sheila enjoys her Christian faith, gardening, exploring the natural world, and participating in a local Viking-Saxon re-enactment society.

Paul joined the Board of Trustees of Age UK Norwich in 2024, bringing extensive experience in leadership, change management, and organisational development across both the private and not-for-profit sectors.

As founder of Populi Consulting, Paul works with businesses to improve performance through people, focusing on leadership, culture, and sustainable growth. His approach is grounded in honesty, integrity, and a deep belief that lasting change starts with understanding people and relationships.

Paul has a long career in the agriculture and amenity industries, supporting innovation and business transformation at the board and senior-leadership level. His work often bridges commercial thinking with community impact, helping organisations adapt, grow, and lead with purpose.

He joined Age UK Norwich out of a strong personal commitment to community wellbeing and to supporting older people to live independently and with dignity. As a Trustee, Paul takes a particular interest in strategy, business improvement, and leadership development within the charity.

Outside of work, Paul enjoys fitness, writing, and playing golf (badly).

George joined the Board of Trustees of Age UK Norwich in October 2025.

He is a Pharmacist by background who studied at the University of East Anglia before completing his initial post registration pharmacy training in Cambridgeshire. He developed a specialist interest in cardiovascular disease and has spent a significant portion of his career so far contributing to the provision of clinical trials and education. 

Returning to Norfolk, George became involved with teaching at UEA whilst continuing to practice as a Pharmacist at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. In 2024, he was awarded a British Heart Foundation PhD studentship to investigate novel mechanisms of aortic ageing with Dr Derek Warren at UEA. 

Passionate about considering the ageing process holistically, going beyond his science background, George is keen to ensure Age UK Norwich can support the needs of the population now and for generations to come.

He is also an avid runner and can often be found venturing round the UEA lake and partakes in Run Norwich each year. 

Anna has lived in Norfolk for 40 years and is married with two adult children and five grandchildren. She holds an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering and began her career as a Transport Planner.

Now retired, Anna went on to become a Local Authority Chief Executive, working across several councils throughout the country. She developed a strong focus on building partnerships and fostering relationships across administrative boundaries, as well as between the public and private sectors. She is keen to bring this experience to support the work of the charity.

In recent years, Anna has built a portfolio career as a Non-Executive Director. She served on the board of Norwich City Services Ltd from 2020 to 2023, supporting its establishment as a company, and more recently was a Board Trustee for Leeway Domestic Abuse Charity from 2019 to 2025.

Michael was born in Norwich and after living in London and Manchester returned to live in the city more than thirty years ago where he and his wife, Judith brought up their two daughters. He spent the majority of his career at King’s College London teaching Environmental Health and specialising in health and safety. Whie at King’s he conducted funded research for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and for the Food Standards Agency (FSA). His research for HSE included, for example, work on the mechanisms of slip and trip accidents and the barriers to prevention. For FSA, he conducted policy development research on the risk of Listeriosis in the over 60’s – a group particularly at risk of the disease.

Before his university career, he worked as an Environmental Health Officer for several local authorities and as a safety consultant for Norfolk County Council.

Michael is very keen to support Age UK Norwich in its vital work in supporting older people and celebrating their contribution to our society. He is particularly interested in the issues that he has seen himself in environmental health practice such as housing conditions, safety and food born disease.

He was born into a family of Norwich City supporters.

Chris is a senior NHS leader with extensive experience in quality governance, patient safety, and system assurance. He is currently Deputy Director of Quality and Patient Safety at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, where he leads strategic oversight of patient safety, clinical effectiveness, risk management, mortality, and regulatory compliance.

Chris is a dual-registered practitioner, with qualifications in Nursing and Social Work, bringing a unique breadth of clinical and professional insight to board-level roles. He is experienced in strategic decision-making across complex organisations and systems and implemented a number a of new national initiatives, including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

Chris has held senior positions within integrated care systems and clinical commissioning within Norfolk and Waveney. Chris has a collaborative and inclusive leadership style, building strong partnerships across health, social care, and the voluntary sector and is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.