Our Board of Trustees

Age UK Portsmouth is led by the Board of Trustees, who meet every two months. The role of the Board of Trustees is to agree strategy and provide overall governance and leadership for Age UK Portsmouth, ensuring that the organisation achieves its charitable objectives, abides by its core values and complies with both charity law and company law.

Tim Gamester

Chair of the Board of Trustees

Tim has worked at local law firm Biscoes Solicitors since 2004, when he joined as a Paralegal. He subsequently undertook his training contract with the firm and qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and has been a Partner / Director since 2010.

Tim is the Head of the Private Client Team and the Money Laundering regulation Officer for the firm.

Elizabeth Fellows

I am a Portsmouth girl through and through, although was born all the way out in Fareham! I have lived here all my life except for the few years when I was at medical school. I have been a GP in the city for 28 years until I retired last year.

I have also helped look after the population of the city working in NHS management. This role has seen me working for specific groups of people including vulnerable adults and our veterans and armed forces personnel and families.

I have worked very closely with our colleagues in the city council to bring Health and Care closer together to make it all more simple for everyone. Since I have retired I have been travelling a lot including spending time cruising around the waterways of England on my canal boat. I also have 7 grandchildren and help out with them at times.

Roger Batterbury KJ, OSCS

Roger was born, raised and educated in Portsmouth; he’s the father of two grown-up children, and he still lives and volunteers in Portsmouth.

Roger worked as a Registered Mental Health Nurse since he qualified in 1991. In his long career he managed local mental health and substance services for Solent NHS Trust. He is currently retired and no longer a Registered Mental Health Nurse. He also worked in Learning Disability Services before qualifying as a nurse. He has all those many years’ experiences of health and care services as a provider and managing the services at a senior level. Prior to working in the NHS, he worked for a provider focussed on teaching in the workplace about being hearing impaired aware and taught in many businesses and schools on this topic.

Roger has always had a passion for Equality and Diversity and chaired a Trust group for many years and was a Trustee of a local Race Equality Network Organisation for many years. He has always ensured service users and carers have a voice in interviews and new innovative teams and services. He has been part of a design team on patient leaflets and worked for the Department of Health on a national project.

In 2012 he applied and was successfully interviewed for the Interim Healthwatch Portsmouth Board, and he has since been elected to the Healthwatch Portsmouth Advisory Board, and currently he has been nominated by his peers as the Chairperson. Healthwatch is the statutory patient voice organisation.

Currently he is a Trustee of Rebound Carers' Support Group also a Trustee of The League of Friends of St Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth plus he’s the Chair of his GP Surgery Public Participation Group (PPG) and the Chair of the Patient Group at Portsmouth’s Urgent Treatment and Surgical Centre. Roger is also a Trustee of a domestic violence charity. Roger is also the Patient Group Chair with South Central Ambulance Services (SCAS). Roger applied for and was interviewed for the role of Trustee at Age UK Portsmouth and joined the Board in the summer of 2025.

Natalie Lenton

Proven cross-industry experience. Strategic values driven leader. As a mature student, Natalie gained her TEFL Diploma from the University of Cambridge.

Over 16 years spent working for the Police. Excellent understanding of both UK & Foreign Legislation.

Over seven years' experience and ongoing in Commerce. Currently working as 'Partnership Lead' for the London Care Brokerage 'CareTilt.'

Lived experience: Social Care Aspect, Supporting Aging Family Members, Demographic.