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Our people

Our Trust is run by a small, highly committed team, led by the Chief Executive who reports to our Board of Trustees.

Senior Team

Professor Clare Cable has been our Chief Executive since 2024. Clare was Chief Executive and Nurse Director of the Queen’s Nursing Institute for Scotland for over a decade and previously, Policy Adviser to the Royal College of Nursing.

Chief Executive

Clare Cable

Chief Executive

Clare has been Chief Executive and Nurse Director of the Queen’s Nursing Institute for Scotland for over a decade and previously, Policy Adviser to the Royal College of Nursing. She is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholar and has been Honorary Professor at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh since 2016. In 2023 she was made Visiting Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Clare is a strategic nurse leader with significant expertise in charity governance, finance, leadership development and policy. Her overarching vision is to unleash the creativity of nurses to be catalysts for positive change in the health and well-being of communities.

Business Operations and Events Manager

Zoe Amasanti

Business Operations and Events Manager

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Trustees

The Burdett Trust for Nursing is governed by a board of voluntary trustees. The trustees direct the funding policy of the charity and make all grant decisions. They bring specialist knowledge from a wide range of backgrounds and all are closely involved in all aspects of the Trust’s work.

Alan Gibbs

Chairman of Trustees

Audrey Ardern-Jones OBE

Trustee

Dame Christine Beasley

Trustee

Andrew Gibbs

Trustee

Evy Hambro

Trustee

Professor Dame Donna Kinnair

Trustee

Governance principles

We are committed to the development of trustees individually and collectively, enabling generative dialogue.

We seek to underpin good decision making with a foundation of excellent governance – balancing risk and opportunity.

Good governance enables us to deliver our mission sustainably.