Trustees

Our Trustees bring to the Board a wide range of business, financial and charitable expertise based on successful careers in many different fields and they give their time to this work without payment.

Doina Cornell – Chair — Doina Cornell – Chair
Joined the Board of Trustees in 2020. Doina has lived in Cam since 2000. She is leader of Stroud District Council, ward councillor for Dursley since 2012, and manages her family's publishing business Cornell Sailing.

Paul Rummer – Treasurer — Paul Rummer – Treasurer
Joined the Board of Trustees in 2017. Resident of Dursley since 1992. Recently retired as Principal at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, having worked there in various roles since 1985.

Paul Denney — Paul Denney
Joined the Board of Trustees in 2016. Resident of Cam since 1996. Paul is a local councillor representing Cam on Stroud District Council and currently head of research and development for Snow Business International in Stroud.

Jo Easey — Jo Easey
Joined the Board of Trustees in 2019. Jo has lived in Cam for 21 years and was involved with GL11 at the beginning where she volunteered and worked at the community project. For the past 15 years she has worked with the Vale Health Visiting Team as a Community Nursery Nurse.

Elaine Hynd — Elaine Hynd
Joined the Board of Trustees in 2017. Moved to Horsley in 1994. Worked for BP as economist and Deloittes, as Training Manager, before setting up her own training and consultancy business in 1987.

Gemma Ind — Gemma Ind
Joined GL11 as a Community Advisor in 2019. Gemma has lived in Uley and Dursley for over 30 years. She went to school locally and works at Archway Dental Practice as an Oral Health Educator. She has links with local schools and preschools and has attended various activities at GL11 for the last 12 years.

Jonquil Richards — Jonquil Richards
Joined the Board of Trustees in 2021. Having grown up locally I have a connection to local people, spending most of my career working with people struggling with instability, mental health and addiction. I joined GL11 last April as a volunteer, becoming co-ordinator for the Listening Ear Service, helping with the vaccinations team and Friday food bags. I look forward to working with the other trustees to steer GL11 in meeting the needs of our local community.

Patrons

We warmly welcome our new patrons to the GL11 Community Hub community.

Dr Simon Opher — Dr Simon Opher
Simon is the Clinical Lead for Social Prescribing at NHS Gloucestershire CCG and says: “Social prescribing helps people who don’t necessarily need medical care, with GPs referring to community support and activities to help improve the individual’s wellbeing. It supports people with issues such as coping with caring responsibilities, loneliness and low level mental health issues through community-based activities which can have an immensely positive impact on people’s lives. GL11 Community Hub is doing great work with some of the most vulnerable people in our area, helping people to get involved, make friends and find dignity and purpose, I would like to see a hub like this in every community.’

David Drew