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Welcome to our Council of Governors

There are six staff governors, 17 public governors from across the Bay and seven partner governors. The Governors provide a vital link between the communities and groups they serve and the Trust Board, which has the statutory responsibility for the management of the organisation.

They also have a number of statutory roles, including providing their view on our forward planning, appointing and deciding the terms of office of the Chair and other Non Executive Directors of the Board, approving the appointment of the Chief Executive, appointing or removing our auditors and receiving our annual accounts, auditor's reports and annual report.

To contact a Governor, simply click on their name and email them.  Alternatively you can write to them via our membership office.

For more information on Council of Governors meetings, please click here.

Public governors

Lancaster, Craven and Wyre Public Constituency

Kathleen Knipe	Vacant seat	Jim Wood	Janet Hamid

John Hunter	Mike Porter	Philip Hodge

South Lakeland and Eden Public Constituency

Vacant seat	Maria Radice	Prof. Paul Brown	John Kaye

Roy Slack	Vacant seat

*To contact John Kaye, please write to him via our Foundation Trust office.

Barrow and Copeland Public Constituency

Derek Lyon	Shahnaz Asghar	Ray Short	Stan Hill

Staff governors

Karen Halbert	Graeme Nicholson	Gilbert Ozuzu	Kay Hyland

Glyn Davies	Sharon Granville

Appointed partner governors

Prof. John Goodacre	Mike Holder	Peter Clarke	Cllr Anne Burns
University of Liverpool	NHS North Lancs.	NHS Cumbria	Cumbria County Council

Ian Soane	Sarah Fishwick	Denise Partington
Vol. Sector, Cumbria	Lancashire County Council	Vol. Sector, Lancashire