Patrons, trustees and benefactors
The Daisy Appeal has many patrons and trustees who generously donate their time and talents to help us save local lives. Their involvement greatly increases awareness of the Daisy Appeal and helps us improve the survival chances of thousands of local people each year.
Our Board of Trustees is responsible for overseeing the management of the Daisy Appeal to ensure it is effective in doing the job that it was set up to do. Our trustees bring a wide range of skills and experience and play a key role in the running of the charity.
Patrons
John Godber
Rt Hon David Davis MP
Rt Hon Alan Johnson
Trustees
Mr T S E Boanas
Professor P E Dyer
Pete Dyer is an Emeritus Professor of Physics with the University of Hull.
He has been a Trustee of the Daisy Appeal since 2010.
Miss K M Guest
Karen Guest is partner/owner of Guest and Philips Jewellers in Saturday Market, Beverley.
She has been a Trustee with the Daisy Appeal Charity since 2013.
Mr D C Heuck
David is a chartered accountant who trained with Hodgson Harris in Hull.
He worked as the Finance Director at Heron Foods for 32 years before retiring in 2019, two years after the company was sold to a major plc. He is currently a director of a family property holding and development company.
Mrs V Heuck
Viccy Heuck lectured for 14 years at the University of Hull Business School on their MBA and undergraduate degree programmes. She is now a retired Chartered Certified Accountant and has served on the Charity’s Trustee Board since 2016.
She is also a Trustee of the Joseph Rand Benevolent Fund.
Mr S Howey
Syd Howey is a retired medical physicist having previously been Head of Medical Physics and Nuclear Medicine at the Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
His Trusteeships include Osprey and the Daisy Appeal, the latter since 2010.
Professor M J Lind
Professor Mike Lind was appointed Foundation Professor of Oncology at the University of Hull in 1998. His major area of interest is in thoracic malignancy. He chairs the NCIN lung site specific clinical reference group. He is also the NCRI lead for malignant thymoma.
He has been a Trustee of the Daisy Appeal since 2000.
Dr C A Rowland-Hill
Chris Rowland-Hill is currently a Consultant Neuroradiologist with the Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. He was Clinical Director of Radiology in Hull for 10 years and was also the Past President of the British Society of Neuroradiologists.
He has been a Trustee of the Daisy Appeal since 2009.
Professor N D Stafford OBE
Nick Stafford OBE is Emeritus Professor of Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Hull.
He has been the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Daisy Appeal Charity since its inception in 2000.