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About us

We invest in those who have great ideas and methods for improving the health and well-being of older people and in making the connections which can help them to flourish.  You can find out more about our strategic aims and objectives here, along with details of our people (staff, committee members and trustees) and our history.

Our aims, vision and strategic priorities

  • We’re committed to applying our resources to inspiring and enabling academic researchers (from across the disciplinary range) and health and social care professionals to apply their knowledge and skills to:
  • improving the quality of life, functional capacity and well-being for older people now, or
  • creating the context for change in the future: preventing, delaying or reducing future health and social care requirements.

We also want to play our part in informing and influencing the collective understanding of  “what works” and enabling community organisations to develop innovative, evidence-informed and best practice ways of delivering care and support for older people and drive systemic change needed to secure a healthier later life for us all.

Download our 2020-2025 Strategic Framework and Themes (.pdf)

Our people

The Trust is run by a staff team of five, led by the Executive Director who reports to the Board of Trustees. There are currently eleven Board members who can each serve up to two four year terms of office and meet four times per year. Reporting to the Board are three Committees: Research Grants Committee, Community Grants Committee and Investment Committee. Trustee committee members are assisted by a number of independent advisers who have professional expertise appropriate to the Committee they serve. Click on the relevant category below to see Board and Committee members and on their images for career biographies.
Staff
Trustees
Patron
Investment Committee
Research Grants Committee
Community Grants Committee

Susan Kay

Executive Director

Sarah Allport

Head of Communities and Governance

Dr Sanjay Thakrar

Head of Research Policy and Awards

Oliver Soutar

Grants Officer

Gemma Dasent

Graduate intern

Professor Alison Petch OBE (Chair)

Trustee

Mike Bellamy

Trustee
Investment Committee

Professor Bernard Conway

Trustee
Chair of Research Grants Committee

Professor Deborah Dunn-Walters

Trustee

Professor Tom Kirkwood CBE FMedSci

Trustee

James Lorigan

Trustee
Chair of Community Grants Committee

Professor Stuart Parker

Trustee
Research Grants Committee

John Ransford CBE

Trustee

Keith Shepherd

Trustee
Chair of Investment Committee

Dominic Jones

Trustee
Community Grants Committee

Eren Osman

Trustee

Mrs Kay Glendinning MBE

Patron

Susan Kay

Executive Director

Mike Bellamy

Trustee
Investment Committee

Keith Shepherd

Trustee
Chair of Investment Committee

Helen Christie

Investment Committee

Andrew Pitt

Investment Committee

Aidan Kearney

Investment Committee

Susan Kay

Executive Director

Professor Bernard Conway

Trustee
Chair of Research Grants Committee

Professor Stuart Parker

Trustee
Research Grants Committee

Professor Andrew Clegg

Research Grants Committee

Dr Sian Henson

Research Grants Committee

Professor Karen Lowton

Research Grants Committee

Dr Garry Tew

Research Grants Committee

Dr Kate Walters

Research Grants Committee

Professor John Potter

Research Grants Committee

Professor Andrew Devitt

Research Grants Committee

Susan Kay

Executive Director

James Lorigan

Trustee
Chair of Community Grants Committee

Toyin Miller

Community Grants Committee

Dominic Jones

Trustee
Community Grants Committee

Vacancies

TRUSTEE

Closing date: 19 February, 2021 at noon

 In the autumn of 2020, we launched our new five-year plan: “Investing for Impact”.  It was back in the 1980s that the leadership of the Trust recognised that shifting demographics were accelerating a need for investment in a high-quality research base to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of ageing and the delivery of innovation in the health and social care of older people.  Since then, we have been funding some of the best of the UK’s academic and clinical researchers to do just that. As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, this need will be even greater and the opportunities are immense to make real systemic change.  We plan to play our part in three broad ways:

 

  • investing in ideas
  • connecting research and practice and
  • fostering flourishing communities.

Board vacancy

As a result of a forthcoming retirement, we have a vacancy on our Board.  We welcome applications for the position of Trustee from candidates with expertise in one of the following areas, consistent with the themes of our new plan:

 

  • Academic research leaders with relevant interest and expertise in the planning and design of the built environment, or
  • Academic research leaders with relevant interest and expertise in the development of assistive technology, or
  • Academic research leaders in the understanding of the underlying mechanisms of ageing and age-related disease, or
  • Clinical research leaders in geriatric medicine or the allied health professions.

With a new Chair, a recently re-confirmed commitment to making £25M available over the next five years in support of our strategic aims, and having completed an operational transformation plan, it’s an exciting time to be joining us. We’re looking for people with the commitment, vision and expertise to contribute to writing the next chapter in our story.  Do please download the role and person specification and go to our website to find out more about us. 

How to apply

If you think that this could be you, please send a no more than two page covering letter setting out how you meet the requirements and email it, together with your CV, to Susan Kay, Executive Director susan.kay@dunhillmedical.org.uk by 19 February 2021 at noon.  If you would like to arrange an information conversation about the role and requirements, please contact Susan at this email address.

Applications are invited from across the UK.  Board and Committee meetings are held quarterly (the time commitment for a Board member who is also a Committee member is around 8-12 days per year). While our office base is in central London, we are currently holding meetings virtually.

We are keen to ensure that the composition of our Board reflects our commitment to equality and diversity and therefore encourage applications from under-represented groups. Although the role is unpaid, reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed, as will expenses incurred as a result of loss of earnings or the need arrange cover for caring responsibilities, for example.

 

 

Reports

The Dunhill Medical Trust files its Trustees’ Report and Accounts with the Charity Commission for England and Wales and with Companies House. You can find a selection of the most recent here.

2019/20 Trustees' Annual Report, Accounts and Periodic Review
2018/19 Trustees' Report and Accounts
2017/18 Annual Trustees’ Report and Accounts
2016/17 Annual Review

Governance and policies

Anti bribery policy

Anti Bribery Policy

Charity Commission guidance states that “the Commission expects trustees to comply with the law on bribery and to implement good practice in accordance with their duty to protect the property and reputations of their charities”. The Bribery Act 2010 applies to individuals and ‘commercial organisations’; according to guidance from the Ministry of Justice, this includes charitable companies carrying out not-for-profit business. As such, The Charity Commission requires charities with income in excess of £1 million to have an anti-bribery policy statement.

Articles of Association

Our Articles of Association is the constitutional document which sets out our charitable objects and our governing regulations.

Business continuity plan

Business Continuity Plan

Community Grants Committee Code of Conduct

All members of the Community Grants Committee (Trustees, External Advisers and Executive Officers) must abide by the principles and procedures set out in the Dunhill Medical Trust’s Conflict of Interest Policy. It is, however, recognised that there are times when specific conflict of interest issues can arise in respect of grant applications and other grant-related matters that apply particularly to the Community Grants Committee. A code of conduct for dealing with these is therefore set out below as an appendix to the main Conflict of Interests policy.. In formulating this code, Charity Commission guidelines have been taken fully into consideration.

Complaints procedure

The Dunhill Medical Trust accepts that organisations and individuals should be able to make complaints regarding any unsatisfactory aspects of its working practice. The purpose of this procedure is to set out a process for dealing with complaints which is fair and aims to resolve issues which may arise as quickly and reasonably as possible. The Trust aims to ensure that its grant-making reflects best practice and reserves the right to determine how it carries out its work. It does, however, accept that from time to time issues might arise which may need to be resolved as a result of the Trust’s interaction with grant applicants and grant holders, and other external individuals and organisations.

Complaints Procedure

Conflict of interest policy

This policy is intended to be compatible with the provisions for dealing with conflicts of interest included in the Articles of Association of the Dunhill Medical Trust. In setting out the policy, the Trustees of the Dunhill Medical Trust acknowledge and accept the definition and principles in the Charity Commission document Conflicts of Interest: A Guide for Charity Trustees (CC29).

Conflict of Interest Policy 

Grant making policy

This Policy should be read in conjunction with the specific guidelines for the grant scheme for which you are applying.

Grant-making Policy

Equality and diversity policy

We value the diversity of our staff and stakeholders and the benefits that differences can bring. Accordingly, no eligible applicant, trustee, adviser, employee or external stakeholder should receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010.

Our equality and diversity policy is in three parts:

  • The Trust as a funder.
  • The Trust as an employer.
  • The Trust as a partner.

Equality and Diversity Policy 

Investment Committee Code of Conduct

All members of the Investment Committee (Trustees, External Advisers and Executive Officers) must abide by the principles and procedures set out in the Dunhill Medical Trust’s Conflict of Interest Policy. It is, however, recognised that there are times when specific conflict of interest issues can arise that apply particularly to the Investment Committee. This and other matters relating to the expected conduct of members is set out in the Committee’s Code of Conduct.

Investment policy

The Trust keeps its investment policy under regular review.  How our investments perform in terms of environment, social and governance matters is important to everyone and we monitor these using the available tools, in addition to financial performance.

Investment Policy

IT Security

Our IT security is important to us and we are Cyber Essentials accredited.

Information Security Policy

Compliance Policy 

Outsourcing and third party compliance Policy  

Information Handling Policy 

User and Password Management Policy

Acceptable Use Policy

Software Management Policy 

Mobile Computing and Remote Working Policy 

Privacy (data protection) policy and Privacy Notice

Privacy Policy

The Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) holds personal data about its employees, Trustees and Committee members, grant holders, suppliers and other individuals for a variety of purposes relating to delivery of its charitable objectives.   It seeks to adhere to the principles of data protection legislation, in particular to meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) effective May 2018.  This policy sets out how the Trust seeks to protect personal data and ensure that its staff, Trustees and external advisors understand the rules governing their use of personal data to which they have access in the course of their work.  In particular, this policy requires staff to ensure that the Executive Director is consulted before any significant new data processing activity is initiated to ensure that relevant compliance steps are addressed. Any breach, whether deliberate or through negligence, may lead to disciplinary action being taken.

View and download the full policy

Privacy Notice 

Our Privacy Notice is intended help our stakeholders to understand what information we collect about them, how we use it, how we protect any information that they give us and what choices they have.

Privacy notice (updated 20-05)

Research Grants Committee Code of Conduct

All members of the Research Grants Committee (Trustees, External Advisers and Executive Officers) must abide by the principles and procedures set out in the Dunhill Medical Trust’s Conflict of Interest Policy. It is, however, recognised that there are times when specific conflict of interest issues can arise in respect of grant applications and other grant-related matters that apply particularly to the Research Grants Committee. A code of conduct for dealing with these is therefore set out below as an appendix to the main Conflict of Interests policy. In formulating this code, Charity Commission guidelines and Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) guidelines have been taken fully into consideration.

Risk policy

The Trust maintains a risk register.  The Trust's Committees review the sections relevant to their work at each meeting, reporting to the Board any items which merit a change in risk status.  The executive keep it under constant review and the Board reviews it in detail annually.

Risk Policy

Research-related strategy, policies and governance documents

The following documents may be found in the How we support you section (Support and resources for academic and clinical researchers) of the website.

  • Research Funding Strategy
  • Open access policy
  • Specimen intellectual property agreement
  • Terms of award

Our history

Herbert E Dunhill died in November 1950 leaving £250,000 from his personal estate in Charitable Trust for medical research into tuberculosis, the cause of his death.

His niece, Mary Dunhill Lane, was appointed one of the original Trustees and it was largely her vision that drove the Charity until her death in 1988. Her daughter, Kay Glendinning, continued her work and was Executive Director from 1988 until April 2005 when she joined the Board in a non executive capacity.  In 2019, she stepped down as a Trustee and became the Trust’s first Patron.

Kay recalls returning to work from maternity leave to ask  if she could resume the job she had had on the shop floor in the family business since leaving school at 17.  She was greeted with a plan hatched by her mother to work in her Uncle Herbert’s expanding charity, directed to address herself to a toppling pile of paper and issued with an instruction to go out and learn about medicine!  This she did, finding herself very quickly in an operating theatre at Guy’s Hospital watching an operation on a baby.  She admits to fainting but never looking back. By the 1980s, the Trust was receiving an increasing number of grant applications related to issues associated with ageing and the care of older people. Although there was a clear case of unmet need, many applications could not be supported because they fell outside the original aims of the Trust. To rectify this, the Trust Deed was formally amended and in 1986 the Charity was renamed The Dunhill Medical Trust and was registered with the Charity Commission (Charity no. 294286). On 1st April 2011, The Dunhill Medical Trust also became a charitable company limited by guarantee (registered company number: 07472301; registered charity number: 1140372). The Trustees of the unincorporated charity became directors and members of the new company, in addition to remaining Trustees of the re-registered charity. Herbert’s initial bequest has been prudently and successfully invested and managed by the independent trust throughout these administrative changes and is now worth c. £145M today.

The Trust has no connection with the tobacco industry and complies fully with the Joint Protocol of Cancer Research and Universities UK on Tobacco Industry Funding to Universities (2004).

The original endowment was a personal bequest from Herbert Dunhill’s estate and not in the form of a donation or legacy from the family business*.  That bequest has been invested in a range of collective funds in the global investment markets ever since and no direct investments in tobacco have been made.  The Trustees and staff take their responsibilities regarding protection of the endowment and the ethical, social and governance aspects very seriously, so our investment policy remains under regular review and investment in “tobacco stocks” is a specific policy exclusion.

* Having its origins in the saddlery business, Alfred Dunhill developed into a successful luxury goods brand, responding first to the growing demand for automobiles at this time with car horns and lamps, leather overcoats, goggles, picnic sets, pipes, tobacco, lighters and timepieces and by the late 1970s, was offering a range of 3,500 luxury products.

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