Administration

Patron

We are very honoured that HRH The Duchess of Gloucester GCVO has been our Patron since 1975. Her Royal Highness is patron of a large number of organisations, many of which have medical, educational or welfare connections. She has regularly attended fundraising events that the Trust arranges and maintains a close interest in the Trust’s work and that of the researchers that we fund.

Managing Trustees

	The Hon. Peter Benson, LVO, FCA, is chairman of a trends research company, acts as consultant to a London-based international investment house and is non-executive director of Spectrum Interactive. He was previously a senior partner at the chartered accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers for many years. He is also much involved with the world of theatre. Peter has been a Trustee and Hon. Treasurer of St. Peter’s Trust since August 2000 and is Chairman of the Finance Committee.
	Prof. John Cunningham, CVO, is Professor of Nephrology at UCL Medical School and Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust, London. He also holds the posts of Physician to HM The Queen and Head of the Medical Household. His education in medicine was at Cambridge, Oxford, London and the USA. He is an active physician-scientist with clinical and research interests covering a wide range of kidney and related disorders. He has been a Trustee since November 2003.
	Mr. Roger Henderson, QC was a scholar at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1964 with a first class degree in law. He took silk in 1980 at the age of 36 and has a varied legal practice but is best known in the field of public law, local government and public inquiries. He was chairman of the St Peter’s Special Committee, formed to negotiate the relocation of the St Peter’s Group of Hospitals to the Middlesex Hospital site in 1992. He has been a Trustee since February 1993.
	Mr. David Hunter has extensive experience of global securities markets and is a director of Smith & Williamson Investment Management. He has been a Trustee since July 1994 and is a member of the Trust’s Finance Committee.
	Mrs. Kate Jemmett was a very active volunteer for the Trust for several years before becoming a Trustee in February 2001. She has direct experience of what is involved in coping with kidney disease, as one of her daughters had a disorder which led to the need for a kidney transplant. This operation was successfully carried out at the St Peter’s Hospitals. It was very much a family affair as her other daughter was the donor.
	The Hon. Hector McDonnell is the younger son of the late Earl of Antrim, who was the first Chairman of St Peter’s Trust. Hector is an acclaimed artist whose work is exhibited regularly. He is also a writer and an active promoter of the cultural history of Ireland. He has been a vital member of the Trust for over 30 years, having become a Trustee in 1977.
	Prof. Guy Neild was the first holder of the St Peter’s Trust Chair of Nephrology, inaugurated in 1991 at the Institute of Urology & Nephrology, UCL Medical School. He retired from this post in 2003 but continues as professor at UCL, pursuing his research interests in the causes of renal failure in young adults, disorders associated with genetic anomalies, chronic kidney disease and renal transplantation. He has been a Trustee since March 1992.
	Dr. Caroline Parks has now retired, but worked at UCH and St Marks Hospitals before working for many years as a consultant radiologist at the St Peter’s Hospitals and consequently has extensive knowledge of urinary tract disorders and their diagnosis and treatment, particularly in relation to the use of ultrasound and associated techniques. She became a Trustee in April 2007.
	Mr. David Seligman spent 25 years at SG Warburg and its successor firms before forming Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity Select in 2002. The firm manages fund-of-funds targeting the Western European lower mid-market buy-out segment. He became a Trustee in October 1996 and is a member of the Trust’s Finance Committee.
	Mrs Janet Wolfinden was the administrator of the Institute of Urology & Nephrology for 19 years from 1974. She then transferred to the central administration of UCL Medical School when the Institute merged with UCL and, at the time of her retirement in 2004, she held the post of Director of Administration of the Medical School. She became a Trustee in June 2005.
	Mr Dan Wood FRCS Urol, is a Consultant Urologist in Adolescent and Reconstructive Surgery at the University College Hospitals, London. Dan received funding for his PhD from St Peter's Trust. He is currently designing research projects looking at bladder dysfunction and the possibility of a project relating to novel methods of testing interventions in bladder dysfunction.
	Prof. Christopher Woodhouse trained in urology at the St. Peter's Hospitals and Institute of Urology & Nephrology, London, and held the post of Senior Lecturer/Hon. Consultant and then Reader in Urology at the Institute until he became Professor of Adolescent Urology at UCL in 2006. He is a Consultant Urologist at UCL Hospitals NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden Hospital. He is also Chairman of the British Journal of Urology International. His interests are in the treatment of cancer, reconstructive surgery, and the subsequent management in later life of patients treated for congenital abnormalities of the urinary tract. He has been a Trustee since July 1994.
	Mr. Peter Worth retired from his post as Consultant Urologist at The Middlesex Hospital, London, after serving the hospital and the Institute of Urology & Nephrology for many years. He undertook his postgraduate urology training at The Middlesex, St. Peter’s and St. Mary’s Hospitals and had his first contact with the Trust in 1977, when he was awarded a major grant for research on incontinence. He has been a Trustee since February 2001 and Chairman since 2002. He also serves on our Medical Advisory Committee, which reviews grant applications and makes recommendations to the Trustees.

Members

The Managing Trustees are also all Members of the Trust.

Chief Administrator & Secretary

Mrs Sue Maridaki

Administrative Assistant

Miss Katy Henderson

A charity can be formed as a charitable trust, a charitable association or a charitable company. St Peter’s Trust comes into that last category. It is a private company, established as a Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a Share Capital. The number of members is limited to fifty and admittance to membership of the Trust is by invitation of the managing Trustees. The Trust has been established for the purposes expressed in its Memorandum of Association, and the original subscribers to that Memorandum and any other people that the Managing Trustees admit to membership shall be Members of the Trust by written consent. The liability of Members is limited. A Managing Trustee need not be a Member of the Trust.

The Managing Trustees of St Peter’s Trust hold meetings quarterly and the Finance Committee also meets shortly before each Trustees’ meeting. The Annual General Meeting is held in the late autumn - see Attend Events page for details.

A grant round is usually held once a year, and the applications are assessed by a Medical Advisory Committee which has a membership largely composed of medical specialists not otherwise associated with the Trust. Opinions are also obtained from external referees who are experts in their specialist fields.


If a Trustee is connected in any way to a research application submitted to the MAC, that individual is excluded from the decisions on that project made on behalf of the Trust.

The Trust is a member of the Association of Medical Research Charities and is guided by its advice and recommendations.