Board of Trustees

As a Charity we have a committed Board of Trustees who play a vital role in guiding and supporting our mission. Their key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, managing finances and approving budgets, monitoring performance, identifying risks, providing guidance, ensuring ethical operations and contributing to strategic planning.   

Chris Frederick | Remuneration & People Committee Member

Chris is a global citizen and mental health advocate with extensive lived experience, driving initiatives that integrate personal insights into transformative mental health care practices. 

Mike Slade | Finance & Risk Committee Member

Mike leads a University of Nottingham research group focussed on supporting mental health recovery. 

Steven Michael | Chair of Board of Trustees

Steven has over 35 years’ experience of working in the field of mental health. He has been a CEO in the NHS and in recent years has occupied a range of non executive and trustee roles at local and national levels. He is passionate about the role creativity can play in supporting wellbeing. 

Ian Black | Deputy Chair of Board of Trustees/Chair Finance & Risk Committee

Ian has built an extensive executive career across finance, banking, insurance, and investment, with recent roles as chairman and independent director, holding Approved Person and Controlled Function responsibilities.

He has chaired board committees in audit, remuneration, and investment, and worked across sectors including retail, mutuals, publishing, and fundraising. Ian has also chaired national charities such as Scope and Family Fund and served on the board of NHS Providers. For 15 years, he has volunteered in NHS transport, reflecting his commitment to public service.

Sue Barton | Remuneration & People Committee Member

Sue originally qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist and specialised with adults with acquired communication difficulties. She has over 35 years of NHS experience in a variety of leadership, operational and improvement roles in mental health and community service. She is currently the Deputy Director of Strategy, Inclusion and Change in a Foundation Trust and has qualifications and experience in health and social care leadership with an emphasis on quality improvement and change. 

Christopher Munt MBE

I have a professional background in advocacy, health, social care, and social work academia. My own lived experience of mental illness has provided me with unique insights, that would be beyond my reach as a professional to fully comprehend. 

I am founder of Authentic Voices: a coalition of people committed to elevating the status and contribution of Lived Experience in Mental Health.  I am also an author and researcher in studies that focus on matters from the perspective of patients/service users

I am motivated by my belief that community, informality, and belonging are key to meaningful personal empowerment, and recovery.

Imroc is the kind of organisation that is diligent, compelling and has amazing people doing crucial work. I am very much looking forwarded to adding even more value. 

Steven Stericker

I am a social work practitioner, former foster carer and senior leader with over 30 years’ experience across adult and children’s services. Over the course of my career, I have worked in local government, young people's mental health services and higher education, developing expertise in governance, risk management, service improvement and quality assurance.

I have led strategic initiatives to improve outcomes for vulnerable young people, and a career highlight has been establishing an Ofsted-regulated community interest company, providing accommodation and guidance for 16–18-year-old young people, including for young people seeking asylum. My work has involved close collaboration with people with lived experience, and a range of partners to ensure the highest standards of care, safeguarding, accountability, and compliance.

I am committed to improving life chances for young people and adults, with a strong belief in the power of education, relationship-based care, and peer support to transform futures. The values that drive Imroc are the very values that have informed my practice as a social worker and drew me to become a trustee with the organisation.

I love chocolate digestives, coffee and pottering in the garden (and not forgetting my family).

Ian Callaghan 

Ian has been a supporter of Imroc for many years and is delighted to have the opportunity to continue to contribute to its work into the future. Ian brings his lived experience of severe mental illness to all his work, in the Lived Experience Insights team at Rethink Mental Illness and as a Mental Health for All Fellow with NIHR ARC North Thames, where his research interest is Lived Experience Leadership. In the past Ian has held involvement positions with NHS England and the RCPsych. Ian is pleased to be a judge for the National Lived Experience Awards and in his spare time enjoys playing the cello in a local orchestra.

Sara Traynor

TBC