Our Ambassadors

Carole Stone
Former Managing Director of the online opinion polling company YouGovStone Limited and founder of The Carole Stone Foundation to support her belief that connecting people, exchange ideas and building friendships around the world is essential to help make a fairer society.

Dr Garry Savin
Dr Garry Savin qualified as a GP in Enfield North London where he developed a passionate interest in preventative medicine. He helped to develop Nuffield Hospitals Health Screening and became their National Clinical Advisor to Health Screening for 44 Wellness Centres and 244 Health Screening doctors.
He joined “Preventicum” as Medical Director in February 2006. After 15 years there, he moved to a practice in Harley Street where he has developed “Lumen Advanced Health Assessments”.

Brian Daniels
Brian is the author of 22 plays including the award winning ‘Homeward Bound’ and ‘Fighting for Life’. His plays have been performed nationally and internationally including off-Broadway in New York. The plays have all been adapted to be performed live, or by podcast or streamed on-line. Subjects include early and late onset dementia, end of life and palliative care, historic child abuse and grooming, the holocaust, lymphoedema, discrimination, suicide prevention and corporate manslaughter.

Sarah Hampton
Sarah is the secretary of the Friends of Beeston Station, a voluntary group set up to make improvements to the station, including to access for disabled people. She is a registered as a station adopter with East Midlands Railway. In early March 2020 she spoke at a Community Rail Network conference about the importance of purposeful work in retirement to avoid loneliness and associated problems.
In her spare time, Sarah sews, reads, writes letters, walks, swims and goes to the gym.
Sarah is married to Brian Fairchild and they have two adult children.

Brian Fairchild
During the summer Brian is a regular volunteer at Trent Bridge international and domestic competition cricket matches.
Brian is married to Sarah Hampton and they have two adult children.

Samantha Wathen

Bertie Aspinall
Now Bertie builds social impact startups- with an education focus – at CanDo, alongside the founder of Tide Business Bank.

Emma Dillon
Emma is a positive, innovative and motivated mental health nurse educator with a passion for personal and community wellbeing. She is committed to promoting mental health for all and determined to enable social change and suicide prevention. Emma practiced as a Registered Mental health Nurse for 26 years, primarily in community and urgent care pathways.Emma also leads on student Mental Health Frist Aid education at the University of Northampton and has developed a social enterprise; UONMHFA, who are a team of MHFA Instructors. This dedicated team are made up of registered nursing academics, HR representatives and other FHES staff who all have a passion for wellbeing. UONMHFA have trained over 1200 student nurses, 400 PNA’s, 200 FHES students, assisted with training of 300 UON staff, local businesses, charities, schools and have a public MHFA online shop.
She was recognised for her positive approach to mental health with a nomination to attend the Queens Garden party in 2019.

Nicola Weaver
Outside of this she is a lifelong keen amateur violin player and active fan of live jazz and classical music.

Claire Ashley
Her mission is to improve working conditions and mental wellbeing of medical professionals, as well as helping and supporting those that are struggling with stress, burnout, work fatigue and career indecision. She has a podcast, Do Yourself No Harm, which has just launched with the aim of providing advice and guidance to healthcare workers on how to live and work well in the pressurised working environment that is the NHS currently. She also runs a subscription and membership for healthcare professionals by the same name.
Dr Ashley lives in North Somerset with her stunt man husband. Together, the couple have 2 children and a never-ending house renovation project.

Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury
Nick Shaftesbury graduated from the London Business School with a Masters in Business Administration in 2008. After an early career as a DJ and music promoter in New York City, he returned to the UK in 2005 and has since overseen the restoration of his family home, St Giles House, alongside his wife Dinah. The project has won several awards, including the 2015 Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Award for Building Conservation and the Historic England Angel Award, Best Rescue of a Historic Building or Site. The work has also been documented in a book entitled, ‘The Rebirth of an English Country House’, which he co-wrote with Tim Knox, the current Director of the Royal Collection. They are the first Shaftesbury’s for 50 years to live in St Giles House.
Nick is also passionate about running and climbing and has competed in many ultra-marathons to raise awareness around disability and mental health. He is an ambassador for the spinal cord injury charity Wings For Life, a patron for Parallel London and vice-patron of the disability charity, Livability. He is also the current Chairman of the Talbot Village Trust, which is one of Dorset’s leading benefactors, supporting causes in Christchurch, Bournemouth, Poole, East Dorset and the Isle of Purbeck.

Olivia Donnelly

Keith Baddams
As a living example of what the NHS does best, he feels grateful to be given the chance to support NHS staff in any way he can.
During the first lockdown he made and donated a few stained glass panels which reflected that particular moment in time, one of which is hung in Dorchester Hospital and another is to be auctioned in support of Doctors in Distress.
He has over 40 years experience in the restoration of historic lead glazed windows and is interested in bringing arts into Hospitals to create a more pleasant environment for staff, patients and visitors alike.

Henriette Lang
Henriette has a passion for changing the stigma around mental ill-health and preventing suicides. She works for This Can Happen, which is a workplace mental health company supporting organisations with their employee mental health. She is a trained Samaritan listener, Mental Health First Aider and author of the Mindset Triangle Book which is all about how to balance your life when living with mental ill-health. She is studying BSc Psychology part time through the Open University. The NHS has helped Henriette many times through IVF treatment, to childbirth to supporting her after the death of her own child. As someone who cares for her own children living with dyslexia and autism, she strongly believes in caring for the carer. She also supports her partner who lives with bipolar. By showing compassion, empathy and care for each other Henriette believes we can prevent mental illness reaching crisis points is key and prevent suicides.

Dinah Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury
She has an interest in suicide prevention given the high rates in the veterinary profession. She is a trustee of ‘Drug Science’, an ambassador for Doctors in Distress and a patron of ‘WVS’ (Worldwide Veterinary Service).