The Leaders







 

Helen Hunter

Likely to find her: Singing ‘You’re My World’ by Cilla Black at our dementia choir

We Love: Her passion for community, can do attitude and 90’s throwback vocabulary        

Claim to fame:  Ability to blink constantly while being interviewed!

 

 

Ben Evans

Likely to find him: Convincing the next generation that engineering is cool or hanging with his kids.

We Love: His creativity and energy, his PHENOMENAL use of superlatives and his ability to sleep during the day.

Claim to fame: He is part of the Bloodhound SSC design team, who are hoping to break the land speed record by travelling at 1000mph.

 

Andy Hunter

Likely to find him: Cycling, running; getting ridiculously excited about food & drink with friends; getting lost in composing music & prayer.

We love: That he likes to push boundaries of the norm.

Claim to fame: Played a gig with Grandmaster Flash in Miami. Now that’s stylin’! 

Rachelle Bright

Likely to find her: Challenging stigma and misinformation often associated with mental ill health -  changing hearts and minds, one person at a time.

We Love: Her ability to create a multi-coloured, multi-purpose and multi-page rota for all rotas!

Claim to fame: Met Sylvester Stallone (he’s shorter than you think!)

Chris Matthews

Likely to find him: searching out and enjoying good coffee; trying to write poetry; learning to be still.

We love: that he's been a part of Linden for decades and is still as invested as ever.

Claim to fame: was once chauffeur driven to and from Buckingham Palace to hang out with Queen Elizabeth II (along with a few thousand others!). 

Tim Brown

Likely to find him: Passing on his wisdom to medical students or working in his garden.

We Love:   His loyalty to Leeds FC, the way he says ‘becoss’ and his surgical skills. Rarely in the history of gastroenterointestinolology has so much been owed by so many to so few ... or one man.

Claim to fame: He was the youngest man to go down the Amazon in a coracle (not true)