Company
Vetlife
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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Hannah Jane SampsonDirector · since 2025
- Emma Margaret CallaghanDirector · since 2025
- Lynne GaskarthDirector · since 2024
- Dr Kelly Lisa Bowlt BlacklockDirector · since 2023
- Elizabeth Anne BartonDirector · since 2023
- Josephine Anne OakdenDirector · since 2022
- Robyn Jane LoweDirector · since 2022
- Dr Nichola Mandy Saunders HarrisDirector · since 2020
- John Rogers ChittyDirector · since 2020
- Dr Christopher Paul FreemanDirector · since 2020
- James Simon RussellDirector · since 2020
- Paul Graham HorwoodDirector · since 2018
- Derek ThorpeSecretary · since 1994
Previous officers 93
- Dr James William Glass 2022-2025 View profile
- Dr Kirstie Jane Pickles 2020-2025 View profile
- Danny Seiorse Chambers 2018-2024 View profile
- Dr Adrian Peter Nelson-Pratt 2017-2023 View profile
- Neil Christopher Smith 2017-2019 View profile
- Patricia Elizabeth Colville 2017-2020 View profile
- Sarah Joanna Brown 2017-2018 View profile
- Dr Elaine Rachel Garvican 2016-2020 View profile
- John Richard Killen 2016-2022 View profile
- Dr Nicholas Michael Coulson 2015-2016 View profile
- Mary Elizabeth Thomson 2015-2017 View profile
- Katie Elizabeth Moore 2015-2022 View profile
- Joanna Mary Dyer 2015-2016 View profile
- William Beaty Mavir 2015-2020 View profile
- Emily Jane Folwell 2014-2016 View profile
- Jade Melanie Statt 2014-2017 View profile
- Ian Graham Croy Dick 2014-2023 View profile
- Magdelena Anna Jaszczak 2013-2017 View profile
- Dr Rosie Jane Allister 2012-2017 View profile
- Geoffrey Peter Little 2011-2020 View profile
- John Anthony Moffitt 2010-2016 View profile
- David John Bee 2010-2015 View profile
- Nichola Jane Paull 2010-2015 View profile
- Dr Karen Marguerite Coumbe 2009-2015 View profile
- Nicholas Robert Marcus Short 2009-2015 View profile
- Dr William Kenelm Berkeley Lewis 2008-2014 View profile
- David James Bartram 2008-2014 View profile
- Richard Arthur Wickham 2006-2012 View profile
- Austin Paul Kirwan 2004-2009 View profile
- Dr James Michael Rutter 2004-2013 View profile
- Dr Lydia Akrigg Brown 2004-2014 View profile
- Linda Clarke 2004-2011 View profile
- Mccracken, Robert Milligan, Doctor 2004-2004 View profile
- Professor Timothy Robert Charles Greet 2003-2004 View profile
- David Ian Rae Fotheringham 2003-2004 View profile
- Peter Charles Jinman 2002-2003 View profile
- Andrew Scott 2001-2002 View profile
- Christine Shield 2001-2004 View profile
- Henry Simon Orr 2001-2010 View profile
- Dr John Joseph O'Brien 2001-2004 View profile
- John David Tyson 2000-2001 View profile
- Jeremy Newton Lucke 2000-2010 View profile
- Mark Howard Guy Winwood 2000-2001 View profile
- Robert Charles Young 2000-2014 View profile
- Brenda Julie Foster 2000-2003 View profile
- Gryffudd Richard Eifion Evans 1999-2000 View profile
- Sheila Ann Hargreaves 1998-2000 View profile
- Roy Paxton Anderson 1998-2009 View profile
- Keith Bernard Baker 1998-1999 View profile
- Frederick James Mckeating 1997-2000 View profile
- Edward Alan Chandler 1997-1998 View profile
- Dr John Christopher Low 1997-1998 View profile
- Ian Mcnab 1997-2004 View profile
- Ewan Burgess Mcneill 1997-2022 View profile
- Professor Karl Alexander Linklater 1996-1997 View profile
- Dr James Barry Johnson 1996-2004 View profile
- John James Smyth 1996-2001 View profile
- Andrew Richard Michael Bellars 1996-2004 View profile
- Robert Malcolm Stevenson 1995-2008 View profile
- John Richard Tindall 1995-1997 View profile
- Brian Derek Hoskin 1995-2006 View profile
- Professor William Derek Tavernor 1995-1998 View profile
- Christopher Paul Devile 1994-1995 View profile
- Derek Carter 1994-1995 View profile
- Donald Leslie Haxby 1994-2000 View profile
- David John Lucas 1994-2004 View profile
- David Summers 1994-2004 View profile
- Wendy Sandra Jones 1994-1999 View profile
- Sarah Jane Parker 1994-2010 View profile
- Mark Henry Wharton 1994-2008 View profile
- Dr Andrew Thomas Bailey Edney 1994-1997 View profile
- Donald Robert Highet 1994-1996 View profile
- Jaqueline Patricia Rutter 1994-2004 View profile
- Victorie De Courtheil Creighton Duwker 1992 View profile
- Frank Jagger 1994 View profile
- Jack Brian Walsby 1997 View profile
- Professor Clifford Formston 1993 View profile
- Richard David Locke 1995 View profile
- James Gourley 1994 View profile
- Patricia Anne Morrow 1996 View profile
- Bernard Thomas Wells 1997 View profile
- Dr David Ferguson Wishart 2000 View profile
- Kathleen Mary Harrison 1994 View profile
- Vaughan, Leslie Clifford, Professor - Emeritus 1992 View profile
- Barbara Grace Clarke 1996 View profile
- John Gordon Loxam 1996 View profile
- Beatrice Ann Stewart 1993 View profile
- Dympna Elizabeth Mcparland 1994 View profile
- Sherwin Alexis Hall 1993 View profile
- Thomas Stephen Dean 1995 View profile
- Graham Wight 1997 View profile
- Jill Marion Vaughan 1999 View profile
- Sarah Christine Seabrook 1994 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
- Incorporated
- 06/02/1919
- Also a registered charity
- Vetlife
- Previous names
- Veterinary Benevolent Fund (until 13/07/2022)
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
12 directors on the board
- James Simon Russell Director · appointed 2020
- Hannah Jane Sampson Director · appointed 2025
- Robyn Jane Lowe Director · appointed 2022
- Lynne Gaskarth Director · appointed 2024
- Josephine Anne Oakden Director · appointed 2022
- Emma Margaret Callaghan Director · appointed 2025
- Dr Kelly Lisa Bowlt Blacklock Director · appointed 2023
- Elizabeth Anne Barton Director · appointed 2023
- Dr Nichola Mandy Saunders Harris Director · appointed 2020
- John Rogers Chitty Director · appointed 2020
- Dr Christopher Paul Freeman Director · appointed 2020
- Paul Graham Horwood Director · appointed 2018
Directors past 6 years
- James Simon Russell Director · appointed 2020
- Paul Graham Horwood Director · appointed 2018
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (4)
- Josephine Anne Oakden Director · appointed 2022
- Emma Margaret Callaghan Director · appointed 2025
- Dr Kelly Lisa Bowlt Blacklock Director · appointed 2023
- Dr Nichola Mandy Saunders Harris Director · appointed 2020
Portfolio (8)
- James Simon Russell Director · appointed 2020
- Hannah Jane Sampson Director · appointed 2025
- Robyn Jane Lowe Director · appointed 2022
- Lynne Gaskarth Director · appointed 2024
- Elizabeth Anne Barton Director · appointed 2023
- John Rogers Chitty Director · appointed 2020
- Dr Christopher Paul Freeman Director · appointed 2020
- Paul Graham Horwood Director · appointed 2018
Also govern a charity
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 00153010
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Accounts next due
- 30/09/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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