Finances and Resources Committee
The Finance and Resources Committee (FRC) is established by and accountable to the RCSLT Board of Trustees (the Board) for the strategic oversight of the RCSLT’s finance and resources function. It is a governance committee and reports into the Board of Trustees in the governance structure.
The FRC oversees the strategic objectives in the RCSLT Strategic Plan in the functional areas of:
- Finance and audit
- Performance management
- Contracts
- HR
- IT infrastructure
- Data security and financial elements of all IT spend
- Health and safety
- Property management
- Membership management
- The RCSLT Heritage
The FRC ensures compliance with the law and relevant legislation or regulations and effectively monitors the financial and business performance of the RCSLT.
Meet the committee
Rebecca Sheeran – FRC chair
Rebecca is an Executive Team member at the National Audit office, responsible for leading its Value for Money practice. She is a chartered accountant with over 20 years experience in both financial and value for money audit of a range of public sector bodies. Rebecca lives in London with her husband and two children.
Ann Whitehorn
Ann Whitehorn qualified as an SLT in 1973 and after working across both adult and paediatric services, developed a specialism in Voice/Head and Neck. She served as Head of SLT for Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and as Director of Therapies, particularly working in the field of Cancer and Supportive Care. Ann also co- led a successful tender for a Community Head and Neck multi-disciplinary team in partnership with Lewisham PCT in 2009, the first of its kind. She has served two terms as Honorary Treasurer for the RCSLT, and acted as a General Trustee before her appointment as FRC chair.
Sundeep Sidhu, RCSLT lay trustee (digital)
Sundeep Sidhu is a product, design, and technology generalist with 20+ years’ experience founding and leading teams to deliver new and better digital products at start-ups, agencies, consultancies, and global brands. He has founded two small businesses, a marketing platform for membership-based organisations and a development coaching and training business working with large media brands.
Describing himself as curious and always learning, he has an interest in inspiring the next generation, and in personal/professional development. He likes people and working collaboratively and is a critical thinker, so great at making sense of complex situations and navigating complexity.
Sundeep volunteers his time as a trustee at RCSLT as he wants to be actively involved in meaningful work that makes a difference, and having overcome his own fears and improved his confidence in public speaking, he understands the power of giving people a voice.
Raman Kaur
Raman qualified as a Speech and language therapist in 2001 in Birmingham. Raman then worked as a children’s community SLT with diverse communities in areas of inequalities in Birmingham. She has always had a portfolio style career being in various roles alongside her clinical role such as child Development coordinator leading a multidisciplinary team , student coordinator for SLT profession and operational manager for the children’s SLT service. She combined her passion for clinical education with visiting lecturer roles in many universities nationally and internationally. She has been the Professional AHP lead for children’ community services in Birmingham since 2020 and is currently seconded part of her time to Associate director of therapies role.
Raman is a Churchill fellow and completing her fellowship in 2014 into models of innovative clinical education and continues to develop her interest in this area by being co -chair of the BSOL AHP faculty from 2019.
She is an active committee volunteer for the charity Mosley in Bloom and a local authority school governor.
Jennifer Lloyd
Jennifer qualified as an SLT at UCL in 2012 and commenced her career in Essex, working with Community Adult Learning Disabilities, a mixed Adult Community Caseload and Paediatric services. Since 2018, she has held the role of Professional Lead for Speech and Language Therapy in Cornwall, working across the acute and community trusts. This role allowed her to hold a broad view across the profession, including oversight of governance, workforce planning and strategy. From 2019 to 2021, Jennifer undertook a secondment with Health Education England within the South West Faculty for Advancing Practice, completing a project on workforce transformation for AHPs, exploring challenges and opportunities for development into Advanced Practice roles. As Professional Lead, she has developed a particular interest in workforce development and transformation. Jennifer has jointly led and developed the Cornwall AHP Future Leaders programme, promoting the power of leadership at all levels. She is excited to bring her strategic thinking and experience to the Finance and resources committee.