Meet our team
Liz Thorne
Chief Executive Officer
Liz has spent the last 15 years in senior leadership roles within the voluntary sector and brings a wealth of strategic and operational experience to Remember My Baby. She has a first-class degree in Business Administration, gained as a mature student, and also previously owned her own data and telecommunications business for ten years.
Based in Kent, Liz spends much of her spare time in her sewing room making mainly clothes. She also enjoys quizzing and going to see live music (mainly the rock variety).
Kim Hood
Lead Photographer
Kim looks after the quality of our images and the welfare of our volunteer photographers.
Kim, who was a trustee for the charity for several years, has been a member of RMB since we launched in August of 2014. Kim is one of our most experienced volunteers and has carried out over 230 photographic sessions with bereaved families. She also volunteers as a Regional Support Officer.
After previously running her own photography business and then working for three years in a funeral home, Kim has the necessary skills and empathy to take our photography volunteers under her wing and run the day-to-day process of taking care of the precious images for the families we serve.
Michele Selvey
Co-founder, Volunteer Secretary
Michele is one of Remember My Baby’s original Co-founders.
She currently volunteers for RMB in a Volunteer Secretary role and handles the onboarding process for new volunteers, the offboarding for leavers and deals with keeping volunteers and hospitals topped up with literature – as well as sending out merchandise.
All this on top of a full-time ‘day job’!
Meet our Trustees
Gavin Bowyer MA ARPS FRCS
Chair of Trustees, Volunteer Photographer
Gavin was a trauma and orthopaedic consultant for more than two decades, in the Armed Forces, NHS and private practice. He has held leadership and management roles as well as teaching/coaching. He is entirely comfortable in a clinical environment as well as interacting with senior hospital management.
Gavin is also an elected trustee on the Board of the Royal Photographic Society. He therefore has board experience of a charity, including recruitment and transformation. He is familiar with charity leadership and governance.
He has enjoyed photography for two decades, working with two international wildlife charities and has been a volunteer photographer for Remember My Baby since 2020, and a trustee since 2023, being elected Chair during that year.
Lysa Holdstock
Honorary Treasurer
Lysa is a seasoned entrepreneurial agency founder, Senior Business Leader, and Board Advisor with extensive experience in retail execution across diverse sectors, including Grocery, Convenience, High Street, Electronics, and Digital Direct-to-Consumer (DTC). Currently serving as a Trustee and Treasurer for Remember My Baby, Lysa brings a robust commercial acumen to support the charity’s mission.
As a dynamic and innovative leader, Lysa has a proven track record of developing sustainable business solutions while fostering an inclusive and creative workplace. Known for their integrity, resilience, and agility, Lysa has built a reputation as an authentic leader with comprehensive expertise across all business functions.
In addition to their professional achievements, Lysa is the founder of ‘She Makes a Difference,’ an initiative designed to empower SME founders and senior executives by helping them shape their vision, define their purpose, and build their legacy. Passionate about making a positive impact, Lysa combines strategic oversight with a commitment to people development, driving business performance and growth through a multi-dimensional approach.
Cheryl Johnson
Co-Founder, Trustee, Volunteer Photographer
Cheryl Johnson is a wife, mother to two grown sons, and a photographer who specialises in family photography in Essex. She has also been awarded the honour of the British Empire Medal (BEM) in recognition of the impact and achievements of the charity that she helped to co-found in August 2014.
Born in East London, she first used the camera to document life growing up in the 70s in and around Upton Park, which was also once the home of her beloved football team. Never one to resist change she has settled into WHU’s new home at the London Stadium. She also loves to travel with her husband and they have travelled extensively with just Australia and Antarctica on their list of continents to explore.
A passionate photographer for over forty years, she has been a business owner for the past fourteen. Cheryl’s first experience of a family’s devastation was when a friend had a stillborn baby on Christmas Day 1989. All they had to remember their son was one black and white Polaroid picture. They had it enlarged and even though the quality was extremely poor, framed it is proudly displayed along with other family members’ photos. This stayed with Cheryl for many years until in 2007 she first became involved with remembrance photography. “This is what I was meant to do,” says Cheryl.
Cheryl is committed to Remember My Baby and its aims. She is passionate about breaking the silence around baby loss as RMB’s gift of remembrance photography continues to develop in the UK.
Nicky Heppenstall
Co-Founder, Trustee, Volunteer Photographer
Nicky is married to an engineer, Mark, and they live in Derbyshire. They have two grown up children, Oliver and Jodie. Their stillborn daughter Kim remains part of the family, and is the reason for Nicky’s evident passion for Remembrance Photography.
A keen photographer since her teens, Nicky decided to turn professional after undertaking training with studio lighting and achieving a Distinction with the Royal Photographic Society. After 8 successful years running her business part time, Nicky has now retired from professional photography, but will never give up taking photographs.
She has had previous experience volunteering for national charities at a local level, mainly with regard to bereavement support following the loss of a baby, and is determined to see Remembrance Photography offered as a choice to parents as widely as possible across the UK.
Martin Pendry
Trustee, Volunteer Photographer
Martin has worked in healthcare for the last 25 years as a clinician, educator and manager in Primary Care and the community. Martin has taught at undergraduate level in his field not only in the UK but also in Europe and Russia. He has a special interest in the phenomenology of the touch as experienced by patients in a clinical setting.
For most of his adult life has been volunteering, including at London Lighthouse, which supported people living with HIV to die well and then, when medication changed the landscape, live well with HIV. Martin has developed his governance skills at two different schools as Governor and at three charities as Trustee linked to healthcare or older people, most recently as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Age UK Kensington and Chelsea.
Martin has enjoyed taking photos as a hobby and escape from work. He can often be found exploring London streets with his camera, and sometimes leading a photo walk. Since 2017 he has been a Volunteer Photographer for Remember My Baby, based in London, capturing priceless images for over 100 families in that time.
Anton Rawlinson
Trustee, Volunteer Photographer
Based in Derby, Anton recently left Rolls-Royce after 32 years as a cooling design engineer and Technical Leader for Turbine Cooling. His process and strategy development work in this role provides some useful experience for the charity.
Anton also is a partner in a local photography business, focusing mainly on anything people related. Along with partner Andy, Anton has supported a number of local charities through their event photography but it is Remember My Baby to which Anton is looking to devote more of his newly acquired free time to over the next few years.
Anton is married to Sarah and together have two children, Holly and Max, both now grown up and working. When not photographing, Anton enjoys triathlons and has recently converted a van to a camper in which he and Sarah intend to do a lot more travelling both here in the UK and around Europe.
Anton lost a nephew James at birth a number of years ago and recognises the value that remembrance photography has for families. Having recognised one of the charity’s co-founders at a photography event as the wife of a work colleague, Anton joined the charity as a volunteer photographer in 2017 and has completed over 100 sessions. He is keen to see the charity grow to its full potential and to realise the vision of the founders to make professional quality photography available to all bereaved families in the UK
