Trustees
Asha Ghosh – Chair
Asha is passionate about people reaching their ambition—both professionally and personally. With over seven years as a transformational life and leadership coach and 15 years in marketing communications, she empowers individuals and teams to work with challenges and find pathways through it that allows people to grow.
Holding an MA in Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring, Asha specialises in helping leaders navigate uncertainty, gain clarity, and take meaningful action. Having built a successful business working with professionals in fast-paced industries and complex boardrooms, she gets that we have to take our wellbeing seriously and put it at the centre of our success plans and ambition roadmaps.
As Chair, Asha is dedicated to supporting the board in driving LHM forward. She is committed to championing fresh thinking, collaboration, and sustainable success while honouring the charity’s mission and impact. She looks forward to working closely with the team, strengthening partnerships, and building on LHM’s incredible work to create a lasting legacy.
David Baumber – Treasurer
David is a Chartered Accountant and Senior Finance Manager with E.ON having previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He brings financial skills to the charity in terms of accounting, budgeting, forecasting and cost management. David has a son, Matthew (born June 2002) who has Tricuspid Atresia (a right-sided single ventricle condition), a daughter Rachel, who has a healthy heart but has a genetic condition called achondroplasia (a form of dwarfism), and another son, Thomas. Matthew has had all three stages of surgery. He was very ill as a baby, with breathing difficulties caused by a paralysed diaphragm which needed additional surgery, together with feeding problems meaning that he was tube-fed until he was nine months old. He also had a difficult time in hospital for his Fontan but he is now learning to cope with his condition combined with the rigours of growing up.
Isabel Baumber
Isabel (who is married to David, the Treasurer) has a son, Matthew (born in 2002) who has Tricuspid Atresia (a right-sided single ventricle condition), a daughter Rachel, who has a healthy heart, but who has a genetic condition called achondroplasia (a form of dwarfism), and another son, Thomas.
Matthew was very ill as a baby, with breathing difficulties caused by a paralysed diaphragm which needed additional surgery, together with feeding problems meaning that he was tube-fed until he was nine months old. He also had a difficult time in hospital for his Fontan. He has now left school and is doing an engineering apprenticeship.
Isabel was an Export Marketing Research Adviser for the British Chambers of Commerce, having previously managed Rover Group’s marketing in Latin America, then elements of Rover’s global communication strategy. As a result, Isabel can provide skills in marketing and communications, market research and support for small businesses. She currently works in a school.
Kim Botham
Kim lives in Rotherham with her partner and dog. She was diagnosed with transposition of the great arteries, double outlet right ventricle, VSD and pulmonary stenosis at a few months old, undergoing her Glenn at the age of 3 and having a Fontan and then a pacemaker at 18. Kim has worked within education for over 10 years as a teacher, SENDCo and a member of the Special Educational Needs Assessment and Review Team. She is passionate about ensuring access to education for those with additional needs. LHM became particularly important to Kim during the coronavirus pandemic and she found the charity’s support invaluable during that time, especially as she lived alone.
Sophie Green
Sophie was born in 1997 with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. She has been a member of Little Hearts Matter since she was born was part of the LHM Youth Council from 2008-2016. LHM has always been an important part of Sophie’s life, providing her with important knowledge growing up and allowing her to connect with others with Single Ventricle Heart Conditions as a source of comfort. Sophie is married and lives in Farnham, where she works full-time as a Primary School Teacher. As a Trustee, she hopes to help younger members with the struggles they may face growing up.
Vikki King
Vikki is married to Tom, they have 5 children. Their third child, Isabel was born in May 2012 with HLHS; unfortunately she passed away in June 2012 aged 37days.
Consequently, they have been members of LHM since 2012.
Vikki trained as a Social Worker and practiced for close to 20 years. She worked throughout adult and children’s services in both Canada and the UK. She spent most of her career working with disabled and medically complex children and adults, Fostering and Safeguarding.
Vikki is passionate about ensuring that individuals meet their full potential regardless of disability. Having developed a neurological condition in 2021 that has prevented her from working. She looks forward to seeing how her passion and experience not only as a social worker, but also as a bereaved parent and a disabled individual can be utilised by LHM.
Laura Hewitt
Laura Hewitt and her husband David have been members of Little Hearts Matter since 2021. Their son Edward (Ted) was diagnosed with Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV) at their 20-week scan.
Laura has joined the LHM trust board to gain a deeper understanding of the charity, offer relevant skills, and support LHM to help more families (like it helped theirs). She is an experienced marketing professional who has worked both in the private and not-for-profit sectors.
Hannah Palmer
Hannah is 29 years old and is studying for a Forensic Psychology Degree. She was born with half a heart in 1994 and has been a member of Little Hearts Matter, along with her family, for 20 years. Being a Trustee and learning more about how the Board cares for all the members has been a wonderful experience since coming onto the Board in 2014, and then again in 2021. Her previous experience as a Youth Councillor with LHM also helped her to learn more about what our younger members want from the Charity.
Hannah continues to work with Suzie and Lexie to help develop the services for adults with a single ventricle heart condition. This is work she hopes to continue expanding on, along with the new Adult Council, and the other Trustees to help support other services that have become important to our members.