The Team
Rowan Chambers
Founder & Director of Dorset Menopause Support
Rowan is a Menopause Support and Wellbeing Coach and feels passionately about improving care within womens health. She regularly attends webinars and courses to constantly update and improve her knowledge.
Downtime is spent with her horse and the upkeep of her small livery yard. She loves walking and exploring more of the countryside through Dorset, the Jurassic coastline and surrounding counties.
Claire Stone
Director
Claire is an Advanced Dental Nurse with a special interest in sedation and implants. She regularly signs up for new dental courses to stay current with the ever increasing changes in the industry.
Being a farmers daughter she has always had a passion for the outdoors and all things 4 legged. Claire loves to help elderly friends in their gardens and is teaching herself to paddleboard when time allows.
Emily Tytheridge
Director
Emily works as a Senior Equestrian Yard Mangager running the every day proceedings of a busy riding school. She is responsible for staff training and regular schooling of the horses and ponies.
Emily has been developing a second career alongside her day job and is an established portrait artist regularly taking on commissions.
Emily built the website for us and became more invested in the area of women's health due to her increasing knowledge and personal experiences. She continues to be the IT expert among us!
Bekki Stalker
Director
Bekki has more than 25 year's experience in the not-for-profit sector, where she combined innovation, simplicity and a people focused approach towards managing community orientated projects.
Bekki says 'I hate injustice and have a passion for inclusiveness and accessibility - giving a voice to the quiet one in the room. I believe in inclusive communities where everyone feels safe and has an equal voice in helping shape their community, and has a sense of purpose and belonging.'
Bekki spends time with friends and family, grew up in Dorset and is a bit of a nerd! She loves Syfy, LARPing, D&D and going to the theatre and watching films. She loves animals, in particular cats and elephants, backpacked around the world and enjoys learning about and experiencing different cultures.
Vicci Gillet
Volunteer
Vicci is an experienced Pilates and Biomechanics Instructor. She has a special interest of the pelvis function, and loves helping people to move and feel better within their body.
Her hobbies are lengthy and she enjoys being very active! She loves being outside riding, cycling, kayaking, and climbing to name a few.
Vicci helps to lead some of the 'Walk and Talk' events. Through her profession she supports women through many stages of adult life and signposts them to our services if needed.
Alison Tytheridge
Volunteer
Alison is Propietor of a popular and long standing Riding School & Livery Yard in the heart of the Blackmore Vale.
She enjoys walking her dogs round the fields and participating in dog agility. Part of her busy lifestyle involves spending time with her children and ever growing number of grandchildren.
Alison has many years experience in running a business and she brings some great practical ideas to the table to help us.
Amanda McMaster
Volunteer
Amanda has joined us as a volunteer following a long career in the NHS where she spent the majority of her time working in Intensive Care and then later in Palliative Care as a Specialist Nurse. After her own experience of endometriosis and menopause, she feels passionately about giving women (and their loved ones) the information, education and support they want/need to help them through their experiences.
Amanda lives with her husband Steve and their dog Winnie. She loves walking in the countryside, keeping fit, crocheting, sewing, quilting and baking for friends and family.
Amanda helps to run the Sturminster Newton group and attends many health and community events to raise awareness of the support we offer. She has also helped to source a significant amount of fundraising to enable more women to have access to fully funded one to one menopause support.
Alison Cooper
Accountant and Treasurer
Footnote from Rowan
I have known many of the women on my team for an exceptional number of years. The younger members I have known from childhood and into their adult years. Two of my fellow directors have been in my life for over 35 years. This was so important to me, not only for reasons of mutual trust, understanding, respect and reliability, but for the greater success and longevity of the C.I.C.
All members offer me professional and at times, emotional support. Each bring a unique set of skills and perspective, and their ideas inspire me and lead to practical ways to help more women, and to educate everyone in the community on the subject of menopause.
My heartfelt thanks goes to each and every one of my volunteers and committee members to enable Dorset Menopause Support to grow and support many more women in the community. I am excited to see what we can achieve for the care of menopausal women now, and the generations of women to follow.