It is with great gratitude for her leadership, and warm wishes for the future, that LCGB announces the retirement of Zoe Faulkner IBCLC as Chair.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Linda Brownlie FCCA IBCLC as our Chair-elect.

Zoe Faulkner IBCLC was appointed Chair of LCGB in 2015, after serving for several years as Chair of the Communications Team, and has led LCGB through a period of growth, professionalisation and transformation.  Under her vision and leadership, LCGB became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in 2020. Our membership has grown 50%, as LCGB developed more professional resources for IBCLCs in the UK and continued to advocate for skilled and specialist breastfeeding care, and LCGB has flourished through the challenges of recent years.

Zoe currently chairs the Breastfeeding Alliance joint working group developing the Infant Feeding Core Competencies framework, and she will continue to serve in that and numerous other projects. She has recently been elected to the Board of the International Lactation Consultant Association where she will be able to take her passion for providing families with access to skilled IBCLC support to an international level.

Linda Brownlie has served as LCGB’s Treasurer since 2019

Linda brings strong skills to LCGB as a qualified accountant, with almost 30 years of financial, governance and project management experience. She qualified as an IBCLC in 2016, having supported many vulnerable families in Hull with the award-winning Goodwin Development Trust volunteer doula and peer support project since 2010; a project that was replicated in other cities in the UK. Linda also successfully campaigned with fellow volunteers to save the project in 2017.

Advocacy for families and the organisations that support them is Linda’s passion. She is also dedicated to supporting aspiring IBCLCs and helping to open the doors to accreditation to a diverse community of future IBCLCs.