The founding team.
Lantern is built on the combined experience of practitioners who have spent careers at the frontline of dementia care — not consultants looking in, but people who have done the work.
Registered nurse and dementia care practitioner with over 30 years of frontline experience in the South West. Developer of the Outstanding Toolkit — The Lantern Way — with a verified track record of CQC Outstanding ratings across more than 20 Key Lines of Enquiry, including national Care Home of the Year recognition in 2019.
Paul's founding equity contribution is the OSTK itself — aligning the methodology's success directly with Lantern's commercial performance. He brings practitioner presence to every engagement, not a management layer at a distance.
Angélique brings a lifetime of care sector experience to Lantern's founding team. From a family with deep roots in residential care, she has been immersed in the operational and human realities of running care homes throughout her life — and has worked as a care home director in her own right.
That combination of lived family knowledge and direct leadership experience gives Angélique an instinctive understanding of what makes a care home work — for residents, for families, for staff, and for the business. As Co-Founder and Director of Lantern, she brings that understanding to every strategic and operational decision the group makes.
