Our Team
Darren Toms
Managing Director
Darren started his career in pensions in 1996 and has been helping UK Insolvency Practitioners and businesses with complex pension related matters ever since. He is passionate, empathetic and positive about his work, particularly when creating cost effective compliant solutions that can offer minimal involvement and risk exposure for his clients.
Darren is the longest serving pension professional working exclusively in the pensions and insolvency market and also a proud member of the R3 Pensions Working Group that tackles any pension related matters that affect UK insolvency law.
Having permanently lived within close proximity of Clumber Park in the heart of Sherwood Forest, Darren is proud of building a business that has created local job opportunities and investment for the local environment.
In his spare time, Darren is an avid football fan, enjoys playing golf and exploring the local countryside. Darren also enjoys spending time with his family and friends, going on holiday abroad and around the UK.
Paul Milton
Director
Paul joined Clumber as a director of the ERA business in July 2019 after 32 years’ experience in the insolvency industry. He is highly experienced in dealing with complex onsite situations assisting employers and employees and understands the many challenges our clients face. During what is undoubtedly one of the most difficult times an employee will face, he is determined to ensure that our ERA team provides empathetic support and assistance to employees.
His day-to-day focus is the delivery of an all-inclusive suite of ERA solutions to Insolvency Practitioners looking for efficiency and cost effectiveness, without compromising on quality.
Paul has known Darren for more than twenty years and is very excited to be able to grow the already excellent reputation of the Clumber brand. He really enjoys focussing on both the personal relationships and the financial detail required to be the most effective and engaged provider of ERA services.
He is married with three children and has been a season ticket holder with Leicester City for over thirty years. When time permits, and there is no fixture in the diary, he loves spending it with family on the East Coast.
Louise Cottam
Service Delivery Director
Louise joined Clumber Consultancy in March 2020, bringing with her over 30 years of pensions experience, having worked for a pension provider, an in-house pension scheme, as a pension trustee and Client Director. Her experience spans both live and paid-up Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution pensions, as well as winding up pension schemes. She has also managed teams, training both Trustees and staff and implementing work processes.
Louise has known Darren for more than twenty years and with strong commercial awareness and technical knowledge, was excited to join Clumber to grow and develop the team. Louise is the director overseeing all business operations, service delivery and engaging and empowering staff to take ownership of their work.
Outside work, Louise enjoys spending time with her family and friends, exploring new walks with her springer spaniel, baking and theatre trips.
Kathryn Walker
Senior Administrator
Kathryn joined Clumber in September 2020 with nearly 4 years insolvency experience coming from a well known insolvency practice in West Yorkshire. Prior to this Kathryn worked in the banking industry for 12 years and dealt with many aspects within her role, including Personal banking, Business banking and Probate.
Outside of work, Kathryn enjoys spending quality time with her partner and her two beautiful girls. She loves family breaks in the UK and abroad and socialising with her friends.
Chrissy Toms
Administrator
Chrissy joined Clumber in 2022 as an administrator on the Pensions team, after working in retail management for over 20 years. Her decision to change career wasn’t easy, loving her role as she did. However, the extremely long hours required of a retail industry manager was impacting her time with her young family, so she took a chance and joined Clumber. She readily acknowledges this was the best decision of her life – as she now has an amazing work life balance and is able to spend more time at home with her family.
Despite no prior experience working in the Insolvency industry directly, Chrissy contributes her years of administrative experience, a fantastic work ethic and excellent customer service skills to great effect. She loves working for Clumber and is proud to be part of a wonderful team where she assists in producing Clumbers Pension Scheme reports and the Pension Claims to the Redundancy Payment Service.
Outside work, Chrissy enjoys spending time with her partner, their children and her family and friends. She loves to cook, read books and explore new countries and believes it is really important to always have a holiday booked!
Emily Bainbridge
Senior Administrator
Emily joined Clumber as an Administrator in October 2022 after being made redundant from the Construction Industry. With plenty of transferable Admin and Customer Service skills it was time for a change, and she was drawn to Clumber to gain experience in the Insolvency Industry and learn new skills. Emily was promoted to Senior Administrator in July 2025 in recognition of her hard work and development over the last three years.
Her role at Clumber, as Senior Administrator to the Pensions Team, sees her completing employee pension claims for all pension schemes and assist in completing pension scheme reports. Emily is really enjoying being a part of Clumber: “It’s great to work in such a professional yet approachable team”.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her fiancé and going on new adventures with their dog. Her annual Cornish holiday is a particular highlight.
Amie Townsley
Administrator
Amie joined Clumber Consultancy at the start of 2024 to become an integral part of the Trustee team. She is eager to learn and grow in her role and is excited to be a part of the pensions and insolvency industry. Amie is known for her positive attitude and her ability to work well with others. She enjoys taking up new challenges and is always willing to go the extra mile to get the job done.
Outside work, Amie enjoys exploring the great outdoors on walks and adventures with her beloved Cavachon, called Benji. She also loves socialising with friends and family, travelling and trying new foods and restaurants.
Ellie Milton
Administrator
Ellie joined Clumber in August 2024 with nearly 20 years of insolvency experience. In her previous roles, she managed a portfolio of both Personal and Corporate Insolvencies, later specialising in Members Voluntary Liquidations. She gained invaluable insight and transferable skills from working with an Insolvency Practitioner, and is looking forward to putting this to good use at Clumber Consultancy.
Outside of work, she enjoys reading, cooking and spending time with the family. She also loves family breaks to the East Coast and socialising with friends.