The JRHT is governed by a Board which is made up of JRHT Trustees, external members and 2 Residents.

The Resident Board members are to be appointed in early May.

Information on the current Board members is below.

JRHT Trustees

Nigel Naish - Chair

Nigel was appointed as a Trustee in 1983. Educated at Bootham School, York, and the College of Estate Management and he is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Beginning his career with Jackson, Stops and Staff in 1961, he formed his own company in York in 1974. He is the Foundation's Senior Trustee for York. He is also Director of Cober Hill, a Quaker conference centre near Scarborough, and served as Chair of the Governors of the Retreat Hospital, York. He is co-Director (with his wife Diana) of Naish Hotels & Catering Ltd.

Dame Mavis McDonald - Deputy Chair

Mavis was appointed as a Trustee in 2006. She was a career civil servant for 39 years. She worked largely on housing, regeneration, community development, social exclusion and local government finance, structure and performance in the Department for Environment and its successors. She was Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 2000 to 2002 and retired as Permanent Secretary at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in October 2005.

She is Chair of the Catalyst Housing Group, Deputy Chair of Governors at Birkbeck College (University of London), and an honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Dr Ashok Jashapara

Ashok was appointed as a Trustee in 2004. Educated at Christ College Grammar School in London, City University and Henley Management College, he started his career as a bridge designer and builder and then moved into academia and taught a variety of subjects from structural engineering to strategic management. Subsequently, he has led a large academic department and the largest disability consultancy in the UK, JMU Access Partnership.

Ashok is currently an internationally recognised expert in the field of 'knowledge management' and Chair of the Knowledge Management Research Group at Loughborough University. He is a Hindu Quaker and a Member of the Committee for Racial Equality of the Religious Society of Friends.

Susan V Hartshorne

Susan was appointed as a Trustee in 1998. Educated at The Mount School in York, Manchester University and Gray's Inn, she worked as a Chair of Social Security Tribunals and was active in NHS management from 1971 to 1999. She was Vice-Chair of Manchester Central Health Authority and Chair of Manchester Infertility Services and Ethical Committee. She also chaired Mosscare Housing Association and is active on numerous Quaker committees.

She now lives in the Foundation's continuing care retirement community,
Hartrigg Oaks.

Ann Bowtell

Ann was appointed as a Trustee in 2001. Educated in Reading and at Girton College, Cambridge, Ann had a distinguished career with the Civil Service. She worked with the National Assistance Board, Ministry of Social Security, the Department of Health, as First Civil Service Commissioner and with the Department of Social Security as Permanent Secretary from 1995 to 1999.

External Members

Delroy Beverley

Recent member of Housing Operations Committee. Director of Contract Services - Bradford Community Housing Trust.

Chris Vellenoweth

Recent member of Care Services Committee. Independent health policy adviser, Barchester Health Care; previously chief officer in NHS.

George Wood

Recent member of Care Services Committee. Chair of York Valuing People Partnership Board, and Hartfields Extra Care Partnership. Retired; previously Deputy Chief Executive, York NHS Hospitals Trust

Ros Batchelor

Recent member of Housing Operations Committee. Interim Manager an
Consultant. Previously, Head of Development, Unity Housing Association.

Claire Warren

Recent member of Development and Property Committee. Chief Executive of West North West Homes, Leeds ALMO.

Graham Millar

Member of Finance and Personnel Committee. Retired; previously Group Finance Director, Nestle

UK and Ireland.