We share the same Trustees and directors as the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation. New
Trustees are appointed alternately by the Trustees themselves and
by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Trustees
Directors and senior managers
Biographies
Educated in Reading and at Girton College, Cambridge, Dame 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. Created Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1997,
she was appointed as a Trustee in 2001. She also serves as the
Chair of the Foundation's Poverty and Disadvantage Committee, and
is a member of the Practice and Research, Housing Operations
Committee and Finance and Personnel Committees.
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Educated at The Mount School in York, Manchester University and
Gray's Inn, Susan Hartshorne 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 was also
the Chair of Mosscare housing association in Manchester. Appointed
a magistrate in Manchester in 1972, she now serves on the York
bench. Active on numerous Quaker committees, Susan Hartshorne is
currently chair of the Trustees of The Friend magazine. Appointed a
Trustee in 1998, she is Chair of the Housing Operations and New
Earswick Management Committees. Susan Hartshorne now lives in the
Foundation's continuing care retirement community, Hartrigg
Oaks.
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Dr Ashok
Jashapara
Educated at Christ College Grammar School in London, City
University and Henley Management College, Ashok Jashapara started
his career as a bridge designer and builder. He 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 Jashapara 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.
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Robert J Maxwell CVO
CBE
Educated at Oxford, Pennsylvania, Tromso, and the London School
of Economics, Robert Maxwell's background lies in the field of
public health policy and administration. He has served as an
administrator of the Special Trustees of St. Thomas's Hospital, as
director of several NHS Trusts, and was Secretary and Chief
Executive of the King's Fund from 1980 to 1997. He is the author of
books on the future of NHS administration. Appointed a Trustee in
1994, Robert Maxwell is a member of the Poverty and Disadvantage
Committee and Independent Living Single Programme Committee. He
also chairs the Gloucestershire Partnership Trust which runs NHS
mental health and learning disability services.
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Bharat Mehta
OBE
Bharat took up the position of Clerk to the Trustees of the
City Parochial Foundation in 1998. Before taking up this post, he
was Chief Executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (NSF,
recently renamed RETHINK), one of the largest British mental health
charities working with severely mentally ill people, their carers
and relatives. He joined NSF as Director of Development in 1989 and
became its Chief Executive in 1993. He has worked as a research
assistant for the Medical Research Council (MRC), as a community
development officer for a London based charity called Pensioners
Link, and as a policy officer for the National Council for the
Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). Prior to joining NSF, he was a
principal officer in the social services department of the London
Borough of Waltham Forest.
Appointed a Trustee in 2003, he Chairs the Practice and Research
Committee. He is also a non-executive director of the North
Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, a member of the Council of
Planning Aid and a founder member and currently, a patron, of the
Revolving Doors Agency. From 1999 to 2004 he was the chair of
governors of Bowes Primary School, a local state school.
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Nigel
Naish
Educated at Bootham School, York, and the College of Estate
Management, Nigel Naish 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. Appointed
a Trustee in 1983 Nigel Naish served as Chair of the Housing
Operations Committee before taking up his present responsibilities
as Chair of the Care Services Committee. He is 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.
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Tony Stoller
CBE
A Quaker, Tony Stoller was appointed a Trustee in 2005 and has
served on the JRF Finance and Personnel Committee since 2002. His
background lies in broadcasting and retailing: he worked with the
Independent Broadcasting Authority as Head of Radio Programming
from 1974 to 1979, the Radio Authority (as Chief Executive) from
1995 to 2003 and as External Relations Director with the Office of
Communications (Ofcom) from April 2003. Between 1984 and 1995 he
was a principal director in the John Lewis Partnership. In 2001 he
published "Wrestling with the Angel" about the position of
Quakers and others in commercial and public life.
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Debby Ounsted - Chair
Debby Ounsted was appointed Trustee in 2002 and became deputy
Chair in 2005. She is Chair of the Housing and Neighbourhood
Committee and a member of the Finance and Personnel
Committee. Debby has been the chief executive of two housing
associations: Habinteg which has a special interest in people with
disabilities and where she worked with JRF on the Lifetime Homes
reforms; and the Octavia Hill Housing Trust, a long established
community-based association with a particular interest in the care
of elderly people. She is now a freelance consultant and writer on
housing and care matters. She is a past chair of KIDS, the charity
concerned with children's play facilities.
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Mavis McDonald 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 - 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 Birbeck College
(University of London), and an honorary member of the Chartered
Institute of Housing.
Don Brand MBE
Don Brand has spent more than 35 years working in the field of
social care. After 20 years with local authority social services,
he became Deputy Chief Inspector in the former Social Services
Inspectorate at the Department of Health. On moving to the National
Institute for Social Work (NISW) in 1996, he was involved with the
setting up of the General Social Care Council. He also has broad
voluntary sector experience.
Directors and Deputy Directors
Julia Unwin - Director
Julia Unwin has long experience as an advocate for the users of
housing, health and social care services, and recently chaired the
King's Fund Inquiry into the operation of the care market for older
people. As a researcher, author and consultant she has focused on
the development of services, and in particular the governance and
funding of voluntary organisations and their relationship with
Government. She has researched and published widely on funding
issues.
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Michael Sturge - Deputy
Director
Michael Sturge was educated at Bootham School, York and at Bristol
University. He is a chartered accountant and before moving to the
Foundation worked with Price Waterhouse, Duport Ltd and the Housing
Corporation. He joined the JRF in 1980 as Director of Finance and
has been Deputy Director since 1992. In addition to his work with
the Foundation, Michael Sturge has acted as Trustee and Chair of
The Pensions Trust. He has been a Member of the Council of the
University of York since 1997 and treasurer since 2000.
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Nigel Ingram - Director
of Development and Property Services
Before joining the Foundation, Nigel Ingram was Director of
Emblem Homes, the private sale subsidiary of the Places for People
Group. Nigel already had an understanding of the
Foundation, starting his career as an apprentice joiner at the
estate department when it was in Station Avenue in New Earswick.
Before joining Emblem Homes he held various positions within the
voluntary housing sector, including the Notting Hill Housing Group,
and private building sector and has particular experience in
procurement and social housing grant.
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Paul Dack - Director of
Finance
Paul Dack is a chartered accountant who joined the Foundation
from Thomson Mclintock (now part of KPMG) in 1986 initially as
Chief Accountant. He became the Trusts Director of Finance in
1997. Paul is a main board member and Chair of the Care and Support
Board at St Pancras and Humanist Housing Association in London. He
has also been treasurer of a number of local voluntary
organisations including York Council for Voluntary Services and
York Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders.
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John Kennedy - Director
of Care Services
John Kennedy attended Archbishop Holgate's School in York before
entering Manchester University where he gained a degree in
economics. He has worked in a nursing home near York and briefly
ran his own company selling computer systems to small businesses.
He then became general manager at Londesborough Healthcare Ltd in
East Yorkshire before joining the Foundation in June 2001 as Deputy
Director of Care Services. He became Director of Care Services on 1
January 2004.
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Jacquie Dale - Director Housing and Community
Services
Jacquie has been working at the Foundation since 1997 when she
was appointed as a Community Development Officer. She joined
the Foundation from the National Association of Council for
Voluntary Service in Sheffield. Previously she worked with
Agewell: a national programme of health activities for older people
(also in Sheffield), developed health projects that met the needs
of Asian women and produced the first Women's Health Handbook for
Leicester City Council. Holding a degree in Youth and Community
Work Jacquie manages the housing and community Services teams, The
Garth, parks and gardens department and early years provision.
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Peter Giles - Deputy
Director Development and Property Services
Peter began work in the construction industry in 1967 with Shepherd
Construction Ltd, a York based building contractor. He was employed
as a technical student and completed his training and professional
qualifications with Shepherds as a building surveyor. In 1974 he
went to Zambia where he worked as a building surveyor on a major
housing development in the capital city of Lusaka. On his retun to
the UK he worked with Allison Homes and then with Willliam Irwin
& Co, a Leeds based building contractor, as senior surveyor,
contracts manager. He joined the Foundation in 1986 as Building and
Estates Manager and was appointed Deputy Director of Property
Services in 1996.