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
Ann was appointed 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. Ann is the Chair
of the Poverty Strategy Group;Chair of the Public Interest in
Poverty Issues advisory group and a member of the JRHT Board,
Derwenthorpe Partnership Advisory Committee and Nominations
Committee.
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Susan was appointed as a Trustee in 1998. 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. She is currently
Chair of YACRO (York Association for the Care and Resettlement of
Offenders). She now lives in the Foundation's continuing care
retirement community,
Hartrigg Oaks.
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Dr Ashok
Jashapara
Ashok was appointed 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 Jashapara is
currently an internationally recognised expert in the field of
knowledge management and until recently was 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.
Ashok is the Chair of the Empowerment Strategy Group.
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Bharat Mehta
OBE
Bharat was appointed as a Trustee in 2003. He is Chief
Executive of the City Parochial Foundation. 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. Prior
to joining NSF, he was a Principal Officer in the Social Services
Department of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. He has also
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 Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
Bharat is a non-executive director and vice chair of the North
Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (2005-present) and a
founder member and currently, a patron, of the Revolving Doors
Agency (1996 - present). From 1999 to 2004 he was the chair of
governors of Bowes Primary School, a local state school.
Bharat is Chair of the Investment Committee.
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Nigel
Naish
Nigel was appointed a Trustee in 1983. 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. 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 Chair of the Mount and Bootham
Schools Joint Committee as well as co-Director (with his wife
Diana) of Naish Hotels and Catering Ltd.
Nigel is Chair of the JRHT Board and a member of the Derwenthorpe
Partnership Advisory Committee, Clifton Estates, Finance and
Personnel Committee, Remuneration Committee, York Committee,
Empowerment Strategy Group and the Programme Advisory Group on
Alcohol.
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Tony Stoller
CBE
Tony was appointed a Trustee in 2004 and has been Deputy Chair
of the JRF and JRHT since October 2006.
A Quaker, his background lies in broadcasting, regulation and
retailing. He was Chief Executive of The Radio Authority from 1995
- 2003, and then helped set up the new communications regulator,
Ofcom, prior to his retirement at the end of 2005. Between 1986 and
1995 he was a Principal Director in the John Lewis Partnership. His
earlier career was in newspapers and radio.
In 2001 he published "Wrestling with the Angel" about the
position of Quakers and others in commercial and public life. He is
currently working on a history of independent radio in the
UK.
Tony is Chair of the Finance and Personnel Committee and a member
of the Place Strategy Group, Investment Committee, Clifton Estates,
Audit Committee and the Nominations Committee.
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Debby Ounsted - Chair
Debby Ounsted has been a Trustee since 2002 and was appointed
Chair of the Foundation and the Housing Trust in 2006. Educated at
Girton College, Cambridge and with a postgraduate diploma in
publishing from Oxford Brookes, Debby worked in housing and local
government until 2001. During that time she was chief executive of
Habinteg Housing Association, which is especially concerned with
housing people with disabilities. She was also CE of Octavia Hill
Housing Trust, a long established community-based association with
a particular interest in the care and support of older people. She
has served on a number of housing association and voluntary sector
boards including six years as chair of KIDS, the charity concerned
with children with disabilities and their families.
Now a freelance management consultant and writer she specialises in
governance, strategic development and inspection. Debby is a member
of the Housing and Almshouses Committee of the Mercers livery
company.
Debby chairs the Bradford Strategy Group, and the Nominations
Committee. She is a member of the Poverty Strategy Group, Finance
and Personnel Committee, Derwenthorpe Partnership Advisory
Committee and the Remuneration Committee.
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Mavis was appointed 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 - 2002 and retired as Permanent Secretary
at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in October 2005.
She is Chair of the Public Sector Construction Clients Forum, and
an honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.
Mavis is the Chair of the Place Strategy Group, a member of Clifton
Estates, the Finance and Personnel Committee and the Audit
Committee.
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Don is a consultant working with the Social Care Institute for
Excellence (SCIE), government departments, the devolved
Administrations and national social care organisations. He has
helped SCIE and other bodies develop participation strategies with
organisations of people using services and carers. He has worked on
a range of policy, implementation and workforce topics,including
the reviews of social work roles and tasks in England, Scotland and
Northern Ireland, commissioning and personalisation developments,
and workforce development strategies to support new policies for
children and adults, as well as assisting the work of the All-Party
Parliamentary Social Care Group.
Following 20 years in Oxford and Kent Social Services Departments,
Don was for 7 years Deputy Chief Inspector in the Social Services
Inspectorate at the Department of Health. Moving in 1996 to the
former National Institute for Social Work (NISW), he was involved
with setting up the four UK Social Care Councils, the Topss England
National Training Organisation, and SCIE. He is a Trustee of the
Residential Forum, and a past Board member of NCH Action for
Children, the older people's charity MHA Care Group, and MCCH,
which provides community services for people with mental health
problems and learning disabilities. Don was awarded an MBE for his
services to social care in 2005.
Don chairs the Remuneration Committee as well as the Alcohol
Programme Advisory Group. He is a member of the Empowerment
Strategy Group.
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Steven
Burkeman
For 19 years, until 2001, Steven was the Trust
Secretary of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Before then, he
worked as a teacher; in the non-profit sector; in local government;
and as a consumer advocate in the National Health Service. Since
2001, he has worked as an independent consultant, mainly with grant
making trusts and human rights NGOs.
Steven has written and lectured widely in the UK and
internationally on issues relating to philanthropy. He has served
on various boards, including the Community Fund (now part of the
Big Lottery Fund), and the board for the Legal Complaints
Service.
He founded and chairs the Rowntree Society, which seeks to ensure
that a new generation understands the contemporary significance of
the work and ideas of the Rowntree family. He also sits on the
board of Jessie's Fund a small York-based charity working
nationally to help children who are ill or disabled to communicate
through music.
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Chief Executive and Directors
Julia Unwin - Chief Executive
Julia Unwin was appointed Chief Executive of the Foundation and
the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust in January 2007.
She was a member of the Housing Corporation Board for 10 years and
a Charity Commissioner from 1998-2003. Julia was also Deputy Chair
of the Food Standards Agency and worked as an independent
consultant operating within government and the voluntary and
corporate sectors. In that role, she focused on the development of
services and in particular the governance and funding of voluntary
organisations. Julia has researched and written extensively on the
role, governance and funding of the voluntary sector.
She previously held a position as chair of the Refugee Council
from 1995 until 1998, and is now a trustee of York Museums and
Gallery Trust, and (from August 2009) a member of the University of
York's Council. She is also a Governor of the Pensions Policy
Institute.
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John Hocking - Executive Director of JRHT
John started work in the housing
industry in 1979 when he started out as a Housing trainee and
Estate officer in Southwark. Previously he has held positions
as Chief Officer for Leeds North West Homes, Assistant
Director of Housing Services for City of York and Head of
Tenant Services at York City
Council.
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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 of 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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