Trustees

Sue Wade (Chair):

Sue has 21 years experience in management of public services, including Deputy Chief Probation Officer and managing innovative youth justice projects in the UK and USA. She is Chair of the Howard League for Penal Reform and the League’s representative at the United Nations Crime Commission. Sue also sits on an Advisory Board for a national children’s charity.

Sheila Wade (Treasurer) :

Sheila Wade has 20 years experience of running her own business and is currently the Financial Director. She has previous experience in Training and Further Education and a career in multi national business including publishing and manufacturing. Sheila is also Treasurer of three other charitable organisations.

Nigel Appleby:

Nigel is an experienced finance manager with successful leadership and growth/change management experience in private and public SME companies (IPO experience). Substantial Mergers, Acquisitions and Disposals experience. Strategic and customer focused with strong financial skills (IFRS and GAAP etc.). Commercial and customer focused with HR, IT and facilities management skills. His key sector experiences are in Manufacturing, Business Services & Support, Charities & Not for Profit, and Retail.

Andrew Brooker:

Andrew’s career in social care started in 1976 as a social work assistant in a deprived inner city area of Plymouth. He qualified as a generic social worker in 1978, and was promoted to team leader in 1981. His work covered all client groups and statutory responsibilities. Promotions entailed and moves to two other local authorities, East Sussex and North Yorkshire before he arrived in Hampshire in 1989 as Assistant Director of Social Services for 15 years, a role with varying responsibilities that he held until his early retirement in 2006.

Since 2006, Andrew has become a Trustee of SCA and SCA Fenwick2, which are social enterprises providing a wide range of social care services. He has  undertaken consultancy work on the VCS Engage policy roll-out for DFES by surveying its implementation in local authorities nationally, and identifying good practice. He has also participated in the SEEDA commissioned work on Social Enterprise. He is also a school minibus driver!
The Trust hopes to benefit from Andrew’s wisdom and experience from a career that has spanned four local authorities and always involved looking beyond the organisation to work in partnership with others, including a large amount of change management and many policy and structural changes, through times of growth and retrenchment.

Rodney Hogg:

Rodney is the Chairman and MD of a medium-sized independent business, Spinlock Ltd., which manufactures a range of rope holding equipment and self-inflating safety harnesses for all sizes of performance sailing yachts. Sailing is a favourite hobby since childhood.
Rodney has served as a church warden of his village church for nine years and for other periods as Hon. Secretary and as Chairman of its PCC. He sits on the Board of Trustees and executive committee of The Campaign for the Renewal of Sts Thomas Church, Newport responsible for marketing and communications.

Hamid Samiy:

Hamid Samiy has been involved in working with Black and Minority Ethnic communities for many years. He has worked for the Local Criminal Justice Board, Southampton Council and now runs his own company, C 5 Consultancy Ltd which was started with a passion to help BME communities through his experience working with BME communities, marketing and publishing as well as the Criminal Justice System, Community Development and in Community consultations.

We also have a Youth Forum which links into the Board

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