The Board of Management

Richard Farrell (1999) (Chair)

Richard Farrell is a retired director of an investment management company. He is a long standing trustee of Deafness Research, the medical charity for the deaf and hard of hearing. He has been a Blewbury parish Councillor for over 20 years and since 1995 has represented Blewbury and Upton on the Vale of the White Horse District Council where he is a member of the Council’s Executive Committee.

Jaqui Hepher (2004) (Vice Chair)

Jaqui, who grew up in the Vale of White Horse, has spent most of her working life in the travel industry. Jaqui has been involved in the tenants movement for many years and, whilst living in Bristol, was Secretary and then Chair of the Ashley Area Housing Committee (the equivalent to our tenant forums). She has also been a Chair of the Estate Management Board in the St Pauls Area of the city. Jaqui returned to the Vale in 2000 and moved into a Vale property in Grove in 2003.

Geoffrey Higham (1998)

Geoffrey has held a wide range of company directorships and has considerable experience of the building and construction industry. He has been Chairman of the Rugby Group, a Director of Pirelli and the Try Group and he was Chairman of the Building Centre. Geoffrey has lived in Abingdon since the late 1980s.

Gareth Reynolds (2001)

Gareth is a qualified accountant who has worked in the distribution, computer and steel industries.

Nigel King (2000)

Nigel is a managing partner of Housing & Support Partnership, a housing and social care consultancy, based in Witney. He has worked in social housing for twenty years and was previously the Chief Executive of a national housing association. He has lived in Oxfordshire for twelve years.

Frederick Russell (2004)

Frederick has been a tenant in Longworth since 1977. He gained a Higher Commercial Certificate in Economics from the London School of Economics and went on to teach Economics and English in the Army Education Corps. Since then he has had various jobs and was a licensed Hackney carriage driver when he retired. Fred has been involved with the Association since the beginning and hopes to carry on the good work that his wife Barbara did as a Board member for 10 years before she passed away in 2004.

Brian Edmonds (2006)

Brian began his career by training as a carpenter. After two years in national service he returned to the construction industry, where he worked until 1992 in a variety of positions from trades foreman through to site manager.  Brian is a life-long Salvationist and in 1992 made a career change to train as a minister of religion. His last appointment was being in charge of the Salvation Army in Abingdon. He has lived in a Vale Housing Association property since 2002.

Simon Lindley (2007)

Simon is a Financial Services Industry Consultant and a Sovereign Housing Group independant Board Member.

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