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Last update:
19 August 2010

Board of Directors

Trustees serve on a Board of Directors and are Company Directors. They bring a wealth of experience and skills providing corporate strategic leadership to Wessex Community Action. Board members are elected annually at the AGM.

The Board consists of an Honorary  President and  trustees. The Board meets six times a year and receives regular progress reports and plays an important role in supporting staff. Board members may also serve on the Finance & Audit, Human Resources and Governance sub committees. Trustees have an annual Away Day.

Profiles:

Norman Barter   -   Chair &  Member of Finance & Audit sub committee

Norman Barter joined the Board of Directors in 2002 and was Chair of the Finance & Audit sub committee prior to becoming Chair of the Board in 2006.  Until recently he farmed his family's long standing watercress business in Bishopstone.  He is now semi-retired running two small lakes for fly fishing for adults and fishing lessons for children.  He pursues a number of voluntary activities locally including being a trustee of the Old Wordsworthians' Association of which he is a former President, and is Chairman of the Village Hall Committee in Bishopstone where he and his wife continue to live.  

 

Peter Curbishley   

 

Peter Curbishley joined the Board of Directors in 2009.   Peter joined the Board in 2009.  He has worked in a variety of management positions for the Rural Development Commission (RDC) in Salisbury; the Single Regeneration Partnership in Southampton and most recently for Hampshire County Council.  He has considerable experience of grant funding and economic development in both a rural and inner city environment.  At the RDC he managed the programme of village hall funding, the rural transport fund and for a time, the training workshops.  He is a chartered town planner and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Royal Town Planning Institute.  For 10 years he was chair of the Amnesty International Salisbury group. 

 

Sue Nettle  

Sue Nettle joined the Board of Directors in September 2008 nominated by Salisbury Samaritans of whom she has been a volunteer for two years.  Sue works as a Community Nurse in South Wiltshire and is married with four grown up daughters.  She and husband Jeremy have lived in Salisbury for 24 years and were the 744th mayor and mayoress.

Mary Paisey   Member of the Human Resources Committee

Mary Paisey has been a Board member since 1992 and was Chair from 1997 to  2004.  Mary was formerly Headteacher of what is now Leehurst Swan school.  An active member of St Francis Church, she has been heavily involved in the voluntary sector since retirement.  She is Chairman of the Trustees of both Salisbury Women's Refuge and the Love Lane Friendship Club and a former Chairman of Churches Together in Salisbury.  She is a school governor and a committee member of Agenda 21.  She has been involved with the Salisbury-Saintes twinning since its beginning.   She is married with 5 children and 9 grandchildren and lives in Salisbury.  Mary was awarded an MBE in the June 2010 Birthday Honours for services to the community in Salisbury. 

Gordon Pardy

Gordon Pardy joined the Board of Directors in April 2010. He worked in a variety of management positions for QinetiQ Ltd, finally as Account Director for Heavy Aircraft business with the MoD, until he retired in 2008. He is Chairman of the local charity Salisbury Trust for the Homeless, which accommodates and supports 32 people in shared houses. He is also Chairman of Sarum U3A, with a membership in excess of 300. He has many years of experience in project management and property acquisition and management. He is married with two children and five grandchildren and lives in Laverstock.

Anita Pheby 

Anita Pheby joined the Board of Directors in 2009, and is Wessex Community Action’s nominated governor to Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. She was previously an elected governor, serving the patient/carer constituency. She has worked in education, mostly as a university lecturer. She set up the first European Studies degree course in Britain , and has worked in Adult Education and as a tutor and counsellor for the Open University. She is also a Director of a charity which provides mental health advocacy and training services. For many years, Anita cared for her parents with inoperable cancer, and also for a child hospitalised in London for many months. She is married to a professor of epidemiology. They live in Harnham, and have three children and three grandchildren.

Greg Read  Member of the Human Resources sub committee

Brigadier Greg Read has been a Board member since 2005.  He retired from the Army in 1984 and then worked as Chief Executive officer of The Vintners Company until further retirement in 1996.  He is Chairman of South Wilts Mencap and is a member of the South Wiltshire Learning Disability Development Group and a member of Wiltshire County Council's Local Partnership Board for people with learning disabilities.  Greg lives in Broad Chalke.

Dr Peter Wrighton

Peter Wrighton has been a Board member since 2001.  He is a scientist by profession and is currently managing, on behalf of QinetiQ, delivery of a multi-million pound contract for the operation of Boscombe Down and twenty other Ministry of Defence sites providing test, evaluation and training services to the MoD.  Peter is a keen sportsman, still playing veterans hockey for Salisbury.  He is heavily involved in sport administration in a voluntary capacity as Chairman of the local sports council, Salisbury Area Sports in order to increase opportunity for participation in sport locally. He is keen to develop links between the local sports community and other voluntary organisations in South Wiltshire.   Peter is married with two daughters who are also keen hockey players. 

Honorary Officer:

President       Patrick Paisey

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