Healthy Living Wessex Board of Directors
The Board of Directors remains one of our greatest assets. Many have remained with the company since its inception as a Big Lottery funded project and they continue to support, inform, influence and scrutinize the company developments.
Each Board member contributes their time and skills at no cost to the company and as such we are extremely grateful to them. Their wealth of knowledge on the developing agendas, opportunities and community planning targets has supported Healthy Living Wessex fundamentally and allowed it to be at the forefront of community health and well-being developments. Their combined expertise covers all sectors of service provision and therefore makes us best placed to deliver services across sectoral boundaries. They are also very supportive of innovative, entrepreneurial service delivery and a huge thank you goes to the board for their trust and faith in the team.
Jenny Stiling - Director and Chair
Having a background in the public sector and education, and in her work as a self employed funding consultant, Jenny has a far-reaching appreciation of the wider political and health agendas.
She was part of the team that put together the ideas for the original Weymouth and Portland Healthy Living Project and has a useful understanding of community planning, local authority and PCT decision making procedures.
Jenny brings a wealth of voluntary sector experience to the company, is Vice Chair of Governors of Weymouth College, was Chair of Dorset Patient Public Involvement Forum and of Weymouth Community Volunteers.
Kevin Dey - Director
Kevin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), and holds the Diploma in Management Studies. He was previously a Part Time Lecturer in Business Planning at Southampton Solent University and has been Chair of the Southern Region Housing Directors Group.
Kevin, who is currently the chair of the Dorset Branch of the CIH, was appointed Managing Director at Weymouth & Portland Housing in April 2006 after working for the company since it was set up and brings an understanding of running businesses with a £10 million turnover. As well as running services which focus on supporting health improvement for tenants, he understands community consultation and the importance of involving people in the decision making process.
Kevin is an active member of the Local Community Planning groups, an advocate for improving health in the workplace and has an awareness of the wider political environment.
Linda Screen - Director
Linda is a Director of Into-Action, a consultancy specialising in strategic and corporate policy and business development. Her areas of expertise bring to Healthy Living Wessex an understanding of, strategic partnership development and management including Local Strategic Partnerships, development of community strategies, project management, risk management, sustainable development and staff and organisational development.
Her membership of the Weymouth board of governors and being a Director of Culture South West enables the company to understand both the local and regional agendas.
Anne Bray - Director
Anne comes from the private sector with a background in Quality Management, performance and personnel management and customer relationship management. Has been the Dorset coordinator for the Patient participation forum and is now developing the Dorset Link programme with Dorset County Council, Dorset PCT and Help and Care. Anne's expertise brings an understanding of the private sector, understanding of community consultation and engagement as well as Quality control, Quality assurance and performance management.
Debra Pattinson - Director and Company Secretary
Debra has worked for over 20 years in project management and Health Improvement in community and employment settings. Her main roles being in management of Local Government and Health Service Partnership Development, environmental health and community development encouraging health improvement in the most vulnerable communities. This experience allows her to understand health improvement from the GP and PCT perspective as well as from the community and business perspective.