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Terrie Alafat CBE

Chair of Trustees

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Terrie retired in 2019 as the chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), the independent voice for housing and the home of professional standards and was appointed as Chair of Trustees for Hestia in December 2018. Before joining CIH in 2015 Terrie was director of housing in the then-Department for Communities and Local Government, with overall policy responsibility for the supply and management of housing across all tenures, housing growth, and homelessness prevention and support. As part of this, she also led on sponsorship of the Homes and Communities Agency. She has worked in the civil service covering various housing policies and programmes since 2003. 

Published: 4th April, 2017

Updated: 22nd September, 2020

Author: Josh McLean

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Anil Shenoy

Trustee Treasurer & Vice Chair

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Anil Shenoy was appointed a Trustee in September 2015 and is Chair of the Finance and Fundraising Sub Committee. He is currently Head of UK Institutional at a global investment manager with responsibilities for managing relationships with large pension schemes and insurance companies as well as developing investment solutions for them. Prior to this, he was an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he worked on a range of audits and projects for UK insurance companies.

Published: 25th April, 2018

Updated: 25th March, 2021

Author: Josh McLean

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Vic Rayner

Trustee

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Vic Rayner joined the Hestia board of Trustees in November 2016 and has many years’ experience of working in the voluntary and community sector, with a particular focus on housing, care and support sectors. She spent seven years as the CEO of Sitra – a leading national membership body championing excellence in housing, health, care and support. As CEO, Vic sat on a wide range of governmental and sector wide bodies including DWP, DCLG, CQC and ADASS steering groups.

Vic played a key role in the work that Sitra has been leading in the sector on the connection between health & housing, driving forward strength based working and personalisation. She represented Sitra on the European PUSH network, Housing First European learning group, and was responsible for Sitra’s status as lead partner in a Europe wide programme.

Vic is the independent Chair of the Brighton and Hove Fairness Commission, tackling inequalities and promoting social justice within the locality. She is also a Director of the London Housing Foundation, funding innovation and best practice in homelessness provision. Vic has an MBA (Distinction), MA and BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Published: 26th April, 2018

Author: Josh McLean

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Mike Trup

Trustee

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Mike has some 35 years of international business experience, during which he held management positions with a family company, the international divisions of Fortune 100 companies and most recently grew his own company from start-up to successful exit. ​

Published: 26th April, 2018

Updated: 2nd November, 2018

Author: Josh McLean

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Christina Marriott

Trustee

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Christina is currently the Chief Executive at the Royal Society for Public Health. Following an early career in advertising, for 13 years Christina led the marketing consultancy she established in her 20s.  She was tempted into academia as a research fellow working on health inequalities at the University of Central Lancashire and was seconded to health inspectorates to run a national census of mental health inpatients that investigated ethnicity-based inequalities. 

She moved into the NHS to spearhead a regional, place-based health equity programme before becoming National Lead for Health Inequalities in the then newly-formed NHS England. Her move into the third sector was via the Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Nacro before taking up the Chief Executive role at Revolving Doors Agency.

Christina has served on a significant number of advisory Board including the Ministerial Advisory Board on Female Offenders, the Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Ministerial Advisory Group (RR3) and a Civil Justice Council working party. She chaired the Bradley Report Group and the Health Inequalities Reference Group. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton and was a finalist in the Third Sector Awards Chief Executive of the Year 2019.  Christina joined the board of Trustees at Hestia in December 2018.

Published: 9th August, 2019

Updated: 22nd September, 2020

Author: Marcus Wratten

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Liz Zacharias

Trustee

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Liz is a senior manager and business development professional with many years’ experience in the supported housing and social care sector as a consultant and senior executive. This includes experience of working within a national care and support organisation and as a commissioner of supported housing and independent living services where she developed commissioning strategies for older people, people with mental health and learning disabilities as well as socially excluded groups and rough sleepers. She is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development. Liz also holds a Diploma in Fundraising from the Institute of Fundraising and previously spent five years as the lead on strategic growth for two housing organisations where she secured significant growth through public sector contracts. Liz Joined Hestia as a Trustee in January 2019.

Published: 9th August, 2019

Author: Marcus Wratten

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Lauren Bowes

Trustee

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Lauren is Head of Planning and Coordination within the COVID-19 Task Force at the Cabinet Office, a unit established to deliver the Government’s response to COVID-19. 

Prior to this role, she worked as a strategist within the Home Office where she is responsible for supporting Ministers to develop and deliver the Department’s strategy. Before this, she worked at the Cabinet Office on priority economic and domestic policy commitments, including delivering the Government’s first strategy on loneliness. She joined the Civil Service as a social researcher at the Ministry of Justice following analytics roles within media, publishing and market research companies.

Lauren joined Hestia in March 2020 and is a member of our Digital & IT subcommittee.

Published: 16th June, 2020

Updated: 2nd April, 2021

Author: Marcus Wratten

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Aisling Thompson

Trustee

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Aisling Thompson is a senior manager with over 20 years of experience in healthcare including clinical, operational and commissioning roles in the NHS. She is currently working at the Department of Health and Social Care as Deputy Director – Community Testing Programme. Aisling has a particular interest in quality improvement and has worked in this area in the NHS and defence industry. Aisling has an MBA and is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Aisling joined Hestia in December 2019 and is a member of our Performance Review Committee.

Published: 16th June, 2020

Updated: 2nd April, 2021

Author: Marcus Wratten

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Rebecca Pritchard

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Bex has 30 years’ experience in the social care and homelessness field, and has held senior operational, policy, commissioning and consultancy/ advisory roles in the voluntary sector, local and central government. She started as a volunteer for the Southampton Resettlement Program working alongside people with lived experience in 1989.

She has since worked for Shelter, Centrepoint and Crisis amongst others, led the establishment of the Supporting People program in Surrey and supported other Supporting People teams as an interim manager, run drug and alcohol treatment services and was embedded within the Department of Communities and Local Government as a specialist advisor on youth homelessness and rough sleeping.

Bex is currently having a pause ahead of taking on new opportunities, with current commitments including being a Trustee of Hestia, and member of the NICE Guideline Development Group on integrated health and social care responses for people who are homeless.

Bex joined Hestia in December 2019 and is as a member of our Performance Review Committee.

Published: 16th June, 2020

Updated: 2nd April, 2021

Author: Marcus Wratten

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Liz Meek

Trustee

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Liz chairs Twining Enterprise, a charity helping people with mental health problems into work. She previously had nearly 40 years’ experience in the civil service and was head of the Government Office for London and then the North West delivering policies and programmes, mainly tackling poverty and disadvantage, for 12 Whitehall departments. Liz led the team of officials which created the Mayor of London.

Since leaving the civil service, Liz has been founder chair of the Centre for London - a new think tank, vice chair of Birkbeck college and on a number of boards and commitees, mostly on mental health. She was a member of the London Fairness Commission. She proposed and served on the Schizophrenia Commission.

Liz joined Hestia’s board in October 2020 and sits on the Finance & Fundraising subcommittee.

Published: 4th December, 2020

Author: Marcus Wratten

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