One Community
It’s not what we do, but how we do it. All of our Trustees and team members love being part of the Norton Housing & Support community.
Range of Skills
With a varied background, our Trustees bring a wealth of experience in Mental Health care, wellbeing, operations and support.
One Goal
We’re all working towards one goal and that is to provide excellent support and living accommodation for people with mental health needs and/or learning disabilities.
Joanna Fleetwood-Smith
Meet our Trustees
| Meet our CEO…Joanna
How long have you been our CEO? Just over 6 Months! Have you enjoyed your first 6 months at NH&S? Immensely! It has been great getting to know everyone who lives, works, engages and volunteers with us. The openness and kindness I’ve received has been humbling and refreshing. What excites you about coming to work each day? It really has be the people that I work with and the opportunities that we all have to make a real difference in the lives of people who need that bit of extra support. I have so many wonderful people to work and engage with each day! What has been your highlight so far? That’s quite tough actually, there’s been a few! Definitely seeing our New Build Project come to life with fixtures and fittings. In the past week it has been visiting, chatting and laughing with our residents in their homes. Having time with the people we’re here to support reminds you how important our homes and the support we provide is to them. So what are you working on now? Oh well that would be telling secrets! Haha, not really! Actually, it’s all very exciting as we have Frost Court Opening very soon, our 40th Birthday Celebrations to plan and our new Strategic Business Plan to develop, so busy busy busy! Tell us something about you, that we might not know? Hmmmm, well I used to be quite nifty on my feet in a pair of Irish Dancing Shoes occasionally I’d been known as Maid Marion! |
Our Board of Trustees bring a wealth of experience from their respective backgrounds, and use it to hold the organisation to account and ensure that we are operating effectively and achieving our vision to enable people across the Region to live as independently as possible and realise their potential. We are currently looking for new Trustees – see here
Dr. Stephen Fallow
Trustee
Dr Fallow is a retired Consultant Psychiatrist who formerly worked within the Leicestershire Partnership Trust Treatment and Recovery Service treating those with chronic mental health difficulties, mainly psychotic conditions.
Sarah Johnson
Trustee
Sarah is a qualified Occupational Therapist who has worked in the field of general and forensic mental health for over 35 years.
During her career she has managed Therapy Services and worked as a Project Manager on major capital development schemes. Sarah retired from the NHS in March 2016.
Nick Sedgwick
Secretary
Nick is a housing management and policy professional with 35 years’ experience delivering customer focused services, developing communities, driving performance, asset management, developing services and working in partnership. Core to Nick’s career is a focus on supported housing and tackling homelessness. He now operates as a consultant, specialising in advising landlords on supported housing. Nick lives in Leicestershire and has been involved in many community activities including the local parish council, an almshouse charity, the allotment society and the village fete.
Jan Moore
Trustee
Jan Moore is a qualified Social Worker, who has previously worked extensively in the field of mental health for over 20 years, including as a Senior Practice Therapist in the Common Mental Health Problem Service in Leicester, which provides psychological therapies in Primary Care.
Wal Holynski
Chair of Trustees
Wal qualified as a Social Worker in 1978 and has since then, worked across a broad range of providers and services.
During the last eight years of his career he was seconded to the NHS and worked in Leicestershire Primary Care Trusts as a mental health commissioning manager. He retired in 2011.
Lee Price
Trustee
Lee has been a housing professional for 13 years. He worked regionally for Nottingham Community Housing Association across the East Midlands in income collection and tenancy enforcement before joining The Riverside Group 5 years ago. Here he manages budgets, contracts, commercial interests and oversees residential tenancy sustainment across a national care and support team.
Pete Frost
Treasurer
Pete Frost is the Managing Director & Founder of one of the fastest growing digital marketing agencies in Leicestershire. He brings his experience in commercial business to the board.
Vincent Gaten
Vice Chair of Trustees
Vin has been a fundraiser for over 15 years, starting his career in the Laura Centre, before taking up a broad ranging role at Voluntary Action Leicestershire. From there, he moved into the field of Major Gift fundraising at the University of Leicester, and then to a management fundraising role at Uppingham School. Vin has recently joined Bedford School as Director of Development, where he will be leading a team raising philanthropic income for capital projects and bursaries.
Norton Housing & Support values its staff and is proud of their achievements, our staff are what make our service. We believe that our staff team is our greatest asset and the way they are treated is passed on in the way they treat the Service Users. Each staff member is valued for their input, they are highly skilled, supported, trained and experienced.
During our Investors in People accreditation, our assessor noted ‘the level of personal and professional support, flexibility and training [we] extend to everyone to ensure they are happy in their work and provided with the skills, confidence and knowledge to do their job well’.
From our Chief Executive to the front line staff team, everyone is committed to providing excellence and ensuring that all of our Service Users are not just coping, but living!