Foundation Committee
The ultimate responsibility for The Jersey Cheshire Home lies with the Foundation Committee.
The Foundation Committtee is made up of local residents from all walks of life and meets at monthly intervals to ensure that the Home is run efficiently, according to relevant regulations and guidelines.
It has appointed a professional management team to take full responsibility for the day to day management of the Home.
This policy ensures that the residents should have a say in the running of Eric Young House, and this is always encouraged. Residents meet weekly and a Duty Officer, who is a member of the Foundation Commitee, usually attends these meetings to ensure that Residents' views and ideas are passed on and acted upon where necessary.
Meet the Committee ...
Kim Averty - Chairman
Kim Averty moved to Jersey in 1983 to work as an accountant. She later became a Financial Director of a local Hotel Group for 10 years before giving up work in 1998.
When she first came to Jersey, Kim volunteered at the Jersey Cheshire Home, helping take the residents swimming at Mont a l’Abbe prior to the Hydrotherapy Centre opening at Eric Young House. Many years later in 2003, she rekindled her relationship with the Cheshire Home and volunteered her services and time once more.
Kim is also the Secretary of the Alzheimer’s Society in Jersey and helps at Mont a l’Abbe school one morning a week. Once a month she is a ‘roundsman’ for the Trinity Parish Newsletter. In her spare time, Kim enjoys yoga, tennis, reading and watching television.
Jim Hopley - Vice Chairman
Jim was born in Plymouth and educated at Sutton High School, Nottingham University and the Co-operative College (Stanford Hall.) Jim moved to Jersey in 1979. As a long-term carer Jim has first hand experience of assisting at the Jersey Cheshire Home.
He has pursued a lifetime career in the Co-operative Movement rising to become the Chief Executive of the Channel Islands Co-operative Society (one of the Islands' largest commercial companies and employers).
Jim is an ex Vingtenier, Constable's Officer and Road's Inspector for the Parish of St Peters. He is the Vice Chairman of Shopmobility St Helier, Vice Chairman and Press Officer of the Huntington's Disease Association (Jersey), and a Committee Member of the Jersey Island Fairtrade Group and the Retail Sub-Committee of the Chamber of Commerce.
Beverley Le Cuirot
Beverley Le Cuirot is a Fellow, Chartered Marketer and Immediate Past Chairman of the Jersey Branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing; she also currently serves as Chairman of Young Enterprise Jersey.
With 30 years' experience in international financial, B2B and retail marketing, business development, service delivery and organisational leadership; she spent 16 years in Jersey's Finance Industry where she was Director of Marketing at Jersey Finance, and prior to that a Director at Standard Chartered Bank Jersey.
In April 2008 she established Immediate Impact Limited, her own Strategic Consultancy, along with the Immediate Impact Business Network primarily for SMEs and Not-for-Profit Organisations looking for contacts and a business support infrastructure. She now works as a Strategic Consultant at Board Level; and also as a Non-Executive Director. She joined the Jersey Cheshire Home Foundation Committee in 2008.
Graham Jennings
Graham Jennings is the former Chief Executive of Jerseys’ Health and Social Services Department. He brings with him experience of health and social care provision that spans four decades. He holds a masters degree in law, is a qualified teacher and health care practitioner.
Having spent the first half of his career in the UK gaining a breadth of experience, he returned to Jersey in 1985 taking on the Chief Executives role in 1996. He retired following major heart surgery in 2002 and now spends his time travelling; as a member of the Trust Foundation Committee; as a keen member of Rotary Club de La Manche; and, on behalf of Jerseys’ Law Society, he chairs disciplinary committees which consider the professional conduct of local lawyers against whom complaints have been made.
Gwyn Llewellin
Gwyn was born in India but moved to Wales in 1946. He was educated in PontyPool, Gwent, before starting his Medical Education at Guy's Hospital Medical School, London.
Gwyn qualified and practised as a G.P in Gravesend, Kent for 10 years before moving to Jersey in 1976. In Jersey, Gwyn joined a General Practice in St Helier and in 1988 was appointed Senior Clinical Medical Officer (Deputy M.O.H) by the States Public Health Committee. Gwyn retired in 2002. In May 2002, Gwyn joined the Cheshire Home Management Committee and is now a member of the Foundation Committee.
Pam Nisbet
Pam holds various honorary positions working in the community and with a number of commercial businesses and joined the Jersey Cheshire Home Foundation Committee in 2006.
Alain Thebault - Secretary
Alain was born in Jersey in 1952 into a large family, keen on its French heritage. He obtained Honours Degrees in both Pysics and Experimental Psychology before joining the teaching profession.
With his wife and young family, Alain return to Jersey in 1982 to take up the appointment of Head of Science at De La Salle College. After a period of 30 years, Alain has now retired from full time teaching and now teaches part-time and combines this with being a part-time student, studying Astro-Physics with the Open University.
Greg Branch - Treasurer
Greg Branch has been the Honorary Treasurer of the Jersey Cheshire Home since 1991. He is a Partner of Deloitte and is married with three children.
Greg graduated with a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1980 and became a qualified Accountant in 1983 and a FCA in 1985. His interests are golf, walking, gardening and historical buildings.
Tania Reed
Tania was born in Jersey in 1959. Worked as a ceramic artist for 10 years. Has been married for 26 years and has two grown up daughters. She held the position of Centenier for the Parish of St Lawrence from 2005, and having completed her term of office at the end of 2008, she is now a rates assessor.
Tania has been a volunteer guide for Durrell for the past 8 years. After recently being invited to join the Foundation Committee, she is delighted to be able to help contribute towards the Committee’s objectives.
Danielle Sowden
Danielle is Jersey born and was educated at Jersey College for Girls. After gaining a law degree at Nottingham University, a masters in law at Downing, Cambridge and being called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, London, Danielle returned to Jersey in 1987. She then qualified as an Advocate and worked in Jersey legal practices until 2005, when she took early retirement due to ill health.
Danielle is presently the Chairman of the MS Society and enjoys liaising with the residents at the Jersey Cheshire Home as Duty Officer. Her hobbies include reading, classical music, and travelling as much as she can.
Peter Shirreffs
Peter joined the Royal Bank of Scotland in Aberdeen in 1973 and after holding various senior managerial and executive positions in the UK, came to Jersey in 1992 as Managing Director of The Royal Bank of Scotland (Jersey ) Ltd.
He retired early from Banking in 2009 whilst still young enough to pursue other interests, namely golf, boating and travel. Peter is a past President and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers; a Judge for the Jersey Enterprise Awards; and a Consultant for several businesses operating in Jersey.
He has always admired the work of the Jersey Cheshire Homes and looks forward to organising the Annual Golf Day, which will be kindly sponsored by Hawksford International in 2011 and 2012.
