Angus spent his career in the financial services industry, initially in investment banking with Schroders and Citigroup and then for 15 years in asset management in senior positions with Fidelity International and Schroders. He is a member of an advisory board for a fintech company based in London and, being a very keen oarsman, is a director and Captain of Bewl Bridge Rowing Club. He has lived in the local area with his family, first in Lamberhurst and then Wadhurst, since 1996. He became a trustee for Home-Start South West Kent in 2019, where his wife has been a volunteer for over 15 years, and became Chair in June 2022.

Wendy is Community Development Manager for Imago. She works to support charities in west Kent with advice on legal setup, policies, finance and fundraising. Wendy also manages Imago’s volunteer driving service and its charity shops.

Sandy has spent her professional life working in Education, originally working as a teacher in the primary sector in South East London, and then later in Kent. Many of those years have been spent teaching in the early years foundation stage and Key Stage One( 4-7yrs.). Sandy’s passion for early childhood education and development propelled her into researching different forms of child rearing practices and she spent some time working on a Kibbutz in Southern Israel . Sandy returned to teach at Guy’s hospital school and then left classroom teaching to become an advisory teacher for Kent schools and then a school improvement adviser . This role offered Sandy opportunities to train teachers who were new to the profession, teachers who had moved into different phases of teaching, head teachers, teaching assistants, governors and parents.

Dennis is a retired telecom specialist who has a background in parenting, having been a single parent, step parent and grandfather. He has attended parenting and teenage courses. Dennis has a good knowledge of autistic spectrum disorder. This came about assisting his now 18 year old grandson who is profoundly autistic. Dennis has been involved with the scheme since 2000 mainly with telecoms, computers and lectures on autism. In 2013 invited to become admin volunteer responsible for QA and operational procedures. Dennis became a Trustee in 2017 carrying out the same work.

Mark has just retired after working in the Banking industry for 35 years in largely a Finance and Risk environment. He has served on his daughters Primary School PTA as well on the local golf club committee as a Project Manager.

Jo is a solicitor and in-house General Counsel and Head of Compliance at an insurance company, with wide experience of legal, compliance and governance matters. She has been particularly interested in children’s welfare ever since having her own family.  Jo is also a member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee of a large school. She became a trustee of HSSWK in March 2023.

Jenny’s professional background is in social work and the Court and Tribunal Service. For many years, she worked in the Children and Families Service of an Inner London borough. She was also a Magistrate for 25 years where she served in the Family Court and she was a member of the CAMHS panel of the Mental Health Tribunal. Currently she is a part-time Mental Health Act Associate Manager for the Kent and Medway NHS. Jenny lives in Brenchley with her husband. She has twin daughters and four grandchildren. She was awarded the MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours this year.