• Introduction
• Broadway’s Vision, Mission and Values
• Street to Home, our Impact in 2006
• Strategy 2006-09
• Financial Information, Funders & Partners
• Senior Management and Board
• Resources
• Broadway's History

Senior Management & Board Members

Broadway’s Senior Management
Broadway’s Board Members

Profiles of Senior Management Team

Howard Sinclair

Chief Executive

I joined Broadway in July 2002 as Chief Executive. Prior to July I had spent the previous 4 years working as Director of Mencap Cymru. Based in Cardiff, my role involved developing and leading Mencap Cymru in all aspects of its campaigning, information and service delivery work.

Other positions within human services have included the post of Planning and Policy Manager for Housing and Social Services in Wrexham, Development Manager for learning disability services in the former Clwyd and time spent as a Training Manager. I have also worked in residential homes for older people, community services for people with learning disabilities and in a psychiatric hospital.

As well as leading the work of the organisation, I am also a Board member of Homeless Link, the umbrella organisation for the Homelessness Sector, having chaired their National Advisory Council for 3 years.  I have developed good relations with policy makers in Central and Local Government, as well as with the sector as a whole. 

I enjoy my work here enormously – both in terms of the positive difference we genuinely try to make in people's lives and the creative, committed and skillful people I work with at Broadway.

Helen Giles

Director of Human Resources

I have been working for Broadway since 1986, where I first joined as an administrator. I developed through several different roles - Administration Team Leader, Assistant Director of Central Services, Personnel and Administration Manager before becoming HR Director in 1996 (after receiving support from Broadway to achieve my CIPD professional qualification through our vocational training programme).

I am a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. I have enjoyed a long career history with Broadway because it has always been such a dynamic place to work, presenting new growth and challenges at all stages of its development, while always being driven by and true to our core values.

Through Broadway's consultancy arm, Broadway Futures, my team and I provide external consultancy and HR support and training services to other organisations. I am passionately committed to promoting and supporting the development of best practice in leadership and people management in the not-for-profit sector.

Mark Grant

Director of Services & Deputy Chief Executive

I have been in my current post since 2002, following the merger between HSA and Riverpoint where I had previously been Chief Executive. My career has centred around social needs and my past roles have included the Assistant Manager of the Children’s Unit for Hammersmith and Fulham Social Services, and the Deputy Manager of a direct access project in Vauxhall. I moved into the homelessness sector in 1991, when I joined Centrepoint, first as Deputy Manager in a children’s unit before my role as Care Services Manager.

David Fisher

Director of Services

Prior to the advent of Broadway, I was Director of Services for the Housing Services Agency, and have over 20 years experience of working with vulnerable people in both front line and management positions. At Broadway I was Head of Outreach and Community Services for five years until becoming Director of Services, responsible for Broadway's Housing and Support services in January 2007. I also sit on the Board of the Epic Trust.

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Jennifer Handovsky

Head of Homelessness & Information Services

I started work in the social housing / homelessness field 20 years ago as a Housing Management trainee for the London Borough of Hackney. I went on to undertake a number of jobs in local authority and health authority housing departments, and for a housing association.

I joined Broadway (then HSA) in 1994 as the Clearing House Team Leader. I went on to fulfil a number of roles, including a spell as a Housing Team Leader, service delivery policy work and Head of Service Development. My current role involves overseeing the functions of CHAIN, information provision, as well as research, service delivery quality and user involvement. I am also a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing. Outside of work I am involved in developing our local playground and a new childrens' centre.

Alison Luker

Head of Matrix Services

I have a background in supported housing, including both policy work and housing management. I have worked for the National Housing Federation, London and Quadrant Housing Trust, Elim Housing Association and Knightstone Housing.

I have a post graduate qualification in Housing Studies from the University of Bristol and am a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Cathryn Oldman

Head of Fundraising & Communications

I decided to join the voluntary sector after graduating in Law from Bristol University. My first job enabled me to gain over four years experience in fundraising and project management with the expedition charity Raleigh International, where I worked in the charity’s youth at risk department. This position also afforded the opportunity to travel and work in developing countries. I joined what was then Riverpoint in July 2001 as Fundraising and Development Manager which has lead onto my current position as Head of Fundraising and Communications at Broadway.

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Profiles of Board Members

Ian Faulkner

Chair of Board

Ian was appointed in September 2005. He has many years' experience in management consultancy and is currently the Consulting Director of the Metaskil Group, which provides change management, leadership development and support services to financial service and public sector organisations.

Dean Stokes

Deputy Chair

Dean has spent most of his career to date in government. Currently he is Head of Strategy and Policy at the London Borough of Camden dealing with environment, regeneration and culture. He was previously a senior policy analyst at HM Treasury specialising in public services productivity and delivery.  He also has a background in international development and the economies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, having worked at the Department for International Development and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

David Newlyn, Treasurer

David has been working at a senior level (mainly in Finance and Company Secretarial functions) within the Trade Union movement for some years. He is currently Director of Finance for the Public and Commercial Services and Union.

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The other members of the Board are:

David Francis

David is a chartered surveyor and currently works for East Thames Housing Association as the Head of Development for Outer London and Essex. Previously David was the lead policy advisor on community cohesion and neighbourhood renewal at the Department for Culture Media and Sport where he also provided advice on sport facilities strategy and in particular the new Wembley National Stadium. David has been a Broadway Board member since April 2002 and has also worked as a volunteer for Childline and Raleigh International.

Rebecca Carpenter

Rebecca is currently working in the Social Exclusion Unit. She leads a project looking at Young Adults with Troubled Lives. She started her civil service career working in the Planning Directorate of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and prior to that she was Millennium Plus Project Manager for Shelter. She has also been a consultant working with local authorities and RSLs on various strategies and business plans and a project worker in a heavy drinkers' hostel.

Virginia Jay

Virginia is a lawyer who specialises in employment relations and discrimination law. Her practice covers both contentious and non-contentious work with particular expertise in employment contract disputes, business restructuring and equal opportunity issues including gender pay equity and flexible work arrangements. Virginia is a keen supporter of the community sector, providing advice and acting on a bono basis for a number of charitable organisations. Virginia holds a Bachelors of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics and is currently completing her Master of Laws.

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Nick Cattermole

Nick Cattermole is a chartered management accountant. He has worked in higher education for a number of years, and is currently Director of Finance at the Royal College of Art. He has served as a Borough Councillor in Lambeth for 15 years, and was Mayor of the Borough in 1997. He will be retiring from the Council at the next election in 2006.

Dominic O'Rourke

Dominic is a Chartered Surveyor and Development Manager at Land Securities Plc. He has specialised in property development for the past six years, and is currently involved in a major city centre development project in Cardiff . Prior to working for Land Securities Dominic was a Development Surveyor with a plc property developer in Manchester.

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