Care & Repair England set up the national older people’s housing champion’s network to:
- raise awareness of the scale and nature of the impact of poor and unsuitable housing on older people’s health and wellbeing
- influence decision making and bring about improvements in policy & practice
Local champions share practice and keep an eye on the ground in their areas on housing and ageing issues, help to coordinate and stimulate local action and act as a source of local intelligence. Care & Repair England offers local champions support on this.
Local champions are: –
- East: Diane Minns (Cambridge) dianaminns@hotmail.com and Peter Coeling (corresponding member)
- East Midlands: John Simmons (Derbyshire) jisimmons@btinternet.com
- London: Ellen Lebethe (Lambeth) elebethe@talktalk.net
- North East: Alan Gowers,algowers@gmail.com Esther Salaman esther.s@lineone.net and Vera Bolter (corresponding member) – Newcastle Elders http://www.elderscouncil.org.uk/
- North West: Joan Rutherford (Manchester) joan.crystall@btinternet.com –
- South East: Marjory Broughton marjorybroughton@gmail.com and Julia Pride juliapride@gmail.com – South East Forum on Ageing (SEEFA) http://www.seefa.org.uk/
- South West: Tony Watts OBE tony@hartleywatts.co.uk
- Yorkshire and the Humber: Bill Rollinson MBE billrollinson@aol.com http://www.opforum.org.uk/ and John Welham johnwelham@hotmail.co.uk , http://www.opforum.org.uk/
- West Midlands: Anne Bailey m.bailey1234@btinternet.com and Sue Gillespie sueg52@aol.com
For details of the skills and interests of the local champions see Older peoples housing champions skills and interests January 2019
For information on the meetings of the network see Summary of meetings Older Peoples Champions – January 2019
For further information about the network contact info@careandrepair-england.org.uk
