Kerry qualified as a nurse, then as a midwife, completing a commission in the nursing branch of the Royal Air Force as a first career move. While living in Europe, she took the opportunity to diversify into the management of small businesses in travel and insurance for a few years but later returned to the NHS to continue as a professional midwife.
Driven by a passion to help improve standards in social care, and concerned about working conditions in the NHS, Kerry ultimately switched careers and has since held diverse posts in the sector, including training and assessing carers, and in the management of residential care homes and domiciliary care settings. She has managed a start-up care franchise for a well known provider, and also an inspector in the Care Quality Commission driven by a passion to improve quality and compliance. This later led to working for a large international company supporting clusters of large residential and nursing homes.
Currently, now approaching retirement, Kerry still acts as a compliance officer and trainer for a growing national home care franchise network. She enjoys travel, dog walking, visiting the coast, sewing and amateur dramatics.
Member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) London West Area Meeting, Local Meeting Westminster. Trustee of Swarthmore Care Home since 2022.
I am originally from New Zealand and have lived in the UK for the past 40 years.
For the past 35 years I have produced pitches for financial institutions including investment banks and boutique financial advisors.
Nicki has a BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies and a diploma in Marketing (ACIM).
She qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant after her degree and became a Fellow (FCGMA) soon after. Nicki then spent more than 20 years in the commercial sector (Express Foods, Grand Metropolitan and Diageo) in differing finance roles before moving into consultancy project work, becoming a mum of 2 boys and doing lots of volunteering.
Nicki has been heavily involved in her local Church as a Trustee/Treasurer and spent years, when the boys were young, in the Scout movement as a Beaver Leader, Secretary, Treasurer and parent helper. She was active on all school PTA committees, including being Treasurer, and was an age group leader for Lighthouse holiday club for years.
Nicki is still an active volunteer at Young Theatre – a local theatre group run by its’ young members – as a licensed chaperone, a fundraiser and an adult mentor to the treasurer. She is also on the committee for Creative Partnerships Beaconsfield charity who have created a well-being Mosaic Trail in the town.
Nicki is interested in sport (mainly watching these days), travelling and eating/drinking wine from all around the world. She also loves the creative arts, especially live theatre.
Geetha has extensive experience in Finance, with more than 25 years in the commercial and charity sectors and will be taking up a new role of Director of Finance at St Luke’s Hospice in November. She has worked as a Finance Director and Operations at Age UK east London and Finance Director at Trinity Homeless Group for the past 15 years and has also worked for Mind previously. Geetha has also worked for Arthur Anderson in Columbo as well as Diageo, Air Products plc and Musgrave in the UK, across various financial roles. She qualified as a Chartered Management accountant and became an ACMA in 1997 before obtaining an MBA degree from University of Lincolnshire in 2001. She is passionate about providing hope and a good quality of life for the vulnerable elderly and children. Whilst interested in the creative arts she also enjoys travelling and making various cuisines from different parts of the world. She is a trustee of Social Investment Housing and was involved in fundraising for a school via their Parents’ Association.
My background is in Mental Health. I specialise in the care of people with dementia.
I worked with Oxford Mental Health Trust and then spent 20 years in the Charity world, helping to found 3 Charities ; YoungDementia UK, Daybreak and YoungDementia UK Homes.
I worked as an Independent Advocate for people with dementia across Oxfordshire. I have a teaching qualification and provided training in Care Homes, Nursing Homes and hospitals. I was Vice Chair of the Community Health Council (the government of the day decided to disband this incredibly useful resource and replace it with nothing vey much.)
I worked as a Bereavement Counselor with Sir Michael Sobel House in Oxford for many years. I have been a trustee of the Alzheimers’ Society, East House (a Quaker housing society) and the charities mentioned above.
For the last 11 years since my middle daughter and her three young children came to join our household I have been unexpectedly busy!
Member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) London West Area Meeting, Local Meeting Brentford and Isleworth. Trustee of Swarthmore Care Home since 2019.
In work I am a social worker within Adult Social Services latterly within a mental health team. I have also worked within Learning Disability Team. In training I undertook a specialism in Autism.
Prior to this I worked in residential work with adults for over twenty years. First with people with a learning difficulty, and later with those recovering from a mental illness.
As a trustee of Swarthmore, I bring over two decades of experience as an NHS physiotherapy assistant. My specialization in falls prevention and expertise as a postural stability instructor have equipped me with a deep understanding of the physical well-being of the elderly residents of Swarthmore.
My commitment to the Quaker values of Integrity, equality, and community further enriches my ability provide person-centered support, ensuring the highest standards of care for all residents.
Marilyn, an experienced HR professional with a strong background in multiple sectors, including healthcare, currently working as the Head of HR in the education sector.
She has completed CIPD level 5 and is currently working towards level 7. In her free time, she enjoys watching movies and spending quality time with her family.
Jane qualified as a learning disability nurse in 1988, working for 30 years in mental health and learning disability services. After several years as a senior manager responsible for several residential homes in Bucks, she moved into learning and development. It was through this role that she first became involved with Swarthmore over 12 years ago.
Jane’s specialist teaching subjects are safeguarding adults, mental capacity & best interests, and deprivation of liberty safeguards.
Jane has a love of cricket, has been Chair of her local club for 10 years and is currently developing teams for women and adults with disabilities.
Jane has a passion for ensuring people are treated in a way that meets their current needs while considering their past interests, choices, values and beliefs. She has recently taken early retirement to care for her father who has the early stages of vascular dementia and who enjoys respite care at Swarthmore.
Beth remembers being sent to do community work in the 6th form at her boarding school which was in a Nursing home and never forgot the experience.
She trained as a Social Worker in 1978 and took her first mental health post in 1980. Beth has worked in 7 social service departments, 5 community mental health teams and 2 housing associations as a social worker and a trainer nearly always specialising in older people’s mental health. In 1999 she became training officer to the Dementia Unit at Oxford Brookes University a great job, it was one of a national strategy to create Dementia Services Development Centres across the UK & Ireland, which sadly failed due to the lack of financial support. She then became a specialist dementia trainer, creating bespoke programmes for housing staff, nurses, day centres, G.P.’s, nursing homes, residential care, domiciliary staff, and family carers.
In 2009 Beth felt she was too far removed from practice and returned to working in the Community Mental Health Team in Towcester. Since that time, she has done both part-time which has kept her in touch with the world of care.
She officially retired from Social Work in 2022 and from training in 2024. Beth is a Trustee for Dementia Active and has recently signed up as an Advocate with Voiceability.
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