Board of Trustees and Key Staff
Board of Trustees
David Sykes – Chair
David Sykes has a wealth of experience in both the public and private sectors and as a strategic marketing consultant for PWc. After 25 years in the private sector in senior commercial roles and as Managing Director for a £30M manufacturing business David established a consultancy business.
During his 15 years as an independent consultant he has undertaken commercial and commissioning assignments for 25 health and local authority clients including the Dept. of Health, regulators and commissioning organisations. Over the last few years these assignments have focused on health and social care integration.
David is a CEDR accredited mediator skilled in stakeholder management and contract negotiation. An accredited practitioner in managing successful programmes (MSP). A MBA graduate of Warwick University who now acts as a mentor to Executive MBA students. 5 years experience as a trustee & chair of trustees for Coram Life Education West Midlands.
Tapshum Pattni MBE
Tapshum has worked in Social Care with both adults and children for 40 years. She worked for Birmingham city council as the Social Work Service Director before she recently retired. She has also worked extensively with the voluntary sector and Health Service, and has been a Trustee Director of a housing association and a small charity.
She has been involved on the National forum Via the work she has done for the Association of Directors of Social Care. Professionally she is a qualified Social Worker, and a Manager having completed her masters in social work and MBA in public sector management at Birmingham University.
Tapshum is passionate about developing services for older people and developing community-based models of service that would meet the needs of the local communities.
Sharifah Mussa
Paul Todman
Grace Hampson
Jane Egerton
Rosie Harvey
Key Staff
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Laura Salugaite |
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Karen Yates |
Louise Crowther |
The Information and Advice Team |
The Memory Services Team |
The Wellbeing Team |
The Independence at Home Team |
The Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme (ENNS for short) works with community assets within the Edgbaston Constituency to ensure that citizens have activities on their doorstep which help them connect to their communities and lead independent, happy and healthy lives.
We also work closely with local Social Work teams to help them access local services and activities for the people they support. Edgbaston NNS has two key strands of focus: Adults aged 18 - 49 with additional needs and adults 50 +
In Edgbaston , the NNS is delivered through Age UK Birmingham being the Lead facilitator, in partnership with Gateway Family Services.
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