Nick Phillips has joined The Almshouse Association as Chief Executive.
Nick has worked in the Charity Sector for the last 20 years and joins us from Community Impact Bucks, where he was Group Chief Executive. Prior to his last appointment, Nick’s career includes 8 years with the National Trust as a Property Manager, leading and evaluating European grant programmes supporting charities and rural businesses, as well as a selling and letting property, training property companies and setting up a property investment service for banks and pension funds in the commercial sector.
Nick was invited to a Question and Answer session with The Almshouse Association and we have a snippet below:
‘What will you bring to The Almshouse Association?’
“The first and most important aspect for me is to really understand what we do for our members. The Association is there to deliver support to the charities that have the challenging task of running these great communities. I intend to raise the profile of the Association but predominantly raise the profile of the almshouse charities that we are there to support. I do not think nearly enough is known about the value almshouses make to society. With 35,000 people being part of that community, it is a great force and I intend to raise the flag. I feel that the value of almshouses has never been higher with an ageing population, lack of affordability of housing and financial pressures on people that we have yet to see the impact. It is my sense that almshouse charities are leading the way in terms of developing sustainable, healthy communities.”
The full interview will be published in the Almshouses Gazette this Autumn.