Homeshare International is governed by a group of trustees who are invited to serve by the Board.

Trustees are drawn from many of the countries where homeshare operates and are chosen on the basis of their expertise as practitioners, researchers and administrators. Members of the Homeshare Network are also invited to nominate members of the Board.

Trustees are supported by a group of International Ambassadors and by various ad hoc working groups.

Read more about governance and finances.

Patron

The Baroness Neuberger DBE

President

Professor Malcolm Johnson, Director, International Institute on Health and Ageing, UK

Vice-president

Professor Anne-Lotte Kreickemeier, Founder of Wohnen für Hilfe in Germany

Ambassadors

Carmel Hurst OAM, Australia

Professor Mariano Sanchez, Spain

Hilary Todd, UK

Rhian Bradley, Australia

Trustees

Cheryl Snider, (Chair), HomeShare Canada

Cheryl succeeded Rhian Bradley as Chair in 2018. She managed a homeshare programme in Canada, developed an informal network and a HomeShare Canada website to help coordinate and disseminate information. Cheryl has also been a homesharer. She has had a career in local government, non-profit organisations and for-profit companies.

Beris Campbell OAM, Homeshare Programme Consultant and Director, Homeshare Australia and New Zealand Association (HANZA), Australia.

With a background in social work, Beris founded the successful homeshare programme in Melbourne and plays a key role in HANZA. A Trustee since 2009, Beris was awarded the OAM for services to homeshare in 2011.

Kirby Dunn, Director, HomeShare Vermont, USA

Kirby has been Executive Director of HomeShare Vermont since 2000 and has many years’ experience in housing and social services. HomeShare Vermont has been running for over 30 years and has provided the model and inspiration for many other programmes.  Kirby also runs the National Shared Housing Resource Center – the Homeshare Network in the USA.

Deborah Fox, Policy and Development (Homeshare) Shared Lives Plus, UK

Deborah has worked for shared Lives Plus since 2015 as the national lead for Homeshare UK, the national association. Over the past two years she has both driven and supported significant expansion of homeshare across the UK. She has worked in the voluntary sector for 20 years, leading on the delivery of multi-agency projects.

Régis de Kerautem, President, 1Toit2Ages, Belgium

Régis joined the Board in 2018. He co-founded 1Toit2Ages with Claire, his wife, in 2009 and supports the charity as its President. Under their leadership, homeshare has spread from modest beginnings in Brussels to cover most of Belgium’s large towns and cities.  His day job is in consumer protection in Europe, a field he has specialised in for the past ten years.

Elizabeth Mills OBE, (Honorary Director and Vice Chairman), UK

Elizabeth took over the running of HI in 2007 when our late founder, Nan Maitland, retired. With a background in the voluntary sector, Elizabeth ran the medical research charity Research into Ageing and merged it with Help the Aged (now Age UK). She was awarded the OBE for services to medical research and has two honorary doctorates.  As well as running HI, she chairs the board of trustees of the Creative Dementia Arts Network, and she is a genealogist.

Alain de Penfentenyo, President, ensemble2générations, France

Alain is a civil engineer working as a senior executive in a consulting engineering firm. After 15 years in Africa, he is currently in charge of projects in Europe and Central Asia. In 2006 he and his wife Typhaine founded ensemble2générations in Paris and he now supports the charity as its President.

Marlene Welzl, WohnBuddy (formerly WGE!-Gemeinsam Wohnen), Austria

Marlene became a trustee in September 2017. She works for the Austrian Foreign Ministry, preparing speeches and background papers for officials and the minister. But she has also found time to set up and help run a new award-winning homeshare programme in her native Vienna. In addition to supporting conventional homeshare matches, the programme also places students in retirement communities.

Cyril Wood, (Honorary Treasurer), Accountant, UK

A qualified Chartered Accountant, Cyril has had a varied career, in both the private and voluntary sectors. He is the Chairman of The Association of Church Accountants and Treasurers as well as acting for a number of charities as a trustee and honorary treasurer.

National advisors

UNITED KINGDOM:  Alex Fox, Chief Executive, Shared Lives Plus and Chair, UK Homeshare Association

AUSTRALIA: Beris Campbell, Homeshare Australia and New Zealand Association (HANZA)

AUSTRIA: Marlene Welzl, WohnBuddy (formerly WGE!-Gemeinsam Wohnen)

BELGIUM: Claire de Kerautem, untoit2ages

CANADA: Cheryl Snider

FRANCE: Typhaine de Penfentenyo, ensemble2générations

SPAIN:  Alfonso Fajardo Barreras, Solidarios, Madrid

USA: Kirby Dunn, HomeShare Vermont