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Associate Consultants - Biographies
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We have a number of associate's with whom we work
with so that we can offer the best service possible to our customers.
Below are some short biographies of our current associates.
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Associate Consultants
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| Simon Alford |
Simon Alford is a CIPFA qualified accountant. His experience includes acting as a Financial Controller, Company Secretary, and Accountant with experience of general ledger implementation and systems administration. As an accountant his experience includes Management, Financial, Committee and Group accounting. He has:
- Experience of Budget and Final Accounts processes in large organisations
- Internal and external audit experience, including systems and regularity audits
- Experience of design and implementation of charts of accounts, coding structures and reports
- Experience of Leaseholder Service Charges accounting , in particular actuals Statements and Signing off the same
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| David Jackson |
David Jackson is an experienced management consultant and trainer – he holds a BSc in Business Operations and Control and a Master’s Degree in Management Science and Operational Research. He holds technical qualifications in Quality Management, Finance and predominantly Project Management, in which field he is a Registered PRINCE2 Practitioner (and an examiner with the main examining body, APMG). His career includes:
- Senior roles in management consultancy and policy research, mainly dealing with public sector clients including the Audit Commission, the European Commission and the TUC
- Senior roles in management consultancy and policy research, mainly dealing with public sector clients including the Audit Commission, the European Commission and the TUC
- Senior roles in management education (Award Director on post-graduate university management courses) and training (programme director with a community safety organisation)
- Chief Executive of a national membership organisation
- CEO and Chief Finance Officer of an employee-owned co-operative
- Trustee and Board member of a voluntary organisation
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| Jay Redgrove |
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Jay previously worked for seventeen years with Wandsworth Borough Council Housing Department gaining experience of working across a range of services. She also has a great deal of experience of consulting with residents on estates with a focus on developing Residents’ Associations and Tenant Management Groups as well as working with groups as an Independent Tenants’ Adviser.
Since 2001 Jay has been involved in a wide range of regeneration initiatives evaluating more than 100 projects and delivering training and support for involving local people in the process through Community Evaluation. She has competently led the evaluation of around twenty Regeneration Schemes including those funded through the Single Regeneration Budget, New Deal for Communities, and Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and is familiar with developing: Baselines; Monitoring Frameworks; Good Practice Toolkits and Forward Strategies.
In addition to evaluation based activities Jay has completed a number of research projects including enquiry into ‘Offending and the prevention of re-offending’ and carried out consultation on subjects ranging from ‘Anti social behaviour’ to ‘Equalities Festivals’. Jay has also worked with the University of London to develop community mapping and consultation strategy in relation to the Building Schools for the Future initiative.
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| Kate Smyth |
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Kate Smyth specialises in providing advice on regeneration, economic development, housing and disabilities issues. From 1992 until 1999 she was a Board Member and the Chair of the Lancashire and Cumbria Regional Committee of Northern Counties Housing Association. She is currently a Board member of Calico Housing (formerly Burnley and Padiham Community Housing). Prior to November 1992, she held a number of senior posts in Local Government including Head of Economic Development and Marketing at Knowsley Borough Council. She graduated from Lanchester Polytechnic with a degree in Urban and Regional Planning (Second Class - Upper Division) in 1977. She is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, the Institute of Economic Development, and the Association of Disabled Professionals.
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| Peter Sutcliffe |
Peter Sutcliffe is a commercially orientated financial accountant who can provide practical support in terms of management consultancy, coaching, training and mentoring. Peter’s prime focus is on the impact of change across the organisation- from the strategic planning implications through to the financial aspects, leadership and motivational skills including conflict management and coaching.
Peter has held senior management positions in industry and in recent years has been helping to ‘transfer knowledge’ and implement best practice within the third market sector for local government, voluntary sector, non-profit charitable organisation, housing, leisure, mental health, ex-prisoners and drug users.
Peter facilitates training (either based on standard modules or tailor made), consultancy and mentoring – from large groups to “One to One’s” –both in the public and private sectors and is a regular lecturer and mentor for Liverpool Universities and the Liverpool Centre for Leadership Development, and is North East Chairman for the Academy for Chief Executives.
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| Amanda Pyper |
 Amanda Pyper is a CIH qualified housing professional and has substantial experience of managing & improving services within the Public and Not for Profit sectors. She became a consultant in 2003 having worked within the housing and support community for over 15 years gaining experience of general needs and supported accommodation whilst working in a number of different environments. Amanda now works with all types of organisations involved in the provision of housing management and/or housing related support services. Her clients range from large national housing providers to small local voluntary groups and from strategic bodies to private companies servicing the sector. Amanda brings enthusiasm and drive along with a track record of successfully meeting challenges from customers, staff, stakeholders and government bodies.
Amanda’s areas of interest lie in achieving Customer Service Excellence through involving customer in services reviews and creating alternative delivery mechanisms. Pre and post Audit Commission Inspection and Supporting People Review work is a specialism, along with Policy and Strategy development and the provision of consultancy services on a range of housing and support related matters.
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| Danny Swan |
| Danny Swan has worked in Social Security and in local authority Social Services finance Departments for much of his working life. He has a unique understanding of the administration of these different areas, the impact they have on the lives of so many people, how they overlap each other and of the restraints and sensitivities involved. Danny offers specialist expertise in all Social Security Benefits, the administration involved with local authority Residential and Home Care charging policies, and training in the action/procedures needed in dealing with Receivership and Appointeeship. He is, in his own right, a Panel Receiver appointed by the Court of Protection. |
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| Steve Harriott |
After graduating from Oxford University with an Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Steve trained as a teacher and taught economics and politics. In 1985 he joined CDS Co-operative Housing Services in London as a Housing Manager. He then worked at Hartlepool Borough Council as Assistant Borough Housing Officer, Middlesbrough Borough Council as Assistant Chief Housing Officer (with responsibility for the management of 17,000 homes). A short spell lecturing at Northumbria University in Housing Studies was followed by appointments as Operations Director at Phoenix Housing Association and Director of Housing and New Initiatives at Tees Valley HA.
He then moved back down south to become Managing Director of English Churches Housing Group. He joined St Pancras & Humanist HA in 2000 as Chief Executive and created the Origin Housing Group with Griffin HA and became its first Group Chief Executive. He moved to Amicus Group in 2004 as Group Chief Executive and became the first Group Chief Executive of the merged AmicusHorizon Group. He left AmicusHorizon in 2007 for a new career in training and consultancy.
He has a Masters degree in Strategy and Resource Management and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing, a member of the direct final entry selection panel for the CIH and a former Chair of the CIH Northern Counties Branch. He was a non-executive Director at Heritage Care; chaired the Swale Local Strategic Partnership, chaired the North Kent Advisory Committee for Common Purpose and has served on a Housing Association Board. He has co-written two books “Social Housing; an Introduction” published by Longmans and “An introduction to Social Housing” published by the CIH. He also co- wrote the UNISON distance learning materials for their Housing courses. He is an external examiner in housing at the University of Greenwich.
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