Helen Driver

Chair

Helen joined the Board of Orwell Housing Association in March 2019.  Having grown up in Suffolk, Helen is proud of her involvement with Orwell and of its achievements within the community. 

Helen is now Chair of the Board, Chair of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee and a member of the Customer Insight Committee from mid-2022.  Helen is also a member of the Support and Care Working and Tender Group and is the Money Laundering Principal for the group.

With a background in investment analysis and managing UK equity pension funds and portfolios with organisation such as, Aviva Investors and Standard Life Investments, Helen was responsible for financial communications with shareholders and the investment community.  

Helen has since diversified to working in collaboration with a national financial education charity.

Dayle Bayliss

Board Member

Dayle joined the Board of Orwell Housing Association in 2020. Dayle has worked in construction and skills for a number of years and understands first-hand the importance of how skills for life, supporting communities and the homes we live in contribute to our wellbeing, social mobility and thriving communities. Being part of the board enables Dayle to play a part of the Orwell family and having a small part to play in the work Orwell do and the lives they impact.

Dayle is Vice-Chair of the Board, Chair of Orwell Homes Limited, a member of the Audit Committee and is the board nominee for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. She was also a member of the Governance Committee until it was closed.

With a background as a Chartered Surveyor, Dayle has already won national and local business awards, including East Anglian Daily Times Young Business Person of the Year 2012, Project ‘@ TheRec’ Winner of the 2015 East of England RICS Regeneration Award and highly commended accolades for her work.

Dayle’s desire to deliver construction services from a different perspective led her to found Dayle Bayliss Ltd, a Surveying, Design and Project Management Consultancy.  This gave Dayle the freedom to exercise her collaborative approach to construction projects, as well as tackle the challenges of skills and diversity in construction. 

Ian Pinches

Board Member

Ian joined the Board of Orwell Housing Association in March 2020. With a long background in senior roles within social housing, Ian is passionate about the added value that locality-based housing organisations can bring to a sector that is so often (perhaps misleadingly) defined as being dominated by large organisations operating at a national level.

Ian is new Chair of Audit Committee, a member of Remuneration and Nominations Committee and a member of the Support and Care Working and Tender Group

Ian is a qualified accountant (FCCA) with experience in both senior management and Executive Director roles within the Social Housing and Care sector. Ian also brings over a decade of Non-Executive and Committee Chair experience gained across a variety of organisations in Housing, the NHS, and the Emergency Services.

Although now semi-retired, Ian also has a background in establishing and running a multi award-winning business operating in the Hospitality sector.

Ian has been a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts for over a decade.

Brett Rennolds

Board Member

Brett joined the Board of Orwell Housing Association in 2020.  Having begun his career as an outreach worker in the community Brett is clear that affordable housing is directly linked to positive life chances and is committed to equalising those opportunities for all.

Brett is Vice Chair of the Remunerations and Nominations Committee, a member of the Audit Committee and a member of the Support and Care Working and Tender Group.

With a background in the voluntary and public sector Brett has a wealth of experience in Business Development, Care & Support.

As a business consultant, Brett works with organisations, groups and individuals to enable development, change and growth, enjoying the challenges associated with change management, co-production and stakeholder engagement, identifying solutions to challenges collaboratively, inclusively and transparently.  Primarily it’s the ‘winning of hearts and minds’ that drives him.

Stuart Appleby

Board Member

Stuart joined the Board of Orwell Housing Association in March 2021 and is a former tenant of the Association and is now a shared owner of an Orwell property. Stuart is a passionate advocator for social housing and a firm believer in the socio-economic benefits that it provides to individuals and the wider community.

Stuart is a board member of the Orwell Homes Limited, a member of the Customer Insight Committee from mid-2022 and is a Tenant Engagement representative for Board.  He was also a member of the Governance Committee until it was closed.

For the past ten years, Stuart has been involved in Orwell Housing’s Resident Steering Group, giving him a critical lens through which to view the inner workings of Orwell as it has developed and evolved.

Stuart is the Director of HE Operations within the department of University Studies at West Suffolk College and has previously held the positions of Head of Health & Human Sciences and lecturer in Humanities and Business Management.

Stephen White

Board Member

Steve spent the early part of his career working across a variety of sectors including RBS/Nat West, T Mobile and the Financial Ombudsman Service before joining Hyde, a large London/SE based provider, initially as their interim COO and shortly thereafter their CEO for a thoroughly enjoyable 4 and half years. Steve’s time at Hyde demonstrated the positive impact that housing associations can have on individuals, communities and wider society, contrasting starkly with his own experience as a child living in poor quality inner city local authority housing. Having now become an advocate of the sector, Steve has remained active in the social housing sector having previously been the Chair of Origin and now, in addition to his role at Orwell, Chair of Moat.

Steve was attracted to Orwell because of the quite brilliant work the organisation does across the community, which is now Steve’s home.

Steve is also an above-knee amputee having injured his leg during military service, and besides his sector roles, Steve is also the Vice Chair of the military charity BLESMA, which focuses on supporting individuals who have lost limb(s) through military service.

Tom Brown

Board Member

Tom became Chief Executive Officer of The Green Light Trust in 2018, having joined the charity in 2013.  At GLT Tom has united his passions for the environment, social equity and education overseeing the development of the charity to one on the cutting edge of nature-based interventions.

During his tenure as CEO at GLT Tom has enabled the charity to demonstrate its impact through novel academic research.  

With a broad range of experience and academic qualifications Tom has grown the charity and sits on various regional and national panels contributing to the health and education agenda.

Having grown up on the Suffolk Coast he is passionate that access to high-quality natural habitats is a basic human right regardless of a person’s background or socio-economic standing. 

Pamhi Mulambo

Board Member

Pamhi strongly believes that everyone should have a safe, secure place to call their own and is passionate about supporting the social housing sector to achieve this.

Pamhi is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Information Systems Auditor with a background in auditing and accounting. She started her career with Deloitte in external audit covering entities in the banking, financial services and manufacturing sectors before moving into internal audit covering payments operations at a major bank.

Pamhi is currently a Director in Internal Audit covering Technology at a major bank.

Amy Dalton-Leader

Independent Board Member - Orwell Homes

Amy Dalton-Leader is a Chartered Building Surveyor and Project Manager. Amy is the founder and director of Iceni Consultants Limited which is based in Bury St Edmunds. Amy is also a trustee for Lionheart, the Benevolent fund for the RICS. Amy believes that the built environment plays a big part in the well being of its occupants and is passionate about delivering high quality buildings that allow their occupants to thrive. Amy is a believer in paying it forward and supports a number of training surveyors in their career journey to becoming chartered.

Jo has worked in social housing for 30 years both within housing groups and as a consultant, in both development and governance roles. She is very pleased upon her retirement to be appointment as a member of Orwell Housing Association’s Board and the Audit Committee from March 2024.

Jo was a Chartered Surveyor and her early career at Norwich Union involved in developing retail parks and offices transitioned to social housing development within a few years. Project management of housing schemes for Flagship Housing Group then led to managing inspections there, before a further transition to Circle Anglia Group (now Clarion) to do the same, then a move into a senior leadership governance role. Finally, she moved into consultancy working for two of the leading national firms - Altair and Housing Quality Network - supporting more than 120 providers across the country. 

Jo is keen to continue to use the experience and knowledge gained in her last roles as well as to learn from Orwell as a leading community housing, care and support provider. Since both her parents came from Suffolk and she has lived in Norfolk most of her life, Jo has a strong understanding and love for the counties Orwell serves.

 

Scott Hayward

Board Member

Scott Hayward is an experienced Project Management Professional who has worked for many years delivering business and IT led projects and programmes across many industry sectors, including Finance and Social Housing, NHS and the Home Office.  Scott has worked closely with many governmental agencies and bodies including the MOD, The Met Police, GMC and Department for Health.  He currently works for the UK's largest provider of care homes. 

Scott is a tenant of Orwell and is well placed to bring a direct user experience to the Board.  He lived in Norfolk during his childhood before moving to Devon to follow his career in the Royal Navy.  Scott lived in the North East and Edinburgh for several decades before a change in circumstances saw him come full circle and move back to Norfolk. 

Scott very much enjoys being part of an organisation that always strives to continually improve and move forward its customer focused energy to achieve the best outcomes; at a time that is presenting new challenges and solutions, in a fast-moving and evolving sector.