Management & Governance

Staff team

Shared Lives South West is a registered charity. Our day to day operations are carried out by the staff of the organisation, accountable to a board of trustees.  Shared Lives South West is structured into three main teams – the administrative and finance functions of the organisation, and our services teams in Devon and in Cornwall.

Shared Lives South West has a staff team of over 30 employees, based in three offices.  You can find out more about our staff in each area by clicking in the About Us menu to the left.

Management

The management team of the organisation is made up of:

To send an email to anyone in the management team, click their name above.

Board of trustees

We currently have 8 members of our board of trustees. The board meets four times a year and is involved in all aspects of the work of Shared Lives South West. The board has three committees – finance and audit, remuneration and terms of service and the approval panel.

If you would like to know more about our board of trustees you can download an information sheet:

Approval Panel

As part of our governance structure we also have an independent approval panel.  Our panel is made up of volunteers who are independent to our organisation.  The approval panel is chaired by Cathy Toole.  For more information about our panel you can download an information sheet :

Volunteer opportunities

We are currently actively seeking new trustees, particularly people with a background or experience in social care, contracting and commissioning or marketing and PR.  We are actively seeking new panel members to join our well established panel in Devon and new panel members in Cornwall where we wish to form a new panel to support the rapid growth in our Cornwall services.

To find out about any volunteer opportunities on our board or approval panel, please click here to go to our Job Opportunites page