Helen Simpson OBE: Chair

Past experience:

Helen is an experienced commercial leader who spent much of her executive career in senior management roles with BT in business development, strategy, partnerships, digital transformation & social responsibility.

Helen also chairs the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership as it prepares for the Mayoral Combined Authority and is a trustee of St Martins in the Fields Charity.

Helen previously worked at Circle Housing and as a Board Member at Your Homes Newcastle.

Committees/working groups:

• Chair of the Board
• Governance Committee member

Personal statement:

It’s great to be part of a team which is so committed to providing safe, secure and warm homes for our customers and is making great progress towards realising our vision of being the best rural housing association in the country.

Broadacres are a very customer focused organisation committed to building high quality, new affordable homes and, just as importantly, investing in its existing homes.

Date of election to Board:

August 2020