Board Members - Manor Estates Housing Association

Below are details of our current Board Members and Office Bearers.

× Rachel Hutton

Chair

Employability Advisor with RSL – Rachel was elected to the Board in September 2014 and Elected Chair October 2020.

× Andrew Scott

Vice Chair

Andrew is an IT consultant and business process specialist. Andrew has extensive commercial and private sector experience as well as having previously worked with and for RSLs in the past. Andrew was elected to the Board September 2019 and elected Vice-Chair October 2020.

× Nigel Hicks

Retired Housing Association Finance Director – Board member since September 2014, Nigel was Elected Chairman December 2016 he then retired from Chair 2020.

× Andrew Clark

Audit Committee Chair

Recently retired, Andrew was formally the Finance and Corporate Services Director with a large Scottish Housing Association – Board member since September 2017 and elected Audit Committee Chair October 2020.

× Sam Mills

Sam currently holds the position of Head of Projects at Changeworks, a charity who provide advice and guidance on sustainability issues and particularly fuel poverty mitigation. Sam has considerable experience of the energy and fuel poverty mitigation sector, environmental management, fundraising and partnership working. Sam was elected to Board September 2019

× Geoff Kitchener

Geoff is a tenant of the Association and was elected to the Board in September 2021.

× Daniel Duff

Daniel is a tenant of the Association and was elected to the Board in September 2021

× Phil Rowsby

Phil is a Project Manager working at Heriot-Watt University managing a number of organisational change programmes. Phil has a background in housing: working in the private rented sector, undertaking research into social housing in Edinburgh and working on housing strategies for both Scottish Borders and the City of Edinburgh Council. Phil was co-opted to the Board October 2020.