Board Members - Manor Estates Housing Association

Below is a list of all our current Board Members and the position they hold.

Geoff Kitchener

× Rachel Hutton

Chairperson

Employability Advisor with RSL – Board member since September 2014. Elected Vice Chair – January 2017.

× Andrew Scott

Vice Chairperson

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. Co – opted to Board: January 2019

× Nigel Hicks

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

× Mike Trant

Retired Housing Association Asset Management and Policy Manager – Board member since September 2017.

× Andrew Clark

Recently retired, Andrew was formally the Finance and Corporate Services Director with a large Scottish Housing Association – Board member since September 2017

× 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.
Co – opted to Board: January 2019

× Geoff Kitchener

× Daniel Duff

× 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.