Andy is an Accountant with a background in commercial finance, and has worked for a number of Multinational companies over the past 25 years, as a Finance Director and Chief Financial Officer.

Having been born and brought up in Portsmouth, he has strong links to the area, and joined the Home-Start Portsmouth Board of Trustees in 2023.

He currently lives in Fareham with his wife Heather, 2 dogs (spaniels) and has a daughter (Lucy) who is at Medical School in Birmingham.

Bev is a retired Matron with 39 years in the NHS working in a variety of nursing specialties including general medicine, older person’s medicine and orthopedics. It is important to her that she continues to give something positive back to society and especially important that she helps struggling families. As a Home-Start Portsmouth Trustee she brings a diversity of managerial and organisational abilities and excellent people skills. Her husband is a longstanding Home-Start volunteer.

Linda has followed a career in health care, as a nurse, midwife and health visitor and worked overseas in community health. In her final years with the NHS she was a lead for safeguarding children for a local community health trust, working with colleagues across agencies and particularly in partnership with Portsmouth City Council social care, representing health on the Local Safeguarding Board, on the multi-agency training team and managing the NHS safeguarding training programmes. Currently lecturing part time at the University of Portsmouth she volunteers with Kings College University, London on their health professionals’ education programmes in Somaliland and Sierra Leone. As well as being a Trustee for Home-Start Portsmouth, Linda is Chair of Governors for a local Primary school and on the Board of Trustees of her local church.

Tarnia is a previous shareholder and company director of Bernard’s Estate Agents in Portsmouth, with experience in business management including sales, accounting, HR and lettings.

Having lived in Portsmouth all of her life, Tarnia has joined Home-Start Portsmouth to be apart of a local charity and put her love of fundraising and events to support the local community.

Tarnia continues to live in Portsmouth with her 2 teenage children and dog.

In 2022 Jo left the University of Portsmouth after 25 years. She was a senior teaching and research fellow in social research methods.  In her career she headed up several major research projects funded by central and local government, NGOs, and national and local charities.  

One of those projects was based on the then Labour Government’s Sure Start Initiative and she witnessed, firsthand, the importance of supporting families with young children, and the difference that could make to parents, but especially children under five years old.

She was, therefore, thrilled to join the Board of Trustees in late 2022. Jo has lived in Southsea since 1983 with her two dogs – her three children are now all very grown-up and have moved away, but they all still enjoy coming back for visits to their home town.

alic@hsportsmouth.org.uk