Board and Staff
EMCLH is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (limited by guarantee) established in 2012 and governed by a voluntary Board of Directors.
We employ experienced and accredited Facilitators to work with communities, landowners, local authorities and providers of new housing who can bring forward community-led housing projects.
From its start in covering initiatives solely in Lincolnshire, EMCLH increased its staff in 2018 and now operates across the whole of the East Midlands.
Board and Staff
EMCLH is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (limited by guarantee) established in 2012 and governed by a voluntary Board of Directors.
We employ experienced and accredited Facilitators to work with communities, landowners, local authorities and providers of new housing who can bring forward community-led housing projects.
From its start in covering initiatives solely in Lincolnshire, EMCLH increased its staff in 2018 and now operates across the whole of the East Midlands.
Members of EMCLH Board:
Board members are appointed for a three-year period and can serve a maximum of three times on the Board. 2022 saw the retirement of the last member of the original Board that had set up EMCLH in 2012.
Darren Fabris
EMCLH Company Secretary
Darren is a Chartered Surveyor and is the Group Property Director for Carlton Forest, based in Worksop.
Blase Lambert
Director
Blase is Chief Operating Officer at the Confederation of Co-operative Housing and has his own independent consultancy business
Kevin Kendall
Director
Kevin is Head of Property, at Lincolnshire Co-operative
Martin Field
Director
Martin is Senior CLH Facilitator at EMCLH
Previous Members of EMCLH Board:
Steve Galjaard (2012-2022)
John Howes (2012-2016)
John Bramley (2012-2021)
Stuart Mitchell (2016-2019)
Tessa Lynn (2021-2022)
Tom Archer (2017-2021)
Bob Ledger (2021-2024)
Alan Ball (2021-2022)
Jo Lavis (2012-2021)
Jason Beedell (2012-2021)
John Mather (2016-2019)
Rt. Rev. Tim Ellis (2012-2019)
Richard Tollemache (2021-2023)
EMCLH Staff Members:
Martin Field
Senior EMCLH Facilitator
Martin Field has been a long-term advocate, practitioner, and resident of community-led housing initiatives. Following 20+ years of public sector and housing association roles at district, city and regional levels, engaging with both local government and local community delivery of housing, planning and urban design services, he then held academic positions in Northampton and Leicester, and has recently been a Guest Tutor at University College London.
In being an active member of UK research networks on housing and neighbourhood initiatives, he has been a Board Director of the Community Self Build Agency, the UK Cohousing Network, the Confederation of Co-operative Housing, and a member of the Carnegie Trust Working Group that established the National CLT Network.
Contact email : martinf@emclh.co.uk. Contact phone : 07976 546532
Trish McCourt
EMCLH Facilitator
Trish McCourt has had 25+ years of experience working in the housing sector. Starting out as a volunteer with Shelter, she has worked for local authorities, housing associations, the charity and non-profit making sector and as a self-employed consultant, principally across the East Midlands area. Her roles have included senior positions within the local authority and housing association sector, including operational management of housing projects, social housing and homelessness services, development and enabling, strategy and policy and community led housing. These roles have involved extensive partnership working across the statutory, voluntary and community sector.
Trish has a degree in Housing Studies from De Montfort University and has recently completed an MSc in Public Sociology at the University of Northampton.
Contact email : patriciam@emclh.co.uk. Contact phone : 07598 176353
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