HIVCA’s Vision
Our vision is that the people of Hampshire and Isle of Wight can live healthy, active, independent lives full of connection and contribution within their communities for as long as possible and that health, and social care support is well integrated into people’s lives to support the best recovery and care.
HIVCA assembly and leadership committee
HIVCA is for all VCSE organisations across HIOW who have an interest in helping to shape health and social care with our partners in other sectors. There are currently around 150 member organisations, representing a spread across the geography, organisations of all shapes and sizes.
HIVCA’s Values
Our values are key to how we work together as a sector and have been identified through discussion. In our work as HIVCA we will be:
Inclusive
It is essential we include voices and experience from across all our communities so that health inequalities can be countered in partnership with these they impact on.
Community-led
We will advocate for community and remind partners that meeting health needs within communities will require scaling down as well as scaling up.
Strategic
The ‘wider’ determinants of health are the core of being and staying well; housing, diet, exercise, family, social connections, feeling useful and being listened to. This is what we do. We will move beyond transactional service delivery and bring our strategic voice to the ICS.
Asset Based
HIVCA members work with people and communities in a way that recognises their whole lives – not just their ill health – and we believe this hold the key for transformational health gain.
Trust
Honesty, trust, and trusted information are important to making such a system work and, if a VCSE partner is not delivering, or is not managing its conflicts of interest in a transparent way it will be held to account
Meet the Board
Natalie Webb
No Limits (Chair)
No Limits is an award-winning charity helping children and young people up to the age of 26 providing youth work-based advice, information, counselling and support services across Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton. They help thousands of children every year and proudly work in partnership with many other dedicated services.
Natalie champions the wider voluntary sector through her involvement with the Strategic Violence Reduction Partnership and has undertaken training with the Kings Fund in Leadership for Population Health. Natalie relishes representing voluntary organisations at the ICB, ensuring their voices, and the voices of the communities they represent, are heard in the wider system of support.
Helen Fisher
Energise Me – Vice Chair
Helen is the Head of Health & Strategy at Energise Me, the lead charity for physical activity across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. She works with a range of organisations to embed physical activity into the local health system to help reduce the risk of illness and disease. She has also led the work to co-ordinate the We Can Be Active strategy – a call for everyone to join forces to make it easier to be active.
This work has been used as an example of how to put community voice at the heart of strategy development. Prior to joining Energise Me, Helen worked on the London 2012 Olympics as the West London Legacy Manager, working to ensure that local communities and businesses benefitted from the hosting of the games. He has also worked as a team manager for the England Netball team.
Rob Kurn
Southampton Voluntary Services
Rob Kurn is the CEO of Southampton Voluntary Services and is delighted to represent the sector on the HIVCA Leadership Committee. With experience in the VCSE sector since 1999, he has held various roles, all with a common focus on tackling health inequalities.
There is so much the sector contributes to improving the conditions through which health can thrive – be it through education and training, housing, health improvement, tackling loneliness, community development, green activities, the list goes on. Recognising this, Rob sees it as essential to have a collective voice within the new health structures across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. This representation ensures greater awareness of the sector’s impact, opportunities to influence policy and stronger collaboration.
Having represented the sector in various Southampton strategic partnerships for many years, Rob looks forward to bringing his expertise and passion for positive change to HIVCA’s work with the Integrated Care Board.
Sam Mabbott
Citizens Advice Hart
Sam joined Citizens Advice Hart as CEO in April 2021. Sam trained as a Generalist Adviser at Citizens Advice Hart in 2016, experiencing first-hand the incredible work done by the staff and volunteers in enabling people, often in desperate need of help, to transform their situations and be better informed and equipped to deal with life challenges.
Citizen’s Advice provides a free, confidential, impartial advice service to anyone struggling with issues around debt, benefits, employment housing, and relationship breakdown. After completing a Psychology degree at Loughborough University and later a Masters in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment (CBT), Sam ran two self-employed businesses, then followed a career in the charity sector, working for Basingstoke Counselling Service, Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity and the Lord Wandsworth College Foundation.
Sam is passionate about EDI, neurodiversity, supporting mental health and helping individuals to develop in the workplace. Sam is delighted to be representing the VCSE sector on the HIVCA Leadership Committee and is excited to work with equally passionate leaders to effect change, and strengthen collaborative working to benefit our communities.
Sarah Quarterman
Basingstoke & Alton Cardiac Rehab Charity
Sarah has been CEO of Cardiac Rehab since July 2018 and prior to that was CEO of Plant Heritage, a national plant conservation charity. Her charity career began in 2010 working in Trusts Fundraising for (the then) Chase Hospice in Guildford and then the Anaphylaxis Campaign, the national charity supporting severe allergy sufferers.
Cardiac Rehab has been working in informal partnership with primary and secondary care for more than 25 years providing rehabilitation after cardiac events, and more recently primary prevention of cardiovascular and coronary heart diseases through specialist exercise programmes. Most recently the charity launched a cancer rehabilitation programme and Sarah is particularly interested in how HIVCA can facilitate and potentially formalise such relationships between local VCSE organisations and NHS units.
Lorna Reavley
HIVE Portsmouth
Lorna Reavley joins the HIVCA Leadership Team bringing extensive experience in health and social care, higher education, and the voluntary sector. As Chief Officer of HIVE Portsmouth, Lorna has led the organisation for over three years, driving initiatives that strengthen communities and improve health and wellbeing.
Having lived in Portsmouth for 25 years, Lorna is deeply committed to empowering residents to lead on issues that matter most to them, fostering collaboration across sectors, and building meaningful connections between organisations working to create positive change. Her leadership is rooted in a belief that communities hold the key to shaping better outcomes and that partnership is essential for system-level transformation.
“I’m excited to join the HIVCA Leadership Team because I believe in the power of collaboration. By ensuring the voices of our place-based voluntary and community sector are heard at a system level, we can create more inclusive, responsive health and care services that truly reflect the needs of the people we serve.”
Jo Dare
Isle of Wight Youth Trust
Jo has over 30 years’ experience of VCSE, 20 years as a CEO. She started her career in the sector as a Development Officer for an infrastructure charity, before becoming the CEO of Age Concern Isle of Wight (now Age UK Isle of Wight) in 2005.
After 15 years, and a pandemic, it was time for a change, and she returned to her roots, and passion, supporting children and families through being appointed CEO of the IW Youth Trust in 2021. As a result, she has covered a lot of the life course!
The IW Youth Trust is an amazing charity that provides therapeutic, wellbeing and practical support to young islanders aged 5-25.
In all roles, Jo has led transformational change, focussing on connecting with communities and achieving the best outcomes for those she serves.
In addition to her CEO role at the Youth Trust, Jo is passionate about influencing public sector colleagues to understand, and invest in, the unique strength of the VCSE. Chair of the IW Voluntary Sector Forum, Jo currently sits on the Health & Wellbeing Board, Health & Care Partnership Board, SEND Partnership Board and Youth Justice Board.
Jo is so pleased to be asked to sit on the HIVCA Leadership Committee and is committed to share knowledge and insights to make a meaningful contribution to the committee’s work. She aims to leverage community intelligence to help shape policy, strengthen VCSE capacity for effective delivery, and ensure our collective voice influences the strategic direction of the ICB.
Julie Amies
Energise Me
Julie has worked in the private, public and charity sectors. Except for a 6 months secondment in the Culture Sector, her experience has mainly been based in the physical activity sector. She led the transition of the work of Energise Me, the lead charity for physical activity across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, out of Hampshire County Council in 2016.
Julie has always believed that physical activity and sport can change people’s lives. She also has a firm belief in and commitment to collaboration. This is evident in not just what Energise Me does but how they work with people and organisations across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to build happier, healthier and stronger communities.
Work with local partners to embed physical activity into the health system and reduce the risk of illness and disease is one area where she believes we can support people to get started, to begin to move more and to feel the health and wellbeing benefits of being active.
Through the experience of moving Energise Me’s work into the voluntary sector and understanding the vital role it plays and needs to play in a wider system, Julie applied to be its representative at the Hampshire Health and Wellbeing Board. She has been advocating for the sector and ensuring their voices, together with those of the communities they represent are heard.
