Meet the team

Christine Block

Chair

Born and educated in the Midlands, Christine has known and loved Suffolk since her teens.

She moved to Alderton with her family in 1977 and started working at HMP Hollesley Bay as a trained teacher.

She was elected as a District Councillor in 1995 and represented the communities on the Deben Peninsula for many years.

She helped to found – and still chairs – the Deben Estuary Partnership, a grouping of parish councils, landowners, local interest groups, river users and residents who have an interest in the future of the Deben estuary.

Local issues, such as housing, have been a feature of her life for many years now, and she is pleased to be working with the PVCLT.

Andrew Block

Trustee and Governance Lead

Andrew regards himself as very fortunate to have been born in Suffolk and spent his childhood in Walberswick.

He moved to Alderton in 1977, after taking early retirement from teaching, and then to Bawdsey in 2007.

Andrew took on the role of regional official for the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in 1977, which involved managing casework on behalf of teachers, negotiating with heads, and liaising with Suffolk and Norfolk education authorities.

He was clerk to Alderton Parish Council from 1985 to 2005, joined Bawdsey Parish Council in 2016 and is now their chairman.

He is also currently chairman of a small charity running a community centre on the Hebridean island of Islay. The life of small communities is very important to him, hence his belief in the value of affordable housing.

Philip Bouscarle

Trustee and Treasurer

Parish councillor Philip is retired and lives in Shottisham.

He boasts an LLB from Exeter University but decided the legal profession was not for him and in the mid-1980s, he formed a bar-fitting company, which kept him occupied for nearly 30 years.

In 2011, Philip was a member of the group that set up a company to buy the Sorrel Horse public house in Shottisham and he served on the board of directors for three years.

Philip is now treasurer of the PVCLT which he joined because he was concerned that the villages on the Peninsula had a disproportionate number of second homes.

This, he feared, had driven prices up and made it almost impossible for local young people to remain in the area and for older people to downsize and find suitable affordable accommodation.

Peter Brown

Trustee and Company Secretary

Peter Brown began his working life in the contracting and construction industry and then became an advisor to business organisations.

As a management consultant he honed his skills in project management and leadership development.

Providing consultancy to major financial organisations and the NHS, he also worked with smaller independent manufacturers.

His areas of specialism include corporate governance and risk management, process redesign and problem solving to overcome poor performance.

Since his retirement, Peter has taken an interest in housing issues for the young, especially in rural areas.

Tim Giles

Trustee

Tim has lived in the Woodbridge area for around 30 years; the last 15 have been in the wonderful peninsula village of Alderton. He is an active member of the community and is a parish councillor.

Tim’s career in Property and Finance spans over 20 years and he has been involved with a number of developments in Suffolk during this time.

Having a young family, and seeing property sales prices and rents increasing in the rural areas, Tim is very keen to work at all levels to try to secure affordable housing for the current and next generations.

Juliet Johnson

Trustee and Membership Secretary

Juliet has had a home at Shingle Street since 1967 and has lived there full-time since 2006.

She worked as a nurse in inner London community clinics for 40 years and now her interest in PVCLT is to try to ensure that affordable housing is available for local people.

She is also interested in improving local transport and employment opportunities to ensure that the local community continues to thrive.

Andrew Palmer

Trustee

Originally from London, Andy has lived in Hollesley with his family since 2003.

Recently retired, he now spends his time doing DIY or working on one of his old Land-Rovers.

Andy is a Hollesley parish councillor with a keen interest in planning matters.

Nick Rose

Trustee

Nick moved to Alderton in 1994, after taking early retirement from the Architecture Department of Hammersmith and Fulham Council in London.

He qualified as an architect in 1972, and as a building conservation architect in 1992.

During his career he worked on housing, social services buildings, conversions, renovation and landscaping.

Nick is secretary of the Bawdsey Haven Yacht Club, and has served on the Deben Estuary Partnership, the Suffolk Historic Building Association and the local Emergency Planning Committee. For some years he has been vice chair of Alderton Parish Council.

Clare Walker

Trustee

Clare is a Suffolk woman, originally from the north of the county.

She has had a varied working background in health and social care and sail training.

Clare moved to Bawdsey with Stewart, a local fisherman, in 2005 and was lucky to find an unimproved property at well below the market price.

She would not have otherwise been able to afford a home on the peninsula.

On retiring from work at Ipswich Hospital, Clare became more active in the community, becoming aware of local housing and planning issues and her trusteeship at the PVCLT led her to standing for the Parish Council.

Peter Widdup

Trustee and Communications Lead

Peter trained as a graphic designer and worked for several large design and branding consultancies in London before relocating to Shottisham.

He now runs a Suffolk-based small design business and is a non-executive director of a branding consultancy he co-founded 10 years ago.

Throughout his career he has had a special interest in not-for-profit organisations and was responsible for creating several national and international corporate identities.

He moved permanently to Suffolk in 2015.

As a trustee of PVCLT he has a particular interest in the design and quality of what is to be built on the peninsula. His role is to head the communications team for the CLT.

He is a member of Shottisham Parish Council and in his spare time he enjoys gardening and sailing on the river Deben.

Jenny Brown

Business Manager

Jenny was born in Ipswich and lived in East Suffolk until she left to read Mathematics and Statistics at the University in Reading.

She started work in IT in London, moving towards governance roles within the finance industry.

A career change prompted a new role as a management consultant, working primarily for the NHS where she developed strategies and implementation plans for governance, quality practice, risk management and change.

Jenny also worked as a statistician, developing complex economic models to provide policy information relating to affordable housing to government departments and the Joseph Roundtree Foundation.

Jenny moved back to Suffolk in 2016 when she retired from full-time work; she now lives in Alderton and is fortunate to be able to ride in the beautiful Rendlesham Forest.