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Executive Membership


Steering Group Members

Chair: Mick Brown fifty-five, has lived in Winterslow since 1998 and is married to Ellen who has been a resident in the village for twenty years. They have five children, Ellen's three boys and Mick's son and daughter. Ellen is a Domiciliary Foot Care Specialist and Mick retired from the Fire Service after twenty-seven years, having served in Hampshire and Wiltshire. He finished his career as a Senior Fire Officer in charge of Wiltshire's Fire Safety Department. For the last two years he has served on the Parish Council and has been the driving force behind the move towards a parish plan.

As a result of being elected as Chair of the Steering Group he has tendered his resignation as a parish councillor in order that he can direct all his efforts into the production of the Plan

Vice Chair: Jessie Page is nineteen and is currently working in Salisbury but will be off to university in October to study French and politics. She has lived ion Winterslow all her life and is taking the opportunity to join the Steering Group "in order to put something back into the community she has grown up in".


Vice Chair: Tim Elliot has been married to Vivien for forty-three years and bought their first house in Winterslow in 1971 and have lived in the village ever since. They have a son John and daughter Trish who also live in the village. Tim, at sixty-eight, is retired have worked for the Naafi for thirty-three years, ending his career as Director of Operations. He has five grand children, two currently at the Village School and two who previously attended. Tim now makes the most of his retirement by globe trotting, visiting all the countries on his "must see" list.

Vicky Kuhle is fortyish! (Classified information) and has lived in Winterslow for nearly five years. She shares home with husband and her two boys aged thirteen and ten. Vicky helps with her husband's home based business that operates in the Internet Communications field. One day a week she undertakes voluntary work based in Tidworth, in the Help for Heroes Office, and is looking forward to a greater involvement in village life by her participation in the production of the Parish Plan.

Treasurer: Ian Kay, aged sixty-one, is originally from Lancashire and considers himself very lucky to have lived in Winterslow for twenty of the last thirty years. Most of his working life has been spent in the south of England in the sales and distribution area of the cut flower trade. He is now working locally as the Site Manager for Wyvern College in Laverstock .He lives with his wife Viv and has three grown up children.

Paula Page, forty-nine, is married to Rick and has lived in the Village with her three children since 1991. All three children have attended the preschool and school. She was involved with the preschool committee, first as treasurer and then as chair for about three years. Having qualified as a teacher in 1981 she now works as an education advisor for ‘Look After the Children' in Wiltshire.

Brian Goggin moved to Winterslow in 1972 from Salisbury. He has three grown up children, two having married in All Saints Church. He has spent forty-seven years in his profession as a Chartered Building Surveyor, running his own business for twenty-eight years. Brian was a member of the village Committee at the time of the construction of the Village Hall. At the age of sixty-six he is now retired and kept very busy looking after three grandchildren and walking his not so little dog (or is it the dog who takes Brian for a walk?). Having helped to shape the structure of buildings in the Salisbury area he is now researching the past by studying Saxon Architecture.

Trenchard Torode is seventy-seven and is married to Lisa and have five grown up children, three living abroad and two in the UK. ‘Tren' moved into the village, from Kent, in 1978. Having completed National Service, he has owned his own garage, operated a swimming pool installation business, has worked as a builder and also a designer (CAD). He has built and driven rally and track racing vehicles

Debbie Evans, aged forty-three, is married to Jonathan and has two girls aged nine and seven. She moved into Winterslow two years ago and is currently working in service development for NHS Wiltshire in coordination with social care based in Devizes. Following a number of years in marketing, business and organisation management for the pharmaceutical industry, Debbie served on the board of South Wiltshire Primary Care Trust.
Timothy Elliot

Janie Methuish is "fifty three going on thirty" and has lived in the village for sixteen years, with husband Jeremy, bringing up three children. She is a tennis coach working at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Farliegh Preparatory School near Andover.

Mike Taylor moved into Winterslow in January 2008 (still required to carry a visitors visa) with his wife, Dee. Now retired from a career in IT as a commercial director he is, at sixty-two, enjoying his still growing family of five children and five grandchildren. Mike will have a ready source of information about life in Winterslow as one of his daughters and her partner live in the village.

Mark Tucker is 37 years old Social Worker with the Community Team supporting people with learning difficulties/disabilities and has been back in the village after a ten-year break. He lives with his wife Ghazala and children Liliana and Yusef. Mark grew up in Winterslow and went to the local school. He returned in 2007 as, "he felt it was the best place to bring up his family". He says, "I am really looking forward to supporting the local community to develop a plan that will go towards ensuring that children have the continued opportunity to enjoy this very special village"

Clive Broadley, at fifty-five +, is a Managing Director in international shipping. He has been married to Thelma for thirty-four years and has two grown up children, Sahra a midwife and Ben a teacher: both having been brought up in the village attend the local school. Thelma and Clive were Youth Fellowship leaders for ten years Clive served on the PCC for ten years, is actively involved with Project Uganda and is involved in church life, having been a churchwarden for five years. Clive has a passion for village community, nature and conservation.

Penny Fooks, 47, has lived in Winterslow for 10 years. She has a son of 13 who attended Winterslow School. Penny was the Village Hall Letting Agent for a number of years and enjoyed the opportunity this gave to get to know so many different people in the village. She works part time as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist for Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust, specialising in the mental health of older people.