Welcome to WISH London.

Hony joined Parasol Homes in 2022 as the Interim Managing Director. Over the course of her nearly 26-year career, she has held a range of leadership positions in the housing industry, including Housing Director and Non-Executive responsibilities. She is Chair of Eldon Housing Association and Co-Chair of Women in Social Housing (WISH) London.

Hony believes that being a WISH Director provides a tremendous platform for women in housing to build confidence and advance their careers, and she aims to bring more women to the housing sector.

Jacqueline previously worked in the public and third sectors for over 30 years and is passionate about making a positive contribution to society.  With 15 years as Executive Director and 11 years as CEO, Jacqueline has worked closely with boards to deliver organisational strategies and cultural change.

Jacqueline is a NLP Certified Practitioner; as a leader she is particularly committed to the values of professional development; is a pioneer scholar of the Leadership 2025 Strategic Leadership programme with Roffey Park Leadership & Organisational Development Institute.

In her capacity as Non-Executive Director, Jacqueline is a Board Member of WISH,  Mentor for BTEG Routes to Success Programme and also Mentors for Crossing Thresholds Jacqueline is also a Crossing Thresholds Mentor which  delivers programmes which transforms the lives of women across the UK and internally to define what they want from their career and their life; how to achieve it!.  Being the Lead Ambassador for WISH, working with some truly inspiring member ambassadors is really exciting, an opportunity which offers me the chance to make a difference and the chance to support an initiative that resonates with me; the opportunity to work alongside professional women on the board also offers me a great source of intellectual challenge.

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Aysegul is a Senior Marketing & Communications Executive and has been working in the sector for over three years. In her organisation she is responsible for producing and delivering effective content across various channels to support overall objectives.

Throughout her career so far, she has embraced the opportunity to share and celebrate achievements and career stories of women, to help raise the profile of women in the sector and encourage more young women to consider a career in construction.

Aysegul values mentorship and believes that it is important that we are always learning and listening, to grow both professionally and personally. As a WISH London Board Member, she hopes to have even more opportunities to learn from inspirational colleagues across the sector.

“I am excited about the future of women in the housing sector and I look forward to supporting WISH in building and empowering this fantastic network of women.”

Frances is a Director of dlp Planning, a Planning and Development consultancy with offices in London and throughout the UK. She has a broad range of planning, regeneration and development experience, having worked in both the private and public sectors. Frances has specialist planning experience in the housing sector and is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Royal Town Planning Institute. Frances advises a number of Housing Associations and private clients on a range of housing led projects within London and the South East, including the development of strategic sites, estate regeneration and housing-led mixed use schemes and EIA development. Prior to joining dlp Planning Frances was an Associate Director at Lichfields, an Associate at Tibbalds Monro (Architects and Planners), a Senior Planner at the London Borough of Camden and a research consultant at the Centre for Environmental Studies, where she undertook research on outer housing estates. 

Michelle currently leads the community services department at Silva Homes in Bracknell. The team are responsible for providing housing and support services for older people in purpose-built schemes and the local community, the delivery of aids and adaptations in partnership with the local authorities and the provision of tenancy sustainment, community investment and health and wellbeing services.

Prior to Silva Homes, Michelle worked at Anchor for eight years, learning and growing her knowledge of housing management and how supportive environments help people of any age to thrive. She worked in rented schemes, leasehold estates and care led developments, building a solid understanding of the needs of older people and how the housing sector can meet these needs.

An advocate for open mental health discussions and honest sharing of our past experiences, Michelle believes that by talking, we break down some of the barriers that prevent us from reaching our potential.

Michelle is proud to be a member of the WISH London board and hopes to bring not only knowledge and experience but more importantly, an opportunity to support women at all stages in their careers to learn and develop.

Janine is a built environment professional with sixteen years' experience in the housing industry, managing brownfield development, estate regeneration, stakeholder engagement and new business projects. Whilst currently running Aveland Consulting, providing business development, bid management and project management expertise to the private sector, Janine has extensive experience working in social housing across housing associations and local authorities.

Passionate about the need for productive partnerships between the private and public housing sectors, Janine’s focus is on the need for placemaking and balanced communities sitting at the heart of all housing development. A proactive and collaborate solution-focussed approach is central to her successes in new business creation and largescale regeneration project delivery.

Before moving into the private sector, Janine spent four years in resident engagement, housing management, development and policy in the public sector. Leading on Local Authority stakeholder consultation and community engagement for a South London estate regeneration scheme, her masterplanning success is testament to a pragmatic approach, negotiating balanced messaging whilst building positive, solution-focussed, relationships with partners.

Janine’s qualifications include an English Literature and Language degree from the University of Oxford, a MA Housing Practice obtained at Westminster University and a MSc Urban Regeneration from University College London. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and the RTPI.

Janine actively encourages female talent in the development industry. As well as regularly lecturing to University of Westminster Housing and Urban Regeneration students over a five year period, she enjoys speaking at educational events. Her 16 years’ experience across private and public sector housing development drives Janine’s WISH Board focus of encouraging female talent into an industry that will strongly benefit from broader, more inclusive input.

Violet’s a senior digital marketing and communications manager, with 12 years+ experience delivering the promotion and positioning of award-winning property and retail brands. Alongside her day-to-day role, she heads up the award-winning ethnicity staff network group at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing. She’s also a marketing and comms lead for UNIFY - a collective of staff network groups focused on celebrating culture and raising awareness of career barriers and other sector inequalities for ethnically employees. Violet’s passionate about playing an active role in improving the lived experience of colleagues in the workplace to enhance employee engagement, performance, and culture.

As a champion for diversity and inclusion, Violet hopes to contribute positively and proactively to creating an even more diverse WISH network where Black and ethnic minority women also feel included, valued, and empowered to reach their full potential. She believes intersectional feminism truly matters right now because it offers a lens through which we can better understand and support one another and strive towards more equitable and beneficial outcomes for all women.

Winner of the ‘Woman of the Year’ - Women in Housing Awards 2021.

Passionate about people, tackling problems and unlocking potential to deliver more homes Juliette is a social housing professional experienced up to director level in leading new build housing projects for Housing Associations.

Juliette has vast experience in managing development & regeneration sites from inception to completion and has also delivered organisational strategies. A creative problem solver who loves to get things done collaboratively, she also values the importance of corporate culture and leadership.

Her professional qualifications include a Master’s degree in Project Management and a degree in Sociology as well as being shortlisted for Project Manager of the Year at the Women in Construction Awards (2017).

Juliette enjoys supporting rising talent and raising awareness for underrepresented groups and has been able to do so in positions held on the leadership team and the diversity forum at her previous employer. Grateful to the females that inspired and took the time to mentor her in navigating gender imbalance on construction sites and multi-disciplinary project teams, Juliette would like to support others to reach their goals through the WISH network. Juliette also recognises the male allyship that was important in her career to date and is keen to connect and promote this.

Rebecca is a senior architect and has over 15 years’ experience leading the delivery of social housing across London and Cambridge, and in this time securing planning permission for over 1,500 homes. Her experience includes infill schemes, regeneration, masterplanning, conversion and restoration, third age housing and commercial. This has involved extensive public consultation, planning, detailed design and construction, as well as successful competition entries for large scale regeneration and residential developments.

In addition to this Rebecca has contributed to the publications The Deck Access Housing Design Guide (Buildings Editor) and What is the Future of High Rise Housing? (researcher) and in 2019 curated the #MapLondon conference (hosted by Arup in collaboration with Coherent Cities) which brought together over 100 industry leaders to consider how London can use its data and mapping tools to lead globally on smart city making.

Rebecca has led a seminar group at London Metropolitan University on the Part II Advocacy course. This course required students to define their aspirations to be an ethical professional, that they might inspire positive change and use their skills and expertise to contribute meaningfully to the betterment of society.

Rebecca recognises the transformative power of professional networks and collaboration, aligning with WISH's commitment to thought leadership and meaningful change.

Pamela is a committed new business and service development manager with extensive experience in regional senior care and support business teams within large housing associations. She has significant project and change management experience including growth, staff development, communications, mergers, service transfers and new business.

Pamela is passionate about diversity and inclusion having contributed to various G15 diversity and inclusion strategies and staff network groups. She is a founding member of Houseproud, the social housing network for LGBT colleagues and was awarded inclusion champion in the 2018 Housing for Women awards, for this work. A strong believer in coaching and mentoring to increase diversity in management, Pamela currently leads Thrive, NHG’s care and support mentoring programme, delivered in partnership with the Housing Diversity Network.

Joining the board of WISH in 2022 Pamela hopes to raise the profile of women in social housing and the membership of WISH through dynamic events and opportunities to network which include all aspects of intersectionality for women.

Gill has over 25 years’ experience in the affordable housing sector having started her career with Lovell as a graduate trainee in 1994. Having graduated with Maths BSc Hons at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (London University), Lovell sponsored her to do a Diploma in Surveying (Planning and Development) at the College of Estate Management.

After an initial 10 years with Lovell and then 15 years working with other contractor/developers, Gill returned to Lovell in 2019 to help grow the London region. Her focus is to generate new business, securing regeneration and mixed tenure development opportunities with housing association and local authority partners.

Gill has been a member of WISH for most of her career has been on the London board since 2012. As membership lead, her focus is to increase membership and encourage new relationships to support and grow what is truly a fantastic network.