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.
