Chatham Maritime Trust (Kent)
Andrew Willetts has extensive experience in financial and operational leadership across various sectors. Currently serving as a Trustee Director at Chatham Maritime Trust since June 2023, Andrew previously held significant roles such as Director of Finance & Resources and Interim Director of Finance at PDSA from January 2019 to August 2022. Andrew's earlier positions include Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit & Risk and Remuneration Committees at Ashley House plc, Hospitals and Homecare Director and Healthcare Solutions Director at Celesio UK, and Finance Director at Lloyds Pharmacy. Additional roles include Director of Shared Services at Hagemeyer UK, Head of Financial Operations at Waterstones, and Head of Financial Accounting at Dillons Bookstores. Andrew began the professional journey as Group Financial Controller at Pentos plc and Group Financial Accountant at Wheway plc. Educationally, Andrew obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Modern History from the University of Oxford between 1982 and 1985.
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Chatham Maritime Trust (Kent)
Chatham Maritime Trust is a unique organisation, set up to meet a special purpose The Trust was formed in 1997 to take on the long-term management and maintenance responsibilities of the Chatham Maritime Estate, at the time one of the major urban regeneration sites in the country. Chatham Maritime Trust is a registered charity (no 1055710) and a company limited by guarantee. The Trust has four member organisations: Medway Council, HCA now known as Homes England and the Estate’s two occupier associations: St Mary’s Island Residents Association Ltd (residential) and South Maritime Residents Ltd (non-residential). The member organisations each have rights of nomination for Trustee appointments (the HCA one and the others two each) and the Trustee Board typically also includes four or five “Independent Trustees” who are usually local professionals with relevant skills. The Trust owns significant parts of the Chatham Maritime Estate, and acquires further sites as development completes. Eventually the Trust will own virtually all of the public domain of the Estate. The Trust receives funding for maintenance of the Estate from three areas: South Maritime service charges, St Mary’s Island rentcharges and from the Trust’s own endowment funds. The maintenance expenditure at Chatham Maritime is in the order of a million pounds a year, and the Trust anticipates remaining as estate owner and manager at Chatham Maritime well into the 2100s. Chatham Maritime Trust also plays a role in supporting the growing community at Chatham Maritime and community activities in the Medway Towns generally. The Trust does this through its Community Fund which it uses to promote events, and to sponsor or support community groups.