Origin
Jeremy Nixey developed a Not-for-Profit care home and community hospital business as a Not-for-Profit spin off from The Secondary Housing Association For Wales (SHAW) which he had developed some years earlier.
In 1995 he separated The Care Business from the Housing Association (renamed Link Housing Association) and retained The SHAW name as Shaw Homes for which He secured from HMRC registration in 1994 as an Exempt Charity.
Development
1995 -2006
Shaw Homes developed a chain of homes and hospitals financed by debt secured against long term PFI and PPP contracts won in tenders from the NHS and Local Authorities.
2006
Jeremy led a management buyout which created Shaw Healthcare Group, they acquired all the contracts, assets and liabilities of Shaw Homes and left the organisation with no staff, or liabilities or assets except £12.5 Million Cash.
Shaw Homes changed its name to the Shaw Foundation and established the stream of activities which continue today.
Present Directors
Jeremy Nixey
Founder & CEO
After 13 years as a Benedictine monk he then set up the Secondary Housing Association for Wales and ten Housing Associations then Shaw Healthcare Group, Shaw Foundation, My Care my home and Shaw Lifetime Care. Today Jeremy is President of Shaw Healthcare Group and CEO of The Foundation.
Helen Black
Chair
After 35 years Senior Management in Social Care, Helen worked as an independent consultant advising several local authorities and NHS Trusts. She has served on the boards of several charities including as Chair of Chester Sexual Abuse Support Service (CSASS).
Simon MacSorley
Simon has worked as an Executive Director in facilities, estate and asset management across a wide range of organizations in the public, private and third sectors. He also serves as a NED on various boards in the healthcare and education sectors.
Chris Horlick
After the Royal Marines, Chris trained with Barclays and later became MD of Denplan, MD of the Care Division of Partnership PLC, Sales Director of AXA PPP and served on Westminster Council’s commission on Long term care. In 2012 he was awarded the Healthcare Industry’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
