Management committee

Peter Webb (Chair)

Peter is Agency Manager at Guinness Partnership.

Peter has worked in Supported Housing since 2002 - his first role in social housing after working as a professional photographer. He started his housing career with Northern Counties in Manchester and progressed to his current role in 2015 as Agency Manager at Guinness. Northern Counties became part of the Guinness group in 2009.

He has been on SHiP’s Management Committee for 5 years and was elected Chair of SHiP in 2018.

Vicky Belsey

Vicky is the Vice-Chair of SHiP and the national Supported Agents Lead for Clarion Housing Association. Her career in social housing began in 2007 when she joined AmicusHorizon, working in private sector leasing, providing properties for Local Authorities and where she began working with managing agents in 2015. She joined Home Group in 2017 and was Manager of the Housing Partnership Team in the South. She joined Clarion Housing Association in January 2020 when she took on the new role of the national Supported Agents Lead for the UK's largest registered provider.

Wendy Angell Chair of SHiP General

Wendy Angell has nearly 30 years' experience in the supported housing sector. With a background in delivering front line services from resettlement to managing hostels and foyers, she has led the Agency Managed Portfolio for L&Q for over 14 years. Wendy is the current Chair for the SHiP General Meeting and has been a Management Committee member for 6 years.

Godfrey Heyman Chair of Agency Management Group

Godfrey is Agency Partnership Manager at Look Ahead Care & Support.He has 30 years’ experience in the sector, primarily within supported housing, and also as a housing inspector inspecting general needs housing associations and Supporting People programmes. His experience ranges from operational management of homeless projects to more strategic management roles as well as expertise in Agency Management service provision. He is particularly keen to continue developing excellent partnership between RPs and Managing Agents. He is also committed to developing SHiP’s work with members to advance and expand SHiP’s role and contribution within the Agency Managed and wider supported housing sector.

Alison Battersby SHiP Treasurer

Ali is Treasurer of SHiP. She has worked in housing for the past 9 years, and is accredited to Level 5’s with the Chartered Institute of Housing and also in Management. Ali previously worked for a Housing Association leading on their supported housing stock. Since moving to Norfolk, Ali now works for a charity as Assistant Director of Housing and Homelessness overseeing their Housing Related Support and Hostel services, Affordable accommodation, rents and service charges and managing relationships with RP’s. Ali is committed to her role on the management committee and sharing best practice throughout the sector.

Sarah Murphy

Brett Seath

Brett started his career in Nursing, training in Aberdeen 1993, and working in Newcastle, and the National Hospital in London. In 2002. Brett then took his career on a different path, by managing Mental Health, Drug & Alcohol and Homeless Services across London for Look Ahead (2002 to 2009), then joined the South London YMCA (2009 to 2013), to continue the same work. Brett has worked with Central and Cecil from 2013 to date, he currently manages the housing department.

Sean Sibley SHiP Management Committee 

A passionate housing professional, I started my housing life in a local housing office in Bristol, 2007.  A qualified and chartered member of CIH [Chartered Institute of Housing], I have managed housing for G15 and southwest landlords in general needs, supported housing, key worker and student accommodation.  For 3 years I had the pleasure of leading the Agency Managed Supported Housing business at Notting Hill Genesis [NHG].   Building relationships and influencing for positive change is something that drives me.   Working with SHiP colleagues has opened my eyes to a breadth of experience and kindness which continues to draw me to this wonderful adventure which is SHiP.

Jo Ellis

Jo is head of Accommodation Based Support at MacIntyre, following several years as Service Manager (Supported Housing) at Catalyst and Peabody. She started her housing career at Aldwyck working in various roles and has 20 years’ experience delivering Supported Housing and Floating Support. Jo is qualified in Housing Management to a post graduate level and is very customer focused and passionate about improving outcomes for our residents.

Martyn Fee

A Chartered member of CIH.  Martyn has worked with Guinness Partnership for the last 20 years, from 2009 onwards in Supported Housing.  As a Community Services Manager he led on the delivery of Supporting People funded housing-related support for older people.  From 2017, he has worked in Agency Management across the North working alongside a diverse set of managing agents, service users and property settings.   Martyn is the Chair of SHiP North and keen to continue developing the geographical reach of SHiP and building an ever more supportive and knowledgeable base of people and member organisations.

Sue Baxter

Sue has been a Facilitator for SHiP since 2016.  She has over 30 years’ experience in the supported and social housing sector including working for large Registered Providers and small managing agents.  Alongside SHiP she provides Housing Services for L'Arche a National Learning Disability Charity and Training and Consultancy for housing associations, local authorities and voluntary organisations in a freelance capacity. Sue is a keen advocate for customer voice most recently working alongside ‘experts by experience’ producing European-wide housing and support training materials.  She was also a co-author of LAG's Supported Housing and the Law 2021 2nd Edition. 

Wendy Green

Wendy has been SHiP’s Coordinator since 2019.

Wendy brings 25+ years’ experience, spanning supported housing, homelessness, general needs housing, social care, quality & compliance, training, bid writing and as a Trustee. 

Prior to her role at SHiP, Wendy was Consultancy Manager for Sitra and Homeless Link, where for 5 years she led the organisation’s successful consultancy offer to the sector.She has held two Director level posts –as Director of a specialist mental health charity in Sussex and as Director of a large Supported Housing Association in the SE, managing care services and supported housing for a range of client groups.She was Policy, Quality & Compliance Manager for In Touch (part of the Hyde Housing Group), leading on supported housing policy development and responsible for quality assurance and monitoring to achieve effective reporting to SMT and Board. Wendy understands the governance aspects of supported housing, having sat as Trustee of a Women’s Aid group, and as Trustee on several boards for people with a learning disability and a specialist young people’s charity.