Membership Details

Cllr John Howe joined June 2009

I have been a Totland Parish Councillor for about 33 years and have recently completed 10 years as Chairman of Totland Parish Council. I also had a previous term as an Isle of Wight Councillor for Totland.  I sit on a number of organisations locally in the West Wight Area including 3 School Governing Bodies, West Wight Nursery, West Wight Sports Centre and West Wight Youth Centre.  I am also a member of Children and Young Persons Committee on the Isle of Wight Council. 

I retired from GKN Aerospace 8 years ago having worked there as an aircraft electrician for over 30 years.

john.howe@iow.gov.uk

tel. 753414

Cllr Heather Humby joined 2002

Heather has been a councillor for Sandown on Sandown Shanklin Urban District Council, South Wight Borough Council and Sandown Town Council, and has served as Borough, and Town Mayor. More recently she was Chairman of Isle of Wight Council.

She sits on a number of local organisations, and is Chairman of IW Motor Neurone Disease Association, and also a member of the Albany Prison Independent Monitoring Board.
 

Prior to council service, she served in the WRNS, and also worked in the Pursers department of Cunard Steamship Company.

heather.humby@iow.gov.uk

tel. 402024

Cllr Susan Scoccia joined June 2009



I was educated at Watford Grammar School for Girls and then took a bi-lingual secretarial course at the Institut Francais du Royaume Uni, South Kensington. From there I went to Italy for 14 months to learn Italian.

I returned to London in 1979, and had a number of jobs mainly in the food and catering industry, and in particular enjoyed running Ciao Italia G.B., the Association of Italian Restaurateurs in Great Britain for a number of years.

We came to the Isle of Wight in 1994 to bring up our two daughters in a safer and healthier environment, and I keep the accounts of our business, working from home.

susan.scoccia@iow.gov.uk

tel. 852240

Cllr David Williams joined June 2009



I was born in Cornwall, and until the age of 33 lived in a small village called Constantine, near Falmouth. On leaving school at 16, I embarked on an apprenticeship as a mason and plasterer. At the age of 26, I took a change of direction and entered sales and marketing, which I did for 27 years.

In 1980 I moved to Birmingham, before settling on the Isle of Wight in 1988. At the age of 50, I took voluntary redundancy and am now self-employed as a plasterer.

I am active in the local community in Shanklin, and have recently completed a two-year term as Mayor of Shanklin. I have been a member of Shanklin Town Council since 1997. I am also Chairman of the Management Committee of Shanklin Conservative Club and a committee member of Shanklin Youth Club.

I have a keen interest in education matters and serve as a LEA Governor at Sandham Middle and Gatten & Lake Primary Schools in Shanklin.

david.williams@iow.gov.uk

tel. 865910

Anthony Brindle joined September 2007



A retired Company Director, qualified in engineering in the Royal Navy, subsequently undertaking service in the Merchant Navy as navigating officer and Master. He was responsible for inaugurating the first scheduled hovercraft services on the Solent and the English Channel before appointment to the Minister of Technology and to the United Nations Organisation as advisor on transport operations.

He has appeared in the High and Crown courts as an expert on maritime matters, was Chief Executive of companies engaged in Marine and Aviation Safety and Chairman of the board of trustees of a major international charity. Resident in Cowes, he is the author of works on Shipping, Hovercraft and Safety at Sea.

anthonybrindle@onwight.net

tel. 281947

Keith Fagan joined November 2005

Retired businessman. After several years of running large organisations on the mainland and ten successful years of owning and running his own company, Keith retired to The Island in 2004. Keith helps an Enterprise Team (Business Advisor) at Carisbrooke High School where students gain practical experience of business and enterprise through setting up and running their own real company. In addition he has taken up a position of Non Executive Director for a mainland company with offices in The United States and South Africa. Being an active member of the Bembridge Arts Society continues to fuel his passion for Art.

Keith joined the Ethical Standards Committee in 2005 to help promote high standards in public life on the Island.

k.fagan@virgin.net

tel. 874879

George Hibberd MBE joined April 2003



George is a native islander, and a solicitor by profession who retired in 2002 from partnership in a local law firm. He now works part time for the Tribunal Service as a chairman of panels dealing with disability benefits issues. He is also Chairman of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice and sits on the boards of a local housing association and archaeological heritage trust. His passion is for motorbikes.

georgehibberd@btinternet.com

tel. 522179

Liz Mackenzie joined December 2009



During my career I have been a director and trustee of a wide range of public, private and charitable organisations on the Island and in London.  I started my working life by training as a nurse (during this phase of my life I was a NUPE - as it was then - shop steward) and then I moved into public relations and marketing with a range of organisations, before becoming the Chief Executive of a Chamber of Commerce.  I then moved back to live on the Island.

On the Island I have been the chair of trustees of a pre school and a parent governor of a primary school.  I am currently a Non Executive Director of the Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust, a lay advisor to the Wessex Deanery (which oversees the training of junior doctors), a member of the Standards Committee of the Hampshire Police Authority and the Chair of Trustees of Northwood House.

Tel. 07962 018879

Ray Smith OBE joined December 2009



Ray is a civil engineer by training and worked for the civil service, serving for nearly 30 years throughout UK, including in Germany for 4 years. The main focus of his career was construction design, project and facility management and procurement. Ray like many other island residents first fell in love with the island on post-war family holidays. His parents moved to the island in the early 1970s and his own children, now grown up with children of their own, visit Ray at Bembridge, where he has lived since 2000. Since retirement Ray has provided independent consultancy services with his wife – supporting international development, democracy and governance and working in the Palestinian territories and East Africa.

raysmith46@hotmail.com

Tel. 07967 496313

Mark Southwell (Chairman) joined November 2005



Retired Customs Officer, married with two teenage children and a resident of Cowes. Mark spent most of his career on the Island and afloat around the Solent on Customs patrol vessels instructing other officers on boat handling and coastal intelligence. His last post in Customs was to investigate complaints made against officers by the public and trade.

He is actively involved in sailing on the Island at Gurnard and Cowes and helps run the racing during Cowes Week he now looks forward to the 2011 Island Games as the organiser of sailing for the games. He joined Cowes RNLI in July 2008 and runs the lifeboat and station on behalf on the RNLI as a volunteer. Mark joined the committee in 2005 and was appointed Chairman in April 2007.

mark.southwell@onwight.net

tel. 299104

Peter Tautz joined September 2007



Peter a former Police Officer serving on the Isle of Wight and Hampshire is now employed as a gardener working in many private gardens in the Seaview and Nettlestone area.  He is also well known as ‘The Wight Toastmaster’ being a professional toastmaster and member of The London Guild of Toastmasters. He is a married man with three adult children all living on the mainland.

tautz@tesco.net

tel. 613571

Ron Mew joined July 2002

Ron retired from the gas Industry after 40 years service. He served as a shop steward and branch secretary for a number of years. He has been a Parish Councillor at Godshill for 30 years. In 1987 he received the British Empire Medal for services rendered to industry and community, for which he felt greatly honoured.

Over the years he has been secretary and treasurer to Godshill Cricket Club. At the present time he is a team captain of a Bowls Club at Shanklin.

He has been on the Committee for the past six years.

rw.mew21@btinternet.com

tel. 840752

Denis Russell joined July 2002



Denis was born at Westcourt Farm, Shorwell and has lived there all his life. He has farmed Westcourt with his family since the death of his father in 1955.

He was elected onto Shorwell Parish Council in 1964 and was Chairman from 1969 – 1994. He was a member of South Wight Borough Council from 1994 until it ceased to be when the Unitary Authority was created, the last two years of South Wight Borough Council he was privileged to be Chairman of the planning committee. He has always been interested in Local Government and has always served as an independent member.

denisrussell@btinternet.com

tel. 740485

Richard Day joined 30 January 2006



Richard has lived on the Island from 1973 since marrying his wife Rosalyn.  He has 2 grown-up children and 2 grand children.  He worked on the Island for Plessey from 1973 until 1989 when he joined a sub contractor of Plessey but continued working on the site until taking early retirement in 2005.  Since then he had worked part time for Sainsbury's on the checkouts, but is now fully retired.  His hobbies are reading, Star Trek and Nature Conservation.  He joined Gurnard Parish Council in 2002, being currently Chairman and has served on a variety of sub committees for the Parish as well as being a Tree Warden.  He is currently Treasurer of IW Association of Local Councils. He also serves as Nature Conservation Officer on the committee of Friends of Northwood Cemetery.

richard_day_272@hotmail.com

tel. 295927

John Ward joined July 2010


johnward.iow@talktalk.net

tel. 07949 130230