Board

The Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing First Community's operations and affairs. The Board is also responsible for ensuring that First Community Health and Care CIC is organised and operated in a manner consistent with its Articles of Association as an employee owned social enterprise.

Each quarter we issue a Board Brief, which provides the latest updates from key areas of our business including: updates from Board meetings; the ongoing work of our shareholder representative group - our Council of Governors; and news from our Community Forum and the First Community Network. All of these play an integral role in shaping our services and are the heart of our organisational governance structure. If you would like to receive a copy please contact us.

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Sarah Tomkins

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Sarah joins us from CSH Surrey where she has been working as the Director of Adult Services. Sarah has been with CSH Surrey working across Children and Families, Corporate and Adult Services for the past eight years.

The beginning of Sarah's healthcare career was when she started working as a carer for a child with learning disabilities. This inspired her to work as a Health Care Assistant and before starting Paediatric Nurse training in 1993, enticed by the notion of being kind, making a difference, and having a role in helping people develop and maintain independence.

Sarah has worked in Surrey and Southwest London in Acute services, Mental Health, Health and Social Care, Education, Community Services and  the Youth Justice Community team.

The breadth of Sarah's experience and her diversity of theoretical approaches to care have been developed by the achievement of two MSCs in health related subjects, and the Nye Bevan NHS Leadership Academy Award in Executive Healthcare Leadership.

Sarah is also the Chair of Walton Charity, a charitable organisation supporting people in Elmbridge who are experiencing financial hardship.  The charity seeks to achieve this by alleviating financial poverty and hardship, promoting personal health and wellbeing, addressing isolation and loneliness, promoting affordable housing for all ages and working to improve educational attainment.