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Wellbeing Regeneration's Board of Directors
The Directors have a reputation for achievement, vision, quality, innovation, flexibility, responsiveness and professionalism. Additionally, and most importantly, we care, share fundamental values, are proud of our integrity and together provide a wealth of experience and expertise. Wellbeing Regeneration aims to be proactive and dynamic in its development, acting as an agent for change.
Wellbeing Regeneration’s Board of Directors comprises three professional women with extensive, diverse backgrounds. The Board is jointly responsible for ensuring the Company upholds it values and high ethical standards, delivers its aims and objectives and is collectively accountable for the Company’s Governance, solvency, compliance with all its obligations and strategic direction.
 GILL WEBBER MSc
Managing Director
Gill specialises in strategic planning, community development, health and wellbeing, the arts, lifelong learning, social enterprise, older people and carers. Gill has achieved a high profile locally and nationally for excellence and is widely acknowledged as one of the leading third sector community health development practitioners in Wales. She has also gained recognition as a multi-skilled, talented and dedicated senior manager.
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VAL THOMAS MScEcon
Non-executive Director
 Val's background is in equality and diversity, lifelong learning, personal development training, human resources, health and safety, quality management, governance, systems thinking and process management.
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 ALYSON JENKINS MA
Non-executive Director
Alyson has had a varied career in environmental and development education, community dance, research management and Lifelong Learning project management. She also specialises in social marketing, widening access and personal development.
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Gill Webber: Managing (Executive) Director
Gill has over thirty years’ extensive strategic and operational experience in all sectors; with an impressive pervasive expertise, her focus is on social support, individual and community empowerment, regeneration, partnership working and business development. Gill is passionate and determined about helping people (especially those over the age of 50, the disabled and carers) to improve and enjoy their lives and her particular interests lie in health, wellbeing, the arts and lifelong learning. She herself has been a lifelong learner, taking advantage of every opportunity to personally develop culminating in her achievement of a Masters Degree in Community Regeneration.
As well as holding key senior positions, Gill previously ran her own successful business for almost 16 years providing management and business support, training and consultancy services.
At national level, she is a member of: the All Wales NGO Wellbeing Steering Group (Wellbeing Wales); the Ageing Well in Wales Network; the All Wales Mental Health Promotion Network and the Physical Activity and Nutrition Network. Gill was a member of the Big Lottery Fund Policy Advisory Group for Healthy Living Centres, a prominent member of the Welsh Healthy Living Centre Network and has significantly contributed to major evaluations of similar projects commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government, Big Lottery Fund and Age Concern.
At a local level, Gill is Chair of of the Board of Trustees of Swansea YMCA, Vice-Chair of 'Age Positive' in Carmarthenshire, an Executive Board member of Glanymor & Tyisha Communities First Partnership, a member of Felinfoel Communities First Partnership, a voluntary sector member of Carmarthenshire’s Community Health Council, a member of Carmarthenshire's 50+ Partnership and a member of CAVS Health and Wellbeing Forum.
Gill was previously the Head of Carmarthenshire’s Foothold Community Specialists’ Wellbeing Division responsible for managing successful and popular initiatives such as The Health and Wellbeing Project for the over 50s, an ICT project for older people and their carers, Carmarthenshire’s older person’s newspaper ‘Prime Times’, the multi-partnership ‘Arts Hub’ and the pilot foot care project ‘Happy Feet’.
Gill's greatest success whilst in Foothold was the Healthy Living Centre. The project applied a holistic approach to enabling community health and wellbeing improvement and transformed lives beyond measure. The initiative offered a wide range of programmes covering exercise, sport, dance, nutrition, social activities, martial arts, lifelong learning, information and advice and equally importantly, provided volunteering opportunities for 115 people. The project's catchment area comprised five deprived wards in Llanelli and supported the over 50s to improve their quality of life. Within five years, over 18,000 people had accessed the project, it had a regular participating membership of over 900 people, ran more than 40 different types of outreach activity and service each week, raised over £1.3M in welfare benefits for its beneficiaries and established 18 vibrant self-sustaining constituted groups of interest who still continue to meet and enjoy their new found friendships, interests and improved quality of life.
In 2007, the Ageing Well Project, which Gill managed whilst Head of Wellbeing at Foothold was the only scheme in Wales chosen to attend a reception in Clarence House hosted by the Prince of Wales in recognition of its intergenerational achievements.
Gill has always been a very active volunteer, having previously been a founder member and subsequent Chair of Trustees over many years for XL Wales, an educational charity based in South and West Wales providing innovative learning, invention and discovery opportunities for primary school children and their families. She has also founded and led many other smaller community activities. Other voluntary experience includes Chairing and undertaking other key roles for primary and secondary school PTAs and other fundraising efforts for various local and national charities.
She has earned a reputation for being visionary, a strong and innovative leader, passionate about her work who motivates others with infectious, energetic enthusiasm. Gill’s compelling determination to succeed in achieving the best possible outcome for beneficiaries and clients and to meet individual and community need has led to wide acknowledgement that she creates 'models of excellence'.
Val Thomas: Non-Executive Director
Val is a professional senior manager with over thirty years’ experience in the public, private, voluntary and community sectors in several countries. Her background includes company governance, human resources, equality and diversity, strategic management, business planning, project delivery, research, analysis and training. She has a particular enthusiasm for continuous improvement, personal development and a proven ability to initiate, support and manage change.
Parallel threads in Val’s working life have been equal opportunities, learning and quality management. Since 1981 she has developed, designed and delivered training courses and seminars on various topics including initial management, counselling, health & safety, industrial relations, leadership and assertiveness.
Alongside these professional elements, Val has been an active citizen. She chaired the South Wales district of the Workers Educational Association for five years. There she taught lay tutors to become trainers, and was a Personal Safety First Tutor for the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. For her Masters degree, she undertook research into bullying at work. For six years, she was the Head of DVLA’s Business Support and Training Unit with overall responsibility for the training programmes for its UK wide workforce of 3,500 staff, as well as the provision of efficiency and other management services.
She led the team that undertook the Best Value Review of Training for Lancashire Constabulary. As the Chief Officer of the British Deming Association she was involved with Quality movement worldwide, speaking and organising UK and international conferences as companies and individuals sought improvement through systems thinking and process management.
Val also headed the South West Wales Open College Network, where she built an unstoppable team who together turned the organisation from a failing business to one recognised for its professional approaches to accreditation and quality assurance in education.
Alyson Jenkins - Non-Executive Director
Alyson has had a varied career, all of which she has enjoyed and all of which has contributed to a mixed bag of skills. She has worked in Development Education and Environmental Education, working with all ages, across all education sectors. She helped write and pilot teaching materials, delivered teacher training and developed learning programmes and strategies; there was also a brief interlude as a presenter on a Welsh nature programme!
A career change as the Development Officer for Community Dance Wales provided new experiences and perspectives. There she wrote successful funding bids and secured funding for research into training needs of community dance practitioners in Wales. She helped develop a strategic approach to funding and business planning, took a lead on monitoring and evaluation strategies and methods, supported organisations in PR and marketing and also delivered marketing training.
As research manager in the School of Health Science at Swansea University she gained experience of developing research proposals and a knowledge of research methods. More recently she managed large Lifelong Learning projects in Carmarthenshire and Swansea.
Alyson was chair of TAN Dance (the community dance organisation for Neath Port Talbot) for many years and has been on the board of management of other voluntary sector and community groups including a local WEA (Workers Education Association) branch and Women’s Aid.
Now living in Gellinudd near Pontardawe, Alyson has two daughters, loves walking, reading and films and of course dance and dancing. She is a fluent Welsh speaker. Her formal qualifications are a degree in Geology, a PGCE and an MA in Education.
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