

I am married with two grown up children and will frequently be seen walking along Bexhill seafront with our Golden Retriever.
I have been a School Governor at St Peter and St Paul C of E Primary School and currently a Trustee with Homecall which is a Bexhill charity which provides a Home Visiting service for the Visually Impaired.

As Project Lead for the Volunteer Hub, you can contact me about trustee recruitment or volunteer training at jen.atherall@rva.uk.com, or anything else about volunteering to either myself or annette.holmes@rva.uk.com.

I have always loved working with the community and find it extremely inspiring to be able to see individual’s, communities and services grow. I have worked in front line support, front line management and service management. I have always seen the value in client / community led services and therefore have a great passion for the ABCD ‘Asset Based Community Development’ approach.
I have been a resident in Rother my whole life alongside many generations in my family. It’s a beautiful place to live. I have three young boys that keep me very busy in my spare time. We enjoy taking the dog for walks and heading to the seafront to watch the sunrise and sunset.
I love watching nature and especially love to see buzzards flying over the Highwoods in Bexhill.

I also lead on the I Know How project which is an Interreg project concentrating on assisting people with a cancer diagnosis to return to work.
My main interests include running around the local footpaths especially with various kids in tow and swimming in the local rivers as well as a lifelong interest in plants.

I really enjoy the role, it’s great to be involved in helping local people to deliver what’s needed in they would like to see in their own neighbourhoods.
I have lived in Rother and brought up my family for over 40 years. I’m now enjoying being a Grandparent and doing childcare two days a week.
In my spare time I really enjoy going to live/theatre music events and the local countryside.

Between now and March 2023, I will complete the delivery of HAIRE (Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe) project in partnership with East Sussex County Council.
My ongoing role is to work with Rother District Council, East Sussex County Council, community groups, organisations and residents to coordinate and deliver a community asset-based approach to embed age-friendly principles across Rother.
My background spans consumer insight, marketing, and public arts events production across Hastings, Rother and the Southeast.
I’m really enjoying my role at RVA. It’s rewarding to work with local people and organisations to help Rother fulfil its goal as an Age Friendly Community – a community that supports residents to live happy and healthy lives as we age.

I started working at RVA in October 2020 on the HAIRE Project (Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe). On completion of this project, I took on the role of volunteer co-ordinator working with volunteers and Volunteer Involving Organisations in building a thriving volunteering culture in Rother.
I believe volunteering should be open to everyone, with all kinds of volunteering roles available, and has many benefits, mental, physical and spiritual, for those who do it.
Along with walking our lovely dog around the beautiful Rother countryside and beaches, I enjoy gardening, cooking and eating!


In my spare time, I enjoy days out with my family, reading and I am a regular blood donor. I am married, live in Bexhill and have an 20 month old Little Boy, who keeps me young and on my toes!