The Wilson Home Trust

Wilson Home Trust Management Committee

The Wilson Home Trust Management Committee is appointed by the Trustee, the Waitemata District Health Board (WDHB) formerly Waitamata Health Ltd and the Auckland Branch of CCS Disability Action , to manage the Trust. The Committee takes responsibility for the effective governance of the Trust and delegates a number of day to day management functions to the Trust staff, in particular the Trust Director.

Brian Donnelly

Brian is an independent appointee by the Waitemata District Health Board and the current chair of the Management Committee

Brian worked for over 25 years in senior and executive management roles in the public service of New Zealand and Australia, before more recently focussing his efforts towards the not for profit sector. His primary role now is Executive Director of NZ Housing Foundation, a charitable organisation providing housing support for the elderly, homeless, and people with disability and mental health housing needs.

Brian has lived and raised a family on the North Shore for the last 25 years and has also been a significant contributor to the community through his sporting interests.

Brian is currently also a Trustee of the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust, Board member of the Centre for Housing Research in New Zealand, and member of the NZ Social Entrepreneur Fellowship.

Fraser Boddy

Fraser, a representative of CCS Disability Action Auckland, was appointed to the Management Committee of the Wilson Home in May 1999

Fraser grew up in Dunedin and graduated with a B Comm from Otago University having studied economics and accountancy. He became a Chartered Accountant (now retired) and is a past member of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (MREINZ).

His working life was with the Fletcher Challenge Group where in more recent years he held positions of:

Resident Director, Fletcher Challenge Latin America, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Executive Chairman, of the Groups retail activities which included American Express NZ, Centurion Finance, Group Rentals, Hertz Rentals, Hertz Lease, Selectrix, Selectrix Finance, Wheel Lease, Wrightcars, and Wrightcars Finance.
He was also a director of Toyota NZ and Liquigas,
Fraser, now living in Auckland, is an Investment Fiduciary™ providing financial services to charitable and family trusts, institutions and high net worth individuals.

Fraser gives his “pro bono” time to helping “achieve a better future for people with disabilities”. He has been on the National Board of CCS Disability Action, the Executive Committee of CCS Disability Action Auckland and a trustee of the Jubilee Trust.

Lynne Coleman

Dr Lynne Coleman is a WDHB appointee to the Wilson Home Trust. Lynne is in her third term elected to the WDHB. Lynne also chairs the Quality and Risk Committee for the WDHB.

Lynne has lived on the North Shore from age 7yrs, was schooled on the North Shore and went to Auckland University. Lynne is married with five children and now lives with her family and her parents at Dairy Flat in the Rodney District.

Lynne works as a general practitioner and sports doctor at the Apollo Centre for Health and Wellness in Albany. Lynne has led the Health Team for Commonwealth and most recently the Beijing Olympics. She also sits on the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand. She is also a trustee on the Harbour Sport Trust.

Mary Lythe

Mary is nominated by the WDHB to the Wilson Home Trust.
She has been involved in the Not-For-Profit sector for several years and is presently the Clinical services Manager for Alzheimers Auckland Inc. and responsible for a team of Advisors providing support, education, assessment and advocacy for those affected by Dementia and their Carers.

Mary is a Registered Nurse with a background in public, private and community based nursing as well as community health and nursing education. She is a graduate of Auckland University in Psychology and Education.

Mary is on the Board of the WDHB and Chair of the Disability Support
Advisory Committee and a member of several other Committees - Community and Public Health Advisory Committee, the Hospital Advisory Committee, the Quality and Risk Committee and the Maori Health Gain Advisory Committee.
Mary is determined to maximise every opportunity to make life better for those with impairment.

Russell Vickery

Russell is a CCS Disability Action Nominee. He has an extensive background in the Not For Profit sector specifically in the Disability area. He has held various roles both in management and governance of a range of different organisation and currently serves on the TalkLink and Ripple Trust boards.

Russell has tertiary qualifications specialising in Disability Studies and has presented at various national and international conferences on a variety of topics related to disability issues. He was a member of the New Zealand Paraplegic Boat Team on their Egyptian and Samoan trips. In his early days Russell along with his brother spent time in Wilson Home rehabilitating from various operations in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.