It is with great pleasure we announce the appointment to our Board of Directors, Nadra Ahmed CBE DL, Co-Chair of the National Care Association (NCA), UK.
Nadra has been involved in the field of Social Care for over 40 years. Her background is in training and education, which has been the passion that drives her towards quality service underpinned and provided by a skilled and valued workforce.
She has been the Chair of the NCA since 2001 and is a trustee of Royal British Legion Industries and Governor at Canterbury Christchurch University. She is also one of the Co-Convenor of the Cavendish Coalition, formed to work with the NHS and Unison to support workforce issues in Health and Social Care pre-Brexit. Nadra is currently the current Chair of the Care Provider Alliance which brings together 11 national representative bodies in the sector.
Other positions Nadra holds within voluntary organisations delivering services to vulnerable people in the community include:
- Vice President of HiKent a charity supporting people with hearing loss,
- Patron of Rockdale Housing supporting older citizens through a pathway of care and support
- Vice Patron of Kent Autistic Society
- Trustee of Spadeworks which is a charity to support younger adult s with learning disabilities to learn skills and run a garden centre.
- Patron of Project Wingman which supports Health and Care staff’s wellbeing using an equipped bus offering wellbeing advice, often in car parks in Hospitals.
She has been a member of a number of Government advisory committees in the UK Government’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) including at Ministerial level and Government Taskforces. Through the Covid pandemic Nadra was the respected voice of care providers consistently both privately with DHSC and publicly.
Nadra is a regular contributor to journals and conferences and is frequently called upon by major media networks to represent the views of Social Care providers both nationally and internationally.
In recognition of her continued services to Social Care, Nadra was awarded an OBE in 2006, and the CBE in 2023. Outside of social care, Nadra is deeply committed to her local community, and in March 2023, took over the role of High Sheriff of Kent.
Read more about Nadra’s work and experience here.
“It is an honour and a privilege to be appointed to the CommanAge Board, especially as it celebrates its first decade. At a time where there are so many challenges that face our countries in supporting elders I am looking forward to learning from my colleagues on the Board and working together to share knowledge, experience, and good practice” says Nadra.
“We have an opportunity to continue to evolve and create solutions for elders across the globe. As a person of Asian origin, born in Africa and raised in England I am very much looking forward to widening my own experience too.”
CommonAge Chair, Andrew Larpent, says “We are delighted Nadra accepted our invitation to join the CommonAge Board. She brings with her immense knowledge and vast experience both at a personal level and as a prominent leader in the field of social care. Our Board of Directors are all volunteers, and are deeply committed to ensure older people are fully recognised in society, and are supported and enabled to live well in an all-age friendly Commonwealth.”
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