Meet Our Trustees
The Charity of Amy Temple is managed entirely by volunteers who are all from St Margaret’s.
We have seven Trustees in total and two of them also have responsibiliy of being the Charity’s Clerk and Treasurer.
Our Trustees come from a range of backgrounds and bring different skills and experience.
They carry out all maintenance supervision, as well as clerical, legal and finance work associated with the running of the Charity.
They meet regularly to ensure that best almshouse management practice is followed and that the cottages are kept up-to-date and well maintained.
Trustees can be contacted via the Clerk at charityofamytemple@gmail.com
Bill Currie
Treasurer and Trustee
Bill is a retired chartered accountant who joined the Charity in 2007. He started his career in public accounting in London, Brussels and The Hague, followed by 30 years in the oil and gas upstream sector latterly as CFO and based in The Netherlands. He is married with 3 children and 5 grandchildren.
Claire Milligan
Trustee
Claire joined the Charity in 2019. She is a full time consultant in the pharmaceutical industry and mum to two children, who has lived in St Margaret's since 2007.
Richard Hall
Trustee
Richard is a local resident who joined the Charity in 2020. He is a retired Chartered Accountant and former transactions and advisory partner with Ernst & Young. He went to school in Dover and on his retirement moved to his house in St Margaret’s which he has owned since 2006.
Catherine Hilton
Trustee
Catherine is a retired solicitor who joined the Charity in 2017. She was formerly Partner in charge at Simmons & Simmons based in Brussels.
John Ford
Trustee
John is a local resident and is married to Stephanie Ford. He joined the Charity in 2018 following a career in the building trade and is in charge of all cottage maintenance issues for the Charity.
Stephanie Ford
Trustee
Stephanie lives in St Margaret's with her husband John Ford and became a Trustee for the Charity in May 2021, making it a family affair. She supports John as she is also a contact the residents can raise maintenance issues with.
Jacky Redwood
Clerk and Trustee
Jacky has been a local resident in St Margaret's since 2015 and previously worked for BT in Product Management. She became a Trustee in July 2021 and at the same time took over as Clerk for the Charity from Claire Milligan.
Amy Temple History
It all started in 1959
Amy Temple (1856-1955) born in St Margaret's and daughter of a Royal Navy Officer made provisions in her will for almshouses to be built for poor widows and spinsters who were over 60 years of age and had lived in St Margaret's for at least 10 years
Following the establishment of the Trust in 1959, a plot of land in Chapel Lane was bought where previously the tennis courts of the Cliffe Hotel had been. Three cottages were built and the first ladies took up residence in 1961. In the early 1990’s a fourth cottage was added.
New build development
In 2012 the Trustees carried out a study to understand the current need and demand for our type of accommodation. What they found was that although both our village and indeed the wider world had changed since the late 1950’s, there is still a strong demand for good quality, affordable accommodation for older single ladies of limited means.
On the strength of this study a further three larger cottages were built and the first residents moved into them in the summer of 2015.
Renovation of Cottages
Following the successful completion of the three new cottages, the Trustees decided to extend the four original cottages to provide improved sleeping arrangements, as well as renovating them all with modern fixtures and fittings of a high standard to ensure the Charity could offer residents the best accommodation possible which they would enjoy for many years to come.
August 2020 marked the completion of this work. Each cottage now has a full-size bedroom with fitted wardrobes replacing the original curtained-off alcove, as well as an extended and fully modernised bathroom, open plan kitchen and french doors leading to an outside terrace
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