Chitterne Community Benefit Society
The Chitterne Community Pub Group was set up in 2017 in order to find a way of saving the King's Head for the village. It is a Community Benefit Society, registered with the Financial Conduct Authority and subject to annual reporting.
The Society will be the vehicle to realise any proposals for projects to improve the life of the community; the pub is the first such project. The society will rent out the pub to an experienced professional tenant who will be responsible for the operation of the pub. Performance will be monitored to ensure that the pub delivers the intended benefits, while allowing the tenant to make a sustainable profit and earn their living.
Our team
The Directors and members of the committee will serve until the first Annual General Meeting before automatically standing down, or volunteering to serve again.
Chair, Director
Richard Hendrickse
Richard took over from Ian Bell as Chairman in March 23. He is an IT Consultant, currently working for the MOD in the provision of digital services. He has lived in Chitterne for over 12 years with his wife and 2 children. He is a Director of the Acorn Education Multi Academy Trust, a coach at Salisbury Rugby Club, and Treasurer of Chitterne Cricket Club. In his previous life, he served in the Royal Artillery for 20 years.
Company Secretary, Director
John Terry
Director and Company Secretary: Chitterne's John Terry is, unfortunately, not the ex-England and Chelsea footballer which is a shame because, if he was, then he could have funded the pub acquisition from a couple of weeks wages. This JT is an accountant who has recently returned to the UK after 12 years managing a successful business on the Caribbean island of Nevis
Director
Aileen Fenlon
Aileen has worked for 15 years as part of the local authority public protection and housing departments and understands the importance of community in supporting vulnerable residents but also in bringing people together to improve health and well-being and general happiness of a community. She has lived in Chitterne for over 20 years and was instrumental in securing funding for the redevelopment of the play area during her tenure as chair of the Parish Council.
Director
Mike Neve
Mike has lived in the village with wife Anne since 1994. Mike has spent a life in the hotel, restaurant, bar and meetings business almost exclusively in London and has just retired from running The Bloomsbury Hotel which he has done for the last 20 years. Its current bars, The Coral Room and Bloomsbury Club Bar, are very popular in central London, as is its restaurant Dalloway Terrace. He has worked for his company for over 30 years and has run other hotels and catering operations in both London and Dublin.
Director
Peter Emmerson
Peter first came to Wiltshire in 1969 with Computing Devices of Canada as an avionics engineer on the development trials of the Nimrod aircraft at Boscombe Down. A career change took him into the seafood industry with Flying Goose. Subsequently as Marketing Manager under Allied Lyons he was responsible for the name change to Lyons Seafoods Ltd. After two years in Scotland as Sales & Marketing Director of Inlakes Seafoods, he returned to Wiltshire to set up Peter Emmerson & Associates Marketing Consultancy.
Director
John Dillon
John has lived in the village for 15 years and is currently on the Parish Council. He has spent his career working in archaeology for national companies based in southern England. A combination of commercial and operational roles as well as many year's experience of charitable boards.
Member
Richard Parkes
Richard first came to the village in 1998, and knew the King’s Head when it was a busy village pub, both under Tim and Helen and later under John Croft. He returned in 2014 after several years away, and would like to see the pub become once again a popular asset for the whole village. He is a former barrister who writes and edits books on the law.
Member
Ian Bell
Commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1984, Ian Bell spent most of the next 34 years in various operational and overseas theatres. He commanded 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and finished his military career as Commander British Forces Germany. He left the Army to become CEO of the British Association for Shooting and Conversation, the largest organisation of its type in the UK and Europe; a community benefit society with over 150,000 members.
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