TCCOA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Andy Marshall ( Chairman )
Me and Barbara bought our chalet in 2010 as a bolt-hole for us and our family (3 children, 4 grandchildren). Circumstances changed and we now only occasional use the chalet ourselves, let as a holiday-home at other times. My background is in business and financial management and I offered my services to TCCOA as a mediator in an ongoing, protracted legal dispute. Subsequently I was appointed a Director in 2013 and, once the legal dispute was settled (out-of-court), I devoted my energies to introducing a formal management structure, a computerised management accounting system and a risk management strategy.
I am from a local Millbrook family and my grandparents and parents bought our Chalet in the 60's. I have been lucky enough to grow up with Whitsands being a huge part of my life. For the last 10 years I have been privileged in making Whitsands my full time home opting for a simpler life in the chalet. My work is now largely based in connecting children with nature and a huge part of my decision to live on the cliff was my own desire to live closer to nature. I feel passionately about our responsibility to keep this special place as peaceful and respectful to the natural habitat we share here. I am also passionate about reducing the waste we produce which has brought me to be a director to look at how we can all work together on recycling as much as possible, reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.
I have been a freelance office administrator for a number of years and was asked to take over the TCCOA admin. when the previous secretary retired at the end of 2012. The subsequent few years have passed in a whirl of change as, with Andy Marshall instigating new processes, we have gradually brought the company's financial management and accounting procedures up-to-date and endeavoured to make the company more transparent in its practices. As the interface between the directors and the shareholders, I try to be both friendly and professional (not always easy!) and to maintain good relations with and between everyone on the cliff. Sometimes I even succeed.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Andy Marshall ( Chairman )
I moved onto the cliff in the summer of 2005. When I first arrived here I noticed how naturallly beautiful and unspoilt the area was. I was in the Army at that time and we moved here because of my wife's life time connection with the area. Then a year later in 2006 my wife and I took on the Cliff Top Cafe.Once we became owners of the cafe, this was the first time I found out what the TCCOA did. I decided to volunteer to become part of the TCCOA committee so that I had an understanding of how things worked on the Cliff and how decisions were made. I also enjoy getting involved in some of the practical aspects of maintenance. Also as we live here all year round I am always here as a point of contact and help.
I'm Tracy Brady and I'm one of the newer members of TOCCA's board of directors joining in 2016 due to there being a vacancy and requirement for a member of the board to assist with the structural maintenance of the Tregonhawke site.
I'm also a director with Lang Town & Country Estates & Letting Agency and have many years' experience at high level board management. My husband Steve is an ex-MOD Secure Communications Engineer with over 40 years' experience in his field.
Our chalet has been in Steve's family since the early 1980's and a few years ago we were gifted the land from his parents Val & Ken and immediately set about plans for a complete re-construction which came to fruition at the turn of this year.
We see many wonderful years of retirement ahead in this most beautiful part of Cornwall and buoyed by both the new generation of ownership the cliff seems to be currently experiencing and the optimism and devotion of the current board, we want to be able to put past divides behind us and establish membership of TOCCA as the primary driving force for the protection and welfare of each and every owner on the cliff.