About us...
OACP is
YOUR Care Association
for Oxfordshire
We're YOUR
contact point,
advocate
and
representative
in the
Adult Social Care
sector in
Oxfordshire, regionally and
nationally.
As YOUR membership organisation, we represent all Adult Social Care Providers across Oxfordshire and through our wider family, the Care Association Alliance, we take YOUR issues all the way to Government.
Our members include Care and Nursing Homes, Domiciliary Care (Home Care), Live-in-Care, Day Care, Supported Living, Shared Lives and many other Community and Charity support services.
Meet our Admin and Engagement Team
Eddy McDowall
Eddy is our Chief Executive and has worked in adult social care for nearly 40 years in local government and also at the Department of Health and with the Local Government Association.
He has wide-ranging experience of leading partnership projects with diverse memberships.
Lisa Leah
Lisa is our Operations Manager overseeing OACP’s events and external partnerships and oversees delivery of our International Recruitment project.
Lisa joined
OACP
in April 2021 and has many years of working in
the hospitality sector.
Catherine Newport
Cath is our Administrator and first contact for OACP. Cath is our go-to person for sorting out our IT issues and has excellent knowledge of all things Apple and Microsoft.
Meet our Digital Team
Angela McNally
Angie joined the OACP team in October 2022 supporting completion of the BOB ICS Digital Social Care Record survey. Angie leads all of our digital project, including the national large provider and new provider projects.
Meet our Trusted Assessors
Valerie Jarvis
Valerie joined
OACP
in October 2022 having extensive experience
working as a Registered Manager since 1991.
Rachel Adams
Rachel joined OACP in early November 2024 bringing experience of working with people with dementia, care home settings and supported housing.
Buckinghamshire Partnership
Alona Tokvus
Alona joined OACP in September 2024 and leads work with our BCPA partners in Buckinghamshire overseeing the Bucks Homestay project. Alona has significant skills in social media and design.
Our Board of Directors
Mike Corran
Joined us in May 2021 as
our Independent Chair.
He previously had a 35-year career in retail banking with senior roles in procurement, leading major change programmes, building external partnerships
and crisis management.
Liz Clements
Liz is Regional Operations Manager for
Hartford Care
in the Home Counties.
Liz has an extensive track record of clinical leadership and end of life expertise
and leads our End of Life Network.
John Cascone
John is Managing Director of Caremark (West Oxfordshire and Cherwell) and brings 30 years of sales and marketing knowledge to the Board.
Mark Collins
Mark is Business Director at Oxford Private Care, a family-run business, and brings an understanding of domiciliary care delivery and wide-ranging business experience.
Chris Ingram
Chris is CEO at Style Acre,
an Oxfordshire-based provider of supported living services for people with a learning disability.
Patsy Just
Patsy is Operations Director at The Orders of St John Care Trust, a large provider of care homes and extra care housing support across Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Lincolnshire.
Katy Trueman
Katy is Director and Manager of Enable Health, a local home care provider that has delivered care services in Oxfordshire since 2013.
Charles Taylor
Charles is Director of Taylor & Taylor Care, a three-generation family business, which runs two nursing homes, The Julie Richardson and Banbury Heights. Charles is Chair of the Oxfordshire Care home Association.
