Exec Team

Deborah is a community activist and has joined the Board for one year from January 2017 to support the success of the Irving Building Project. She has been a prime mover in this. Deborah first trained as an occupational therapist in Oxford in the early 80s, then worked and campaigned in the Middle East. She returned to Oxford in 1992, becoming a City and then a County Councillor. Apart from her interest in addressing the challenges of housing in Oxford (through co-housing and Homes for Oxford) she is part of Oxford GreenPrint workers co-op, is a founder member/manager of South Oxford Farmers and Community Market and is working to set up a local micro-dairy. She is a widow and the mother of two teenagers and has lived in South Oxford for 23 years.