EEDA - East of England Development Agency

Sheila Childerhouse

Deputy chair

Sheila has over 20 years’ experience in the NHS, beginning in 1984, as a member of the former Norfolk Family Practitioners Committee.

She was a non-executive director of North West Anglia Health Authority until 1999 and briefly with King’s Lynn and Wisbech Hospitals Trust before she became chair of the West Norfolk PCT in 2000. In 2005 Sheila moved across to become chair of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust in King's Lynn and in October 2006 became chair of the new NHS Norfolk.

Sheila was a high school teacher and a district councillor for over 24 years. She is a board member and deputy chair of EEDA. Sheila is chair of EEDA's Strategy Committee and is a member of EEDA's Remuneration and Selection Committee. Sheila is also chair of EEDA's migrant workers' steering group and EEDA’s champion for the Economic Participation core product, a member of the EERA Social Inclusion Panel and the Community and Voluntary Forum Eastern Region (COVER). She has a wide breadth of experience within the voluntary and community sector, particularly in urban and rural regeneration, and sits on the board of governors at a local primary school.

Sheila is also a partner in a family farming business.

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