Mustard Seed Property

Stephen is a Chartered Accountant, having trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers. For many years he has been Finance Director for a variety of enterprises, most recently at Cornwall Care, the largest provider of adult social care in the county. Since 2019, he has acted as a Finance and Business Adviser to a range of enterprises. Aside from his involvement with MSP, he is also a trustee of Emmaus Cornwall, a charity supporting the homeless, which itself is in need a property and land. He is dad to a young adult with a learning disability.

Qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen. She then created a global HR Consulting business Penna Consulting PLC where she was CEO and Chairman for ten years. She currently works with a number of fledgling charities and social enterprises in Cornwall.

Adam is a qualified and experienced counsellor specialising in working with trauma and addiction. He has worked in Family Assessment, Residential Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation, and Supported Housing. He is the founder and Managing Director of the Bideford Lighthouse Project CIC and joined MSP as a partner for the Newquay Lighthouse Project CIC.

A member of MSP from the beginning, Lynn is a counsellor, manager and supports people with learning disabilities. She ran her own small upholstery business for 28 years. Lynn brings particular knowledge and skills in serving the people supported by the partner charities of MSP and leads on social impact and ensuring MSP delivers for vulnerable people. Lynn is also a trustee director of Mustard Seed (SW), which is one of MSP’s founding partners.

Richard has over 35 years’ experience as a Chartered Surveyor working throughout the South West region. Following ten years as a partner in Knight Frank he set up Maze, an Exeter based consultancy business, dealing with residential and commercial work. He specialises in Planning and Development but typically works with corporate clients and charities on acquisition and portfolio enhancement.

Steve worked for the Probation service for 11 years at a Bail Hostel, and also worked as bank staff for ten years for Spectrum supporting Autistic adults. Steve joined St Petroc’s in 2004, initially as a weekend house manager, then graduating to service manager and now as the Associate Director of Residential Services.

Charles is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Fellow of the Royal institution of Chartered Surveyors (and also a Senior Investment Manager at Resonance Limited). He has over 30 years’ experience of working in all sectors of the property environment, both in the UK and mainland Europe.  He was previously an Equity Partner with EC Harris (now Arcadis) and is now part of the Resonance team with a focus on delivering projects for a new impact investment fund, “Resonance Community Developers”. Charles supports MSP on the purchase, development, and refurbishment of their properties. 

Daniel is CEO of Resonance Limited where he leads a growing team supporting social enterprises and charities prepare for investment in a variety of transactions including real estate acquisition and development, community share issues and direct venture capital investments. He has seen the company flourish as it has created demand-led, impact investment funds. Daniel founded Resonance in 2002 having spent several years in manufacturing as an engineer and leading a political lobbying campaign on the UK poverty trap.   Outside work Daniel is a non-exec of a small number of high impact social enterprises and part of the advisory council of a leading impact investor foundation.

Nick works in the finance team at Resonance. Previously he worked within the finance industry for nine years, with the most recent four years spent in the finance team of a local Cornish charity. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in accounting, and is currently working towards becoming a Chartered Accountant through ACCA. Nick supports MSP with all finance and accounting functions, including management accounts, payment of invoices and liaising with suppliers.