Group Development Committee
The Group Development Committee is responsible for assisting the Board in fulfilling its development responsibilities and monitors the performance of such activities across the Bolton at Home Group.
Charles Dunn
Charlie is currently an Associate Director with Leading project management company Turner & Townsend and brings over 30 years’ of leadership experience across the construction and property development sectors, working with major organisations throughout the North of England, the Midlands, and Scotland. Over the last 12 years, he has specialised in the social housing sector, delivering significant land‑led development programmes and large‑scale asset renewal projects across a range of tenures. His work includes traditional construction, modern methods of construction, and the delivery of sustainable technologies such as solar PV and ground‑source heat pumps.
Alongside his executive career, Charles has extensive non‑executive experience with housing associations including First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO), Yorkshire Housing, and Incommunities. He currently sits on the Main Board at FCHO, chairs the Investment and Development Committee, and is a Board Director at Yorkshire Housing Residential (YHR), supporting market sale, shared ownership, and PRS activity. His roles have also included committee membership across Audit and Risk, Investment and Development, and Sustainability and Zero Carbon workstreams. He is passionate about improving outcomes for customers and communities and brings strong strategic insight, commercial acumen, and a commitment to fairness, integrity, and social value. Motivated by the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution, he is keen to use his wide-ranging experience to support the organisations vision and strategic ambitions.
Charlie was appointed to the Group Board in October 2025. He is also a Board member of Stonecross Homes Board and Chairs the Development Committee.
Narvinder Khossa
Narvinder has over 26 years of combined expertise in property management, construction project management, and residential development, and brings a wealth of strategic leadership and operational performance experience to our Board.
She has a motivation for delivery of homes that help create positive social impact, providing homes for all.
Narvinder was appointed to the Board in April 2024.
Noel Sharpe
Noel is Group Chief Executive Officer at Bolton at Home and has been working in the sphere of social housing in the northwest for over 20 years having previously worked in London for 10 years before that. As a Senior Executive and Non-Executive Noel has extensive strategic and operational experience at a very senior level across a wide-ranging set of organisations. Her experience spans all aspects of general needs and supported housing management, property asset maintenance and investment, regeneration and community investment and new homes development
Noel is a committed and passionate believer in the importance of investment in communities to support and enable them to bring about demonstrable and sustained improvement in their quality of life.
Noel joined the Group Development Committee as an Executive Director member in January 2023.