Recently
joining the management team at the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados is
Jenny Randall, who took up the position of Administration and Fundraising
Manager on April 2nd 2007.
In her new and challenging role, Mrs. Randall oversees the
administration and secretarial functions of the Foundation as well as the
supervision of staff. She also has responsibility in the key area of the raising
of funds crucial to the operation of the organization and the implementation of
its projects and programmes.
Included among the staff are a number of volunteers. Said
Mrs. Randall: “As an organization that interacts to a large degree with the
public through our outreach programmes, in particular our Emergency Cardiac Care
training courses, it is vital that we have a good cadre of volunteers, persons
who are able to give of their time and talents to the Foundation”. ”. She
continued, “We are, in fact, currently in the process of setting up a database
of such individuals so that we will know what skills are available to us.”
Born in Cornwall, in the UK, Jenny Randall is a fully
qualified secretary, having trained at Secretarial College in the UK. She also
holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance.
She learned the rudiments of business working as a sales
representative for 10 years in West Yorkshire, and further gained valuable
accounting experience while being employed as personal assistant to the Finance
Director at a chemical company. She set up and operated a payroll and accounting
business for 12 years in Essex before coming to Barbados in 2004 with her
husband, Adrian Randall, when he took up the position of Chief Executive Officer
of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados.
Right away, Mrs. Randall got involved as a volunteer with
the Foundation and, indeed, gave tremendous assistance by setting up accounting
procedures for the Foundation, using Quickbooks. Following the resignation of
the Administration and Human Resources Manager in September 2006 to take up a
job overseas, Mrs. Randall acted in that position, before being formally
appointed Administration and Fundraising Manager. She looks forward with
enthusiasm to being able to contribute to the further development of the
institution.
As a registered Charity, the obtaining of financial support
is key to the sustainability of the organization. “A large part of my
responsibility, therefore”, said Mrs. Randall, “is devising means and strategies
to raise those funds; and we look to individuals as well as to the business
community in this regard. Fundraising projects include such events as the
Holders Concert, which took place in March this year, and we are currently
planning Heart & Stroke Week and a Healthy Fun Day for September, among other
events. A Raffle, with attractive prizes, is now in progress.”
“Essentially, it falls upon all of us at the Foundation to
do what we can in order to fulfill our mission to keep people heart healthy and
reduce suffering and death from heart disease and stroke, ”said Mrs. Randall.
“Ideally, our efforts should be more tailored to prevention, rather than
rehabilitation - and, importantly, targeted to the young. Education of the young
is one of the Foundation's priorities, and prevention has to be the watchword;
for, if you educate the young, you won't have to prevent the old!”
Recently
joining the management team at the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados is
Jenny Randall, who took up the position of Administration and Fundraising
Manager on April 2nd 2007. 
