LOCALS WHO LOVE OUR COMMUNITY
We have no political bias or agenda.
We are not against progress or change but it should be appropriate and beneficial.
We love and want to retain the diversity and livability of our community while preserving its built heritage.
COMMITTEE
Dr. Peter Sheridan AM
Anne McCormick OAM
Mark Day
Sally Davis
Chelsea Ford
PATRONS
Leo Schofield AM
Ros Kelly AO
ADVISORY PANEL
Clive Lucas OBE
Robin Grow
Fiona Gracie
Louise Nettleton
Brian Van der Plaat
Rob Weir
SUPPORTERS
Alex Greenwich
Allegra Spender
St Canices
Glebe Society
National Trust (NSW)
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Committee
AM BDS MDS FICD FADI
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Sydney University
Committee Member, Art Deco & Modernism Society of Australia
Peter has had a long career as a dentist in Sydney and is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Sydney University. An accredited professional photographer, Peter is a world-renowned authority on Art Deco and the author of five major award-winning photographic reference books on Art Deco design, architecture and collecting. Important local books include Sydney Art Deco (2019) and Sydney Art Deco & Modernist Walks -Potts Point/ Elizabeth Bay. In 2001 he was honoured by the Australian government and awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his work with people with Multiple Sclerosis. Peter has lived in Elizabeth Bay for 20 years and has been active in the protection of heritage buildings in the area. He is a nationally ranked seniors tennis player.
Warren Fahey AM is a cultural historian, folklorist, prolific author, music producer and sometimes performer. He has been honoured with the Order of Australia, Prime Minister’s Centenary Medal, Advance Australia Award, Judith Hosier Award, Australasian Sound Recording Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the nation’s highest award for music, the Don Bank’s Music Award. He is co-administrator of the Potts Pointers community group. Complete bio at https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Warren_Fahey
Anne McCormick is a founding director of Hordern House Rare Books and a subject matter expert in early Australian history, art, and culture.
She has been involved in rare books, manuscripts, and paintings since the 1970’s starting business in Paddington then, for thirty-five years running Hordern House from a colonial house in Victoria Street, Potts Point. A specialist publisher and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers, the International Association of Antiquarian Booksellers and Australian Antique and Art Dealers Association, Anne is greatly involved in supporting Fine Arts in Australia.
In 2009 she was awarded the Order of Australia for contribution to business and to culture in Australia.
Anne lives in Potts Point and has been a longtime resident and business owner in this area. Besides being deeply involved promoting the important historical aspects and its fascinating community, she assists local charities including the Wayside Chapel. Anne has a strong commitment to small business development, a passion for the preservation of heritage architecture and an active interest in maintaining diverse, people friendly communities.
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Sally Davis has lived in Potts Point since 2016 and is passionate about promoting and preserving the area’s unique and diverse character. Her background is in community engagement and development, consultation and communications, and facilitation and board/ governance.
She has a long history and experience with local housing advocacy, resident action groups, and being part of the early women’s refuge movement.
Her particular interest is maintaining a community where people on lower incomes can safely live - especially through the availability of studio and one bedroom apartments.
Chelsea Ford is a highly regarded and award winning business growth expert, entrepreneur and consultant. With her focus on firming up Australia’s position on the world stage as a thriving hub of innovation in FMCG, Chelsea helps entrepreneurs realise their dreams. Chelsea is the founder of the powerful and purposeful network, Females in Food®, the impactful Foodpreneurs Festival, creator of the Foodpreneurs Formula coaching program and host of the 5star rated Foodpreneur with Chelsea Ford podcast.
Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Applied Social Science (Management); she was a long-standing judge for the Banksia Sustainability Awards - Australia’s most prestigious and longest running sustainability awards recognising industry and community excellence in sustainability; and during her mid-30s undertook a unique-angled approach to studying human behaviour and personal development by spending time living with a shaman in Peru, pursuing the human potential trail in north America and living in a meditation retreat in India.
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Patrons
He has directed 13 major arts festivals, and international special performing arts events in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Brisbane.
Schofield developed a parallel career as a journalist and broadcaster. For over a decade his weekly column in The Sydney Morning Herald was one of the most widely read in the country. As journalist and broadcaster, Mr. Schofield accompanied the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on its 1988 Bicentennial Tour of the United States and a further link with the orchestra was forged in February 1996 when the SSO became an independent subsidiary of the ABC and Mr. Schofield was appointed inaugural Chairman of the Board.
Schofield has been associated with numerous charitable, conservation and environmental causes. He has served on the Centennial Park Trust and on several NSW Government advisory committees. A past member of the Executive of the National Trust of Australia (NSW), he was also Chairman of the Committee of Review - Commonwealth Owned Heritage Properties. He served for nine years as a Trustee of the Powerhouse Museum for Sydney and as a member for the Federal Government’s Cultural Advisory Panel with input into the Creative Nation policy. He has been co-Chairman of the Dame Joan Hammond Foundation, a member of the Advisory Panel for the Victorian Government’s Victoria Commissions initiative, and a Trustee of Melbourne’s Old Treasury Building.
In 2000, Leo Schofield was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the Sydney and Melbourne Festivals, to conservation and heritage and to fundraising for the arts. In January 2001, Mr. Schofield was granted one of the French Government’s most prestigious honours when he was created a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is also a recipient of the Federal Government’s Centenary Medal.
Leo Schofield continues to consult to business and the arts. In early 2005, he was appointed to the board of Trustees of the Sydney Opera House and in 2008 he was appointed to the board of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and the committee of review for the development of Sydney’s East Darling Harbour. Recently, he undertook to chair an exhibition to celebrate the Powerhouse Museums vast holdings of decorative and applied arts under the title of 1001 Remarkable Objects from the Powerhouse Collections.
Leo is a long-term resident of Potts Point.
Ros has worked across the political, private and not for profit sectors. Ros was a member of the Australian Government for 16 years serving as a Minister in a number of portfolios. She was the first woman ALP cabinet minister in the House of Representatives. Ros was Chair of the National Breast Cancer Foundation from 2005 -2010, a Director of Thiess from 1998 – 2012, a Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for 8 years, 2012 - 2020, and Chair of the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation. She currently serves as a senior advisor to the Australian Studies Institute and as Patron of the Women’s Housing Company. Ros was made an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia in 2004 for services to the environment, mining, women's health and the Australian Parliament.
Dedicated to preserving the vibrant and accessible neighbourhood of Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, and King Cross which uniquely embraces the architectural and societal history of Sydney.