ANAM CARA HOUSE COLAC - Key Persons


Andrea Langdon

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee of Management

Diane Wright - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Member of Committee of Management
  • President Emeritus
Through many years of unwavering effort, Diane's vision of creating a respite and palliative care facility in a homelike environment has been realised. Her commitment to seeing the community hospice project culminate in a functioning facility has seen her meet with hundreds of community leaders, politicians, service groups and people across South West Victoria to advocate on behalf of Anam Cara House.

Gavin Spokes

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee of Management

George ‘Neil' Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Directors
  • Founding Patron
At a professional level Neil is Chairman of Directors, and the third generation of Stewarts to head up Charles Stewart & Company, a well respected and most successful livestock and real estate agency that has served Western Victoria since 1917.

Helen Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee of Management
  • Secretary

Lyn Harris - VP

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee of Management
  • Vice President

Maryjane Crabtree - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee of Management
  • President

Naomi Lettieri

Job Titles:
  • Hospice Manager
I joined the Anam Cara House Colac team as a Community Liaison Nurse in 2016 after living and working in the UK for 10 years - it was time to return home. Having worked in the inpatient and outpatient setting of acute health services, caring for people with cancer and blood disorders, building therapeutic and holistic care relationships with people and their carer has always been a high priority in my Nursing career.

Wayne O'Brien - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee of Management
  • Treasurer