Rachael Scott-Hunter

Chair of Board of Trustees

Born in Sale, Manchester in 1946, Rachael moved to Lalnfairfechan, North Wales 1954 where she grew up in a hotel owned by her parents, Charles & Kathleeen Estcourt. While working for her parents, Rachael met Ian in 1961, when he came on holiday from Aberdeen, and they were married in Rhos on Sea in 1968. In 1969 they welcomed the arrival of their son, Paul, and their daughter Alexandra was born in 1972. Following the catastrophic brain hemorrhage four days after Alexandra was born, the family left North Wales and moved to London to be nearer Great Ormond Street Hospital were Alexandra received very necessary treatment. In the 1980s the family came to live in Oxfordshire where Ian and Rachael reside until this present day. Sadly, their beloved daughter Alexandra passed away in March 2019.

Rachael says “It has been an absolute privilege and honour for both of us to have been her parents, and it is because of the legacy she has left behind, and the very sad state of the local Social Care Services constantly being eroded by budget cuts that, through God’s wisdom and vision given, Ian and I find ourselves committed and dedicated to finding the funds to build a very unique and much needed retreat for families like ours who are so disadvantaged and discriminated against in our society today.”