Toni Nye has been with Keystage since the very beginning. She has supported the growth of the business through a variety of means, most notably through the creation of a team of highly skilled and experienced people who have the influence and skills to support people in changing their lives through the right accommodation with the right support at the right time.

Toni’s role supports all Keystage’s service operations, from service development, quality and training, through to talent attraction and retention, finance, forging and growing partnerships and maintenance and property management.

Toni began her pathway towards Keystage when she started working at Brunel University, alongside conferencing and events management. Toni also facilitated a series of community theatre workshops for adults with learning disabilities and mental health issues, as well as young offenders. This brought her direct exposure to the variety of experiences each had, and the barriers and adversities faced within their own communities. Toni subsequently took a role as a support worker for a local provider of supported accommodation, working with people in their own flats, who had mental health needs, learning disabilities, and dual diagnosis.

The service was then merged with a national provider of regulated support and supported housing. Over the next 6 years, her role as service manager saw her gain regional experience of this important sector in London, Luton, Cornwall and Suffolk. Her focus was on opening new services, embedding best practice, improving services through regulated audits and working with individuals to provide the right support models.