The AHDF Committee

The AHDF has been established by Anne’s friends and family. All committee members have a long association with the Australian equestrian community. The current ADHF Committee members are:

Dr Jennifer Scott – Chair
Jenny is an environmental scientist and has been involved in a range of equestrian pursuits including the NSW Pony Club Assoc as a Zone Chief Instructor; Riding for Disabled as coach and examiner; in vaulting as Australian coach at various international events including WEG and as Chair of the National Vaulting Committee (1999 – 2001). She is an occasional but keen dressage rider.

Stacey O’Toole – Secretary
Stacey is an active Pitt Town resident and was a neighbourhood friend of Anne’s…[TO COME.]

Philippa Honner – Treasurer, Public Officer and Publicity
Philippa is Anne’s eldest daughter and was a keen junior rider, competing successfully at State Junior Dressage Championships and at various shows from an early age. She was also an active member of the Hills District Pony Club for many years. Philippa was perhaps the first beneficiary of Anne’s unique dressage teaching techniques. She became adept with a dressage whip from age 11, providing many years of ‘on the ground’ training assistance in her Mother’s early pursuits of pirouette, piaf and passage. Philippa became a journalist in her 20s and never had to learn shorthand due to years of practice writing very fast while penciling for Anne at dressage days. Today Philippa runs a financial PR agency in Sydney. 

The Hon. Kevin Rozolli AM – Committee Member
Kevin was a long-time friend of Anne’s and had been associated with many equestrian organisations. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales for 30 years until his retirement in 2003. Kevin was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, the oldest Parliament in Australia, from 1988-1995.

He was made a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2008 for his service to the NSW Parliament, and to the community of the Greater Western Sydney through a range of environmental protection, health and welfare, and educational organisations.

He was appointed an Honorary Research Associate to the Department of Government at the University of Sydney in 2003, and is also involved in research projects with Monash University. He is actively involved in many organisations and projects, some being:

• Chair, Haymarket Foundation, an organisation based in Sydney that provides medical care for the city's homeless people and manages Sydney's Central Proclaimed Place.
• Chair, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, a Centre of Excellence at the University of New South Wales researching treatment and rehabilitation of drug and alcohol related problems.
• National President, Australasian Study of Parliament Group.
• Trustee and board member of Medical Advances Without Animals
• Chair, Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Foundation
• Chair, Great River Walk developing a walking trail along the Hawkesbury Nepean River system.
• Chair, East Bend Rural Communications, an environmental group pursuing specific initiatives on a section of the Hawkesbury River
• Chair, LINCS an organisation providing support care to mothers and young children
• Director, NSW Law and Justice Foundation
• Director, NSW Public Interest Advocacy Centre
• Director, Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural and Education Centre

Les Benson – Committee Member
Les has been a friend of Anne’s and the Honner family for more than three decades, living for many years in Kellyville before moving to nearby Windsor.  One of Australia’s greatest saddlers, he is a longstanding and well-known member of the Australian equestrian community.

Les served on the committee of the original Horse Trials Association during 1970s (now NSW Eventing) as well as the  Sydney Show Jumping Club (originally Cumberland Show Jumping Club) where he was President for three years and show jumping council delegate. He has also been a member of the show jumping subcommittee of the Castle Hill Show Society.

Ron Miller – Committee Member
Ron has also been a friend of Anne’s and the Honner family for more than three decades, living for many years in Kellyville where he ran the local butchery. Ron now lives in Pitt Town, a few doors down from Anne’s old place. He remains a keen amateur rider and has been involved in the horse community since the 1970s.

Jo Arblaster – Committee Member
Jo is currently the editor of The Northern News, a weekly community newspaper for the Hills and Hawkesbury region. In addition to writing and editing the publication, Jo is also an accomplished photographer, providing photographs of endurance events for magazines such as Arabian Horse News, Arabian Horse Express, as well as general photography for a range of other publications.

Jo has been an endurance rider for many years, and has a particular interest in Arabian horses. She met Anne in the late 1990s through her employer at the time, Kevin Rozolli, and they developed a mutually inspirational friendship.

We would like to thank the many others who have devoted their time and energy to helping establish the Foundation.

AHDF Structure

The Foundation will be constituted as an Association under the Associations Incorporation Act 1984. We will be publishing a copy of the AHDF Constitution on the website shortly.

If you would like to get involved in helping support AHDF you can become an AHDF Member here.

If you would like to donate funds to AHDF you can do that here.