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John Rennison

Chief Executive Officer, 1st Homecare

John Rennison is owner and CEO of 1st Homecare, a home care group in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire, and a former Homecare Association Chair.

BIOGRAPHY

John Rennison is Owner and Chief Executive Officer of 1st Homecare, a home care group with offices in Leighton Buzzard, Oxford and Kings Langley and a live-in care service, covering Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and part of Buckinghamshire. According to the Homecare Association, most of its clients pay for their own care, and four local authorities also commission work from it. He is also a non-executive director of the Homecare Association, the UK membership body for home care providers, where he was Chair from October 2024 to October 2025 and is now Treasurer.

Rennison began as a chartered accountant. LinkedIn lists him as an assistant manager at PwC in Bristol from 1983, after a geography degree at Edinburgh University. He then moved through a series of finance roles: financial analyst at Inchcape, finance director at Electrocomponents in Madrid, and European Controller at Ogilvy & Mather from 1992 to 1998. In 2000 he became CEO of African Media Entertainment, a Johannesburg-listed group of 20 subsidiaries. Later roles included finance director of the marketing group FCB, interim chief financial officer at the wealth manager Bestinvest, and chief financial officer of Haverstock Healthcare, a consortium of 27 Camden GP practices, from December 2011 to August 2013.

In 2012 John and Annabella Rennison took over 1st Homecare, which had been running in Leighton Buzzard since 2010. Rennison has been a director of 1st Homecare Solutions Ltd since 10 May 2012. The group then grew by acquiring existing agencies in Oxford and Kings Langley, and he became a director of 1st Homecare (Oxford) Ltd in February 2016. LinkedIn lists Cranfield School of Management's Business Growth Programme (2017) in his education. The group has been named in the homecare.co.uk Top 20 Small Home Care Groups for seven consecutive years to 2026, and its own site says it won Most Outstanding Regional Home Care Group in the Gold category at the Home Care Awards 2025.

Rennison joined the Homecare Association board in October 2021 and served as Treasurer before being elected Chair on 17 October 2024. In a February 2024 interview with Home Care Insight he said he had stopped wanting local authority work, calling the low-price approach a "race to the bottom", and was focusing on private clients. In March 2024 he told The Guardian that the Home Office had asked 1st Homecare for more than 230 documents before it could recruit one overseas worker who was already in the country.

About 1st Homecare. 1st Homecare has three offices and a live-in care service across Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. Per the Homecare Association, most clients are self-funders alongside some commissioned by four local authorities. See its rank and history

CAREER

  1. OCT 2025 – NOW

    Treasurer (non-executive director) · Homecare Association NOW

  2. OCT 2024 – OCT 2025

    Chair (non-executive director) · Homecare Association

  3. OCT 2022 – OCT 2024

    Treasurer (non-executive director) · Homecare Association

  4. OCT 2021 – NOW

    Non-executive director · Homecare Association NOW

  5. FEB 2016 – NOW

    Owner and CEO · 1st Homecare (Oxford) Ltd NOW

  6. MAY 2012 – NOW

    Owner and Chief Executive Officer · 1st Homecare Solutions Ltd NOW

  7. DEC 2011 – AUG 2013

    Chief Financial Officer · Haverstock Healthcare

  8. JUN 2009 – JAN 2011

    Interim Chief Financial Officer · Bestinvest

  9. JAN 2009 – JUN 2009

    Interim Global Chief Financial Officer · IGA Worldwide

  10. MAR 2008 – AUG 2008

    Turnaround consultant · Rennison Ekin & Alexander Ltd

  11. APR 2007 – AUG 2007

  12. OCT 2004 – OCT 2006

    Finance Director · FCB

  13. 2001 – 2003

    Operations and Finance Director · Network Gaming Ltd

  14. 2000 – 2001

    Chief Executive Officer · African Media Entertainment

  15. 1992 – 1998

    European Controller · Ogilvy & Mather

  16. SEP 1990 – JUL 1992

    Director of Finance · Electrocomponents plc

  17. AUG 1987 – FEB 1990

    Financial Analyst · Inchcape Group

  18. SEP 1983 – AUG 1987

    Assistant Manager · PwC

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