Avnish Goyal qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in 1991 after graduating from Newcastle University with an Honours degree in Accounting and Finance. He is the Chair of industry-leading care provider, Hallmark Care Homes which he founded with his brothers in 1997.
Over the last 25 years the company has won numerous awards for delivering outstanding care as well as national awards for building some of the best care homes in the country. He is also CEO of Savista Developments and Santhem Residences, part of the Hallmark family.
Avnish is proud to be the Chair of Care England, the largest representative body for the care sector as well as an Advisory Board Director and Ambassador of E2Exchange.
Avnish is also Patron of The Care Workers’ Charity as well as an Ambassador of the Alzheimer’s Society. He is also part of the committee who founded the Care Sector Fundraising Ball, which is now part of Championing for Social Care who have so far raised £350,000 for charities related to social care.
In 2010 Avnish set up the Hemraj Goyal Foundation in memory of his late father, supporting charities on issues such as trafficking, menstrual dignity, empowerment of women and education of children from disadvantaged backgrounds both in the UK and abroad. Avnish was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Birthday Honours in June 2022.