Staff & Volunteers

Patricia Durr is our Chief Executive Officer

Alice Healy-Smith is our Sessional Youth Counsellor

Anna Bagneris is our Fundraising Officer

Diana Repcenko is our Finance and Administration Manager

Hamdi Salat Mohamed is our Youth Mentoring and Outreach Worker

Imogen Spencer Chapman is our Head of Operations, Training and Quality Practice

Laura Durán is our Head of Policy, Advocacy and Research

Laura Maria Cárdenas is our Youth Mentoring & Outreach Worker and Volunteer Coordinator

Naciimo Cali is our Youth Support and Participation Officer

Sophia Benedict is our  Youth Programme Manager and Therapeutic Lead

To contact a member of the team: [email protected]

For press enquiries: [email protected]
For training enquiries: [email protected]
For youth programme and youth group enquiries: [email protected]

Trustees

Liz Barratt, Chair of the Board of Trustees

Liz is the Joint Head of Immigration at Bindmans and has acted in many cases involving children who are unaccompanied and trafficked as well as for looked after children. Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Liz worked in the voluntary sector as a housing adviser and as a refuge worker for Women’s Aid. Liz is also a former trustee and Chair of the Trustee Board for the charity Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID). Liz has acted in several high profile cases involving unaccompanied and trafficked children: 

• MA and BT v SSHD C-648/11 relating to the application of the Dublin Regulation to unaccompanied children, which clarified the law in this area and won her Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2012:
• R (on the application of SA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 1611 (Admin) in relation to the application of good character requirements for registration of children as British citizens.
  
  

Annabel Mullin, Trustee

Annabel is Principal Consultant at OneFifty, a specialist consultancy in digital communications, and focuses on supporting clients work in Sustainability and ESG. She has many year’s experience running political campaigns and is co-founder of politically-oriented organisations Stand for Something and Advance Together, as well as co-leading the organisation Renew.   Annabel is also on the supplementary magistrate list and sat for nine years at the Central London Bench including the Old Bailey. Before this she worked in financial analysis in the City, with the NHS to rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders with severe mental illness, and as a Met police officer. Annabel is currently completing her ESRC Funded PhD at UCL using life course data to understand criminal propensity and guiding policy to reduce offending. 

Geoff Corre, Safeguarding Lead Trustee

Geoff is a social worker, trainer, consultant in countering trafficking and modern slavery and an accredited serious case review author. He wrote the first serious case review into the death of a child believed to have been trafficked from Vietnam to the UK and conducted a major local review of child sexual exploitation. Geoff was a trustee and Chair of the Board of Trustees for the National Working Group on Child Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking.  Geoff has extensive experience in child protection as a provider, commissioner and regulator. He has acted as Head of Child Protection for a large county council and managed a multi-agency safeguarding hub. As an HMI, he has inspected child protection services in local authorities and police forces for Ofsted and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. Geoff is a member of Locate International’s advisory board and a trustee with the Peace Hospice in Watford.

Eleanor Alexander, Young Trustee

Eleanor is the National Events Fundraiser for Sense charity, where she focuses on major challenge events including the London Marathon.   She is a member of the Young Trustee Network and is keen to help other young people to get involved in boards.   Eleanor is also Events Manager for the Women in Charity Network and at Sense is co-heading a WhatsApp Community project to increase supporter retention and conversion.  Eleanor has previously worked on events at National Health Service England.

 Matilde Chora, Trustee

Matilde is an interdisciplinary research and evaluation specialist leading complex research, evaluation and learning programmes globally. She specialises in strengthening organisations' ability to generate and use evidence, demonstrate impact, and drive evidence-informed advocacy across both grant-making and civil society contexts.   She is a Senior Research & Evaluation Manager at Catch22, establishing the organisation’s first Research & Evaluation function and leads the charity’s evidence and learning across serious youth violence, child criminal and sexual exploitation, and youth unemployment, helping improve outcomes through evidence-informed, adaptive services, contributing to wider public service reform.