Our team Staff & Volunteers Akansha Mehrotra is our Youth Mentoring and Outreach Worker Alice Healy-Smith is our Sessional Youth Counsellor Diana Repcenko is our Finance and Administration Manager Elias Matar is our Youth Programme Manager Haleema Ogazi-Khan is our Youth Programme Volunteer Helen O'Neill is our Communications and Campaigns Lead 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 Ovalle is our Youth Mentoring and Outreach Worker Leah Davison is our Social Worker for Unaccompanied Children Patricia Durr is our Chief Executive Officer Rashi Mitra is our Fundraising and Partnerships Lead Temitope Adekoya is our Youth Support and Participation Officer 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, and her work on the application of the Dublin Regulation led to a change in the law and Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2012: 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 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, 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. Nicky Guy, Trustee Dr Nicky Guy is the Deputy Director for Culture and Sport at the Welsh Government. She joined the Board in 2016 having previously been the Head of Vulnerability, including child trafficking and missing people, at the Home Office. Nicky has undertaken a range of Civil Service roles, focusing on culture, heritage and support of vulnerable people. She has a strong interest in south eastern Europe, especially Albania and Kosova, following her PhD and book on Albanian independence. Renata de Groot, Trustee Renata is Head of Enabling and Delivery at Oxfam and has over ten years’ experience in the charity sector, with particular expertise in international development and fundraising. At Oxfam, Renata has developed strategy, managed operational teams and designed ways of working, as well as delivering fundraising and communications. Renata has also worked with Hope and Homes for Children in the UK as well as a local child protection charity in the Philippines, and has a strong commitment to supporting organisations to develop feminist, anti-racist and safe practice. Ahmed Ayeed, Trustee Ahmed Aydeed is a director of public law at Duncan Lewis Solicitors who specialises in the field of public law and human rights, where he represents non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and individuals who receive legal aid. Recommended by the Legal 500 for his immigration work, he is described as having “extensive experience in asylum claims and unlawful detention matters”. He regularly acts on behalf of unaccompanied minors, child survivors of trafficking and children in care. After providing evidence during the Home Affairs Select Committee's investigation into Modern Slavery, Ahmed was nominated as a finalist for the Children's Champion award in 2019 by Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT). He was subsequently awarded the Marsh Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Fight Against Modern Slavery at the 2019 Anti-Slavery Day Awards. Manage Cookie Preferences