Partner Governors

I've been the Director of Children and Young People for 6 years and have worked for YMCA Downslink Group for 23 years, holding a number of management and senior management roles across the organisation.  I trained as a social worker, but quickly realised that I had a passion for the charity sector and in particular children and young people’s services and working with homelessness, mental health and those who experience harm through violence and exploitation.

I feel it is a great privilege to be an appointed governor and I hope to be able to provide a different perspective. I hope to share my experiences of delivering mental health and emotional wellbeing services to children and young people that is informed by parent / carer / service user voice, a partnership approach and building upon a Thrive model that supports resilience, prevention and earlier intervention alongside more specialist services.