Our team

Andrew Rose

Head of Employment & Careers

Andrew Rose

Andrew leads our Employment and Careers Service, which delivers one-to-one Employment Support to hundreds of Lambeth residents each year to move them into employment. He leads a team of experienced Employment and Careers Advisors, works closely with Employers to help them fulfil their own requirements and ensures our service is responsive to the needs of our beneficiaries.

Anna Coffey

Co-CEO

Anna Coffey

Anna, alongside Grace, is High Trees Co-CEO. Their main responsibility is to provide leadership to deliver the vision, strategy, and services that we deliver at High Trees and to ensure the organisation and staff are able to thrive.

Charmaine Smith

Quality and Learning Lead

Charmaine Smith

Debbie Antwi

Building Young Brixton Partnership Coordinator and Senior Youth Worker

Debbie Antwi

Debbie is the Building Young Brixton Partnership Coordinator and Senior Youth Worker. Debbie supports the service delivery across the 9 Building Young Brixton partner organisations and ensures that our services are as joined up as possible,  through cross-referrals, joint events and BYB challenges. Debbie is also responsible for all BYB communication.

Denzel Dadson

Play and Youth Worker

Denzel Dadson

Denzel is a Play and Youth Worker at Tulse Hill Adventure Playground. He works with the team to deliver our youth services, our play sessions and delivers one-to-one coaching in schools.

Elen Evans

Head of Children, Young People and Families

Elen Evans

Elly Townsend

Head of Research & Development

Elly Townsend

Esther Mutisya

Senior Employment & Careers Advisor

Esther Mutisya

Giuseppe Grauso

Education Coordinator

Giuseppe Grauso

Giuseppe is the Education and Training Service Coordinator. Giuseppe is responsible for scheduling and coordinating all of our Adult Education Courses, supporting learner enrollment and most importantly take the lead on data management for this service.

Grace English

Co-CEO

Grace English

Grace, alongside Anna, is High Trees Co-CEO. Their main responsibility is to provide leadership to deliver the vision, strategy, and services that we deliver at High Trees and to ensure the organisation and staff are able to thrive.

Graham Weston

Head of Community Action

Graham Weston

Graham leads on our Community Action work, working with the community to facilitate action and campaigns and taking a community organising approach to support groups and individuals to take action in areas important to them. Graham is also responsible for the delivery of our Community Organising training, and for providing mentoring and practical support to those using the approach.

Jawad Anjum

Senior Community Organiser

Jawad Anjum

Jawad is a Senior Community Organiser sitting in our Community Action Team. He works with groups and individuals to facilitate action in their communities in areas that matter to them. Jawad also works within High Trees to promote user voice across all our services, working across our teams to ensure the ethos of Community Organising is present in all our work.

Jessie Logan

Trainee Employment & Careers Advisor

Jessie Logan

Kianna Rodriguez

Youth & Play Worker

Kianna Rodriguez

László Balla

Monitoring and Evaluation Lead

László Balla

Liz Hoar

Finance Assistant

Liz Hoar

Liz is our Finance Assistant, making sure our finance system functions smoothly and dealing with the administration of High Trees’ finances.

Louise Carolin

Education & Training Administrator

Louise Carolin

Mohammed Meho

Head of Operations

Mohammed Meho

Mohammed is responsible for the smooth running of all our buildings and facilities, ensuring our venues provide a welcoming environment for all who use them. Mohammed is also responsible for supporting income generation through venue hire to plough back into our charitable activities, and does a lot of the important work behind the scenes that allows our teams to function and to deliver high quality services to the communities with which we work.

Morgana Zuccoli

Head of Community Education & Training

Morgana Zuccoli

Morgana leads our Adult Education and Training service – overseeing the delivery of accredited and non-accredited training to over 500 Lambeth residents each year, both our sites and across a range of community venues in Lambeth including Children Centres and Libraries. Morgana is responsible for ensuring learner voice is central to planning and delivering our programmes and making sure we remain responsive to local needs and interests.

Natalia Sorokina

Finance & HR Lead

Natalia Sorokina

Rosie Shambrook

Capacity Building Officer

Rosie Shambrook

Salma Tiff

Employment & Careers Advisor

Salma Tiff

Sam Potts

Deputy Adventure Playground Manager

Sam Potts

Sam Toogood

Community Organiser

Sam Toogood

Siria White

Receptionist and Premises Assistant

Siria White

Siria is our Receptionist responsible for creating a welcoming environment for all our learners and visitors and answering the very varied enquiries we get each day. Siria also looks after our Venue Bookings, creating a professional and welcoming space for our hirers.

Tonia Vassell

Youth & Play Worker

Tonia Vassell

Tonia is the longest serving youth and play worker at the Adventure Playground as well as our Sports Lead. She works with the team to deliver our youth services, our play sessions and delivers one-to-one coaching in schools.

Zara Uzquiano

Building Young Brixton Project Officer

Zara Uzquiano