Our team

Alex Bousoulengas

Head of Community Education & Training

Alex Bousoulengas

Alex 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. Alex 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.

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.

Ben Keeling

Youth & Play Worker

Ben Keeling

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.

Denisha Stephenson

Youth & Play Worker

Denisha Stephenson

Denzel Dadson

Youth & Play 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

Data & Performance Lead

Giuseppe Grauso

Giuseppe is the Data & Performance Lead for the Education and Training service. 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.

Harry Jenkins

Senior Researcher

Harry Jenkins

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

Marlene Sookdeo

Senior Employment Advisor

Marlene Sookdeo

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.

Natasha Sorokina

Finance & HR Lead

Natasha Sorokina

Pati Piotrowska

Communications Officer

Pati Piotrowska

Sam Potts

Deputy Adventure Playground Manager

Sam Potts

Sam Toogood

Community Organiser

Sam Toogood

Savinien-Zuri Thomas

Caretaker

Savinien-Zuri Thomas

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.

Sophie Davies

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead

Sophie Davies

Ula Smith

Youth & Play Worker (BYB)

Ula Smith

Wilhelmina Perry

Youth & Community Organiser

Wilhelmina Perry