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