Meet the Team

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Meet the people in the NCVS team. We're pleased to let you get to know us better.

Staff

Diane Allen

Finance Officer

Jess Allen

NCVS Central Administrator

Jess has a background in marketing and administration. She loves everything to do with data, organisation, processes and communication, and is passionate about supporting Nottingham’s VCSE sector. She also loves being outdoors, photography, crafting, and music.

Billie Ault

Communications and Marketing Coordinator

Billie has spent most of her working life in the voluntary sector, starting out at a charity before moving into regional infrastructure in her native Derby. She brings this infrastructure knowledge, as well as a creative flair and a passion for communication, to NCVS. Her two horses and two cats keep her busy at home.

Christina Barbian

Green Social Prescribing Project Officer

Christina’s a huge advocate for how green and blue spaces can support our wellbeing. She’s passionate about promoting the importance of connecting to nature and improving accessibility for everyone to do so. When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with dogs, friends and family, and going to gigs.

Andreea Buleandra

Community Engagement Coordinator

Andreea is new to the voluntary sector but is an experienced problem solver and works with Romanian speaking communities. She takes pride in providing the best help she can. Her role is to increase childhood intake vaccinations for children under 5 years old within the Romanian speaking communities.

Ellen Burford

Green Social Prescribing Project Officer

As a lover of gardening and the great outdoors, Ellen’s excited to showcase the importance of green social prescribing projects in Nottinghamshire and their positive impact on those who use them through her role at NCVS. Ellen’s recently completed a masters in Occupational Therapy and in her spare time, enjoys getting stuck into a knitting project.

Amanda Chambers

Health and Wellbeing Programme Manager

Amanda has experience in the public and voluntary sector, encouraging people to move more and enjoy how this can help their mental and physical wellbeing. Walking the talk, when not working she can be found in velodromes around the country competing in Masters' Track Cycling nationally and internationally.

Mimi Gbadesire

Changing Futures Ethnic Minority Community Engagement Coordinator

Mimi has experience working on an international mobility project to strengthen health systems delivery with partners including the CWPAMs, NHS, THET, Fleming Fund, Nottingham Trent University and Makerere School of Public Health, and interacting with people with SMD at Nottingham City Hospital.

Katie Hall

Practice Development Unit (PDU) Programme Manager

Katie has worked in services supporting people with complex needs across residential, education and high secure settings for almost a decade, with a degree in Psychology. When not chasing after her excitable German Short Haired Pointer puppy, she's trying not to kill house plants & making tasty vegan food for friends & family.

Nicki Hastie

Operations Manager

Nicki has managed information services/systems in the VCSE sector and in universities for almost 30 years. She is excited by efficient databases and likes to implement processes which improve communication and workflow. Attention to detail is her thing. She also writes poetry, enjoys building with Lego, and loves cats.

Chris Hill

Social Enterprise Development Coordinator

Chris returns to NCVS, feeling right at home. With his experience as a Specialist Advisor for social entrepreneurs/enterprises and leading the 2019/20 NCVS Social Enterprise Support Programme, he's now partnering with Nottingham Trent University to expand support again in Nottingham. He's a keen cricketer, valuing the mental health and wellbeing benefits over competition. And, according to his NCVS colleagues, he's known for brewing a great cuppa!

Natalie Leatherland

Creative Content Designer

Natalie has a background in journalism and public relations. She enjoys design in her role - whether it’s creating a new roller banner or a poster for a training course. The local alpaca farm is her favourite place in the world. She also dreams of luxury holidays abroad.

Kate Lisle

Active Travel Social Prescribing (ATSP) Community Development Coordinator

Kate has a background in education and is passionate about connecting people with the outdoors to improve wellbeing. Outside of NCVS, as a part-time Pilates instructor and volunteer walk leader in the Peak District, you can often find her at the top of a mountain or knee-deep in bog.

Nikyla Manners

Community Engagement and Partnership Coordinator

Nikyla has a background in education, working with families across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire for over fifteen years. She is passionate about empowering and connecting communities to drive positive, local change. She currently volunteers with: Nottingham Citizens, Grantham Canal Society and Fat Lad at the Back Social Bike Rides.

Davia Mckoy

Projects Support Administrator

Davia is a bubbly person at heart. Her vibe can be contagious. She loves to dance, go to the gym, loves music and events.

Helen Oparinde

Group Support Coordinator (Broxtowe)

Helen has 20 years of experience providing local and national infrastructure support. Before that, she spent nearly 20 years working in the banking sector. Helen’s passionate about helping VCSE sector organisations of all sizes, ensuring they’re highly effective, sustainable and responsive to their local communities. Now semi-retired, she enjoys spending her spare time swimming, cycling, walking, sewing and exploring new parts of the world.

Sarah Paine

Green Social Prescribing Programme Lead

After her degree in Creative, Expressive Arts, Health, and Wellbeing, Sarah established a therapeutic arts CIC. During her MSc in Health and Social Care, she completed a literature review on Social Prescribing, and then became Regional Lead for the NASP Thriving Communities Programme. Recently, she's worked in Greater Manchester and Birmingham to support personalisation workforces and develop creative health pathways, respectively. In her role at NCVS, she continues to champion personalised care and the benefits of green spaces and activities.

Justine Robertson

Practice Development Unit (PDU) Events Coordinator

Justine has worked in the VCSE sector for 10 years, mostly in roles working with people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage. In her spare time, she loves going out for a run… preferably on a nice sunny day, but she’ll venture out whatever the weather!

David Saunders

Group Development Officer

David provides advice, guidance and support on everything in the life of a group / organisation from start up to closure. He enjoys delivering training on Being a Trustee, How to Take Minutes, and How to Chair and Manage Meetings. David is an Acas trained workplace mediator. He also enjoys walking his dogs on long sandy beaches.

Jules Sebelin

Chief Executive Officer

Jules has experience across the voluntary, public and private sectors both here and in the US. She has worked with enterprising community organisations and social enterprises across the East Midlands since arriving in the UK nearly 20 years ago. She feels more British than ever now she and her wife have taken on their first allotment.

Dave Thomas

Volunteering Development Officer

Dave has a lifetime of volunteering experience and more than 40 years as a leader of volunteers. If he doesn't know the answer, he knows where to find it. In his spare time, Dave is Santa. He is also a railway anorak, motorcyclist, DJ and music collector.

Keely Weatherall

Practice Development Unit (PDU) Administrator

Keely worked for Opportunity Nottingham/Framework for 6 years prior to NCVS and, before that, in Ministry of Justice roles such as probation and employment tribunal.

Trustees

Chris Ball

Treasurer of Nottingham CVS

Chris is a highly experienced Collections and Recoveries leader, completing 20 years of senior leadership positions with NatWest Bank, Capital One, HBOS, Citi Bank and Nationwide Building Society. He is semi-retired and also holds a voluntary board role at Nottingham Credit Union. He enjoys football, golf, travel, good food and wine.

Will Burchell

Trustee of Nottingham CVS

Will has over 20 years’ experience in the voluntary sector. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer for The Bone Cancer Research Trust and is a recent MBA graduate from Nottingham Trent University. Will enjoys good food, good wine, and days spent at Trent Bridge and the City Ground.

Eunice Campbell-Clark

Trustee of Nottingham CVS

Eunice has spent over 48 years working in local government, the VCSE sector and private sector. She’s served as a Councillor and held numerous Senior Executive positions, is a member of the Council of Europe, a School Governor and mentors through the Local Government Association. She enjoys reading, gardening, theatre and holidays.

Michael Khouri-Bent

Vice Chair of Nottingham CVS

Mike co-owns Metropolitan (Children’s) Care Solutions and LETS Move Nottingham, and is a previous co-owner of Pathway (Children’s) Care Solutions. He’s a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and an active supporter of Nottingham’s VCSE sector. His specialisms are housing, child and community development, governance and strategy.

Matthew Posaner

Trustee of Nottingham CVS

Matt has extensive senior leadership and board level experience in the public and VCSE sectors, with a focus on people and organisational development. Now semi-retired, he continues to hold a small number of board level roles in the VCSE sector and passionately carries out direct volunteering activities.

Jane Todd

Chair of Nottingham CVS

Jane, former Regional Director of Government Office East Midlands and Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council, earned the OBE in 2012. She's an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Nottingham and Deputy Lieutenant for Nottinghamshire, and maintains strong ties to Nottingham's VCSE sector and cross-sector partnerships.