Caroline Collier
CEO of Inclusion Barnet

Caroline chairs the North Central London VCSE Alliance. She is also the CEO for Inclusion Barnet, a Deaf and Disabled Person’s Organisation; a leader of the Barnet Together Alliance; and previously the CEO for Barnet Centre for Independent Living. Caroline also sits on the steering group of the Disability Benefits Consortium and is a member of the Disability Poverty Campaign Group. Caroline is passionate about the power of lived experience, disability rights, inclusivity, and equality. . Pivotal contributions to disability include influencing Acas guidance, leading to the wide dissemination of clearer advice for recruiters on employing disabled people.

Dr Geoffrey Ocen
CEO of The Bridge Renewal Trust

Geoffrey has worked as Chief Executive at The Bridge Renewal Trust for ten years; and worked within the sector for over 20 years. He has worked in academia, voluntary and community Sector, Local Authority and the NHS and has a strong track record of building trusted relationships with partners andcommunities. Geoffry is passionate about reducing health inequalities and improving population health.

Janet Matthewson

CEO of Young Barnet Foundation 

Janet is a representative for North Central London VCSE Alliance. She is also a leader of the Barnet Together alliance in her capacity as CEO of the Young Barnet Foundation.. She is passionate about civil society and the benefits of working across the sector to address inequalities in our communities. Janet has extensive experience in infrastructure support and in growing front line delivery services for adults and children/young people. Her mantra is “it takes a village to raise a child or in our case a Borough.”

Ken Kanu
CEO of Help on Your Doorstep

Ken has over 30 years experience within the sector. He is the CEO of the charity and limited company Help on Your Doorstep, an organisation that improves the health and wellbeing of people in Islington, especially those who are vulnerable and isolated. His contributions include the creation of Connect Service which provides information and referrals to specialist advice organisations, the Good Neighbours Schemes and Islington’s health and wellbeing events.

Donna Turnball

Health Transformation & Partnership Manager of Voluntary Action Camden

Donna started working with Voluntary Action Camden in 2006, coming from a community arts and urban regeneration background. Her first role at Voluntary Action Camden was developing the Community Empowerment Network. Since 2013 she has been involved in developing Voluntary Action Camden’s work, and supporting community groups, in emerging policy areas important to our sector. These include community led and neighbourhood planning, and social prescribing/ health transformation. She leads Voluntary Action Camden’s social prescribing work and manages the Community Links service, and work with groups developing neighbourhood projects and services.

Kingsley Bempah
CEO for Ark Resettlement Services

Kingsley has worked in probation and the voluntary sector for over 15 years. He is also a regular guest lecturer at several London Universities in Social entrepreneurship and management studies. He has worked in ten local authorities as specialist offending group officers such as integrated Offender Management (IOM) and Multi Agency Public Protection arrangement (MAPPA). Kingsley has established strong working relationships with statutory providers including probation services, Local Authority, Police, Health professionals and other voluntary sector organisations ensuring non-duplication of provision. Kingsley has extensive experience in housing management working with ex-offenders London wide. He has worked with various charities in developing services and for vulnerable groups, including the homeless and people with substance dependency.

Navinder Kaur
CEO of Voluntary Action Islington

Navinder is the Chief Executive Officer for Voluntary Action Islington (VAI) which provides advice on governance, fundraising and strategy to the voluntary sector in Islington. VAI’s vision is a resilient voluntary sector that actively collaborates to support residents and community, VA has over 500 members and is taking a leading role in the formation of Islington’s first borough-wide network dedicated to Health & Wellbeing. She has over 15 years experience working within the sector and the local authority, her previous roles were as the Networks and Partnerships Manager at London Plus, which brought together voluntary, local authority and NHS responses to the Covid-19 outbreak across the capital and as Head of Policy, Partnerships and Communications, and was London Borough of Islington’s Voluntary and Community Development Officer.

Alex Tambourides
CEO for Mind, Enfield and Barnet

Alex is the CEO of Mind in Enfield and Barnet and the mental health representative for North Central London VCSE Alliance. He has worked in Mental Health for over 20 years primarily within the 3rd sector and has extensive experience in working alongside the NHS and other statutory partners, locally, regionally and across London.

Pam Burke
CEO for Enfield Carers Centre

Pamela has been supporting carers in Enfield for many years. As Chief Executive, Pamela is responsible for overseeing all aspects entailed in successfully running, and growing the services offered by Enfield Carers Centre. Pam has personal experience of being a carer.

Ashanty Alves
Marketing and communications officer

Ashanty is an International Politics graduate and is training part-time in Psychotherapy. 

She has a background working as a project  officer in the mental health sector alongside experience in marketing, communications, volunteering, administration.

She is  passionate about empowering communities and creating more accessible spaces for people from underrepresented groups.

Laura Ives
Central engagement lead

Laura works for the NCL VCSE Alliance in delivering against initiatives set by VCSE strategy, the Integrated Care Board and Population Health Team. Laura is also an Integrative Psychotherapist and holds clinical posts with a North London charity and North East London LGBT+ charity.

Laura is keen to reduce mental health stigma, and is passionate about driving awareness and accessibility of psychological support for vulnerable adults.

Patricia Salem
Finance administrator 

Patricia works for Inclusion Barnet and also has a background in teaching at Primary level working with children special educational needs in North Central London.