Staff

As a Volunteering Services Officer, Diana's role is to support groups across the Borough with their Volunteer Programmes and all aspects of best practise in Volunteer Management, through 1-2-1 support, training and development of resources. Diana comes with a breadth of experience across the sector

A local resident, volunteer and community activist for very many years, Alison will be supporting local community sector organisations through networks and partnerships.

Amelia joined the team as Volunteer Services Officer in September 2017 to look after our Volunteer Advice Service. Our Volunteer Service provides free advice for anyone looking to volunteer in Southwark. Details of when these operate and how to book a 1:1 session can be found here.

Andrea supports the internal function of the Community Southwark including governance, finance, HR and membership. Her role is to manage the day-to-day office administration and outsourced services to support the smooth running of Community Southwark.

Bron previously supported the internal function of Community Southwark including governance, finance, HR and membership.

She is now delighted to be joining the HWS team and looks forward to renewing existing connections and making many new contacts across the borough.

Catherine started at Healthwatch Southwark in September 2015 as Research and Intelligence Officer and became Manager in April 2018. She hopes to draw on this experience across our activities, particularly in distilling information from our engagement and influencing commissioners.

As the Development Officer at Community Waltham Forest, Chris supports voluntary and community groups with  governance, funding and financial management (and lots more besides). Chris can offer advice and support by phone, e-mail or at a one to one session. 

Clare joined Community Southwark as Programme Coordinator in November 2013. Her role involves providing support to the Development, Policy, Operations and Healthwatch teams by developing internal systems, overseeing events and training and bringing volunteer time and expertise to various projects. She also supports the team at Southwark Council and their fulfilment partners to deliver the Southwark Emergency Support Scheme.
 

Conor is an expert facilitator and coordinator of our corporate volunteering programme. He designs and leads projects in charities and community groups for teams of professionals from large corporates, helping them to step outside of their comfort zone and accomplish things they didn't believe they were capable of achieving. Conor is also a psychologist and coach, and a counsellor in training.     

Deborah has 10 years experience in the public and voluntary and community sectors.  Deborah has been at Community Southwark since 2010, delivering training, consultancy, governance reviews, organisational diagnostics and 1:1 advice. 

Gordon has over 15 years experience of working in the voluntary and community sector; the majority of which has been spent in an infrastructure environment.  Gordon was Head of Research for the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (sister council of NCVO) for nine years.  Following NICVA, Gordon took up the post of Deputy Director of the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) based at Birkbeck College.  Before joining Community Southwark he was the interim Chief Executive of Brighton and Hove Community and Voluntary Sector Forum.

Helen is Head of Southwark Giving. Helen’s role is to develop and lead this new giving partnership for the borough of Southwark.

Prior to joining Community Southwark Helen worked in philanthropy and corporate responsibility in the City Square Mile and Canary Wharf. Helen’s professional experience also includes influencing social policy in central government and for charities.

Jo's role is to support Community Southwark with communicating the work that they do to support the voluntary and community sector in Southwark. Jo works with the team in developing our monthly ebulletin, Community Southwark’s website and social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube. 

Mariana's role as Evaluation & Impact support officer is to assist voluntary and community groups to improve their evaluation practices through 1:1 in depth support and workshops covering a wide range of topics related to impact evaluation. She has been proving this service since 2014 and has seen over 100 voluntary organisations. Mariana provides tailored support which includes helping groups to develop a Theory of Change, create outcomes frameworks, and revising programmes and systems based on evidence. Mariana has ten years of experience in the voluntary and community sector supporting grassroots organisations to improve capacities and designing programmes to better achieve social change. She has a MSc in Health, Community and Development. 

Nathan previously worked in the Social Action Team at Community Southwark, identifying and developing relationships with seldom heard and refugee communities, and to ensure that people have the support and information needed to become more active in their communities. 

He now brings his experience of working in a plethora of healthcare settings to Healthwatch.

Robert's role as Community Engagement officer is to ensure that people have the support and information needed to take a more active role in their communities. This is achieved in a variety of ways including through supporting social action and campaigning. Robert is also charged with developing and maintaining our Soutwark CAN website and digital engagement strategy.

Steve joined Community Southwark in April 2016 as Partnerships and Policy Officer. His role will be to establish thematic voluntary and community sector groups to support the sector to build connections, identify emerging needs and develop responsive and influential models of representation for the sector. Prior to joining Community Southwark Steve spent many years in policy roles in Charities and in central government.

Truly manages our volunteering and engagement services. She oversees the development of Community Action Networks in Southwark and is also responsible for running of our volunteering brokerage and good practice service. Finally Truly is overseeing the development of a new giving partnership for the borough called Southwark Giving. Truly has over 10 years experience in the voluntary sector from teaching ESOL and managing volunteers to providing development support to groups, and has an MSc in Voluntary and Community Sector Studies. 

Victor is a Development Officer at Community Southwark. He supports voluntary sector groups with advice around governance, funding and other organisational issues such as strategic planning and financial management. Victor can offer advice and support by phone, e-mail or one to one appointments at Community Southwark’ monthly sustainability surgeries and also develops resources and Community Southwark's bulletins for groups.

Zuwena's role is to support the Communications Co-ordinator in sharing the work Community Southwark do within the voluntary and community sector. Zuwena works with the team to maintain our monthly ebulletin, Community Southwark’s website and social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook.