Our Trustees

Carolyn has lived in Greenwich for many years and first came across Home-Start Greenwich when she met a volunteer at a drop-in session she was attending at a Home-Start Greenwich Children Centre with her grandson.

She joined as a volunteer in 2017, after her retirement from teaching, and has supported two families through home visits and was delivering food parcels to vulnerable families during the height of the Pandemic.

During her teaching career, she worked in primary schools in several Inner London boroughs in a variety of roles – class teacher, reading support and advisory work with a focus on ethnic minority achievement. She has worked closely with refugee families and children for whom English is an additional language. She also acted as teacher-governor for twelve years.

She has two adult children and is now the proud grandma of two wonderful grandchildren.

Sara is a published associate professor in Economics at the University of Greenwich.

She has experience in teaching various economics modules and in conducting research on a variety of economics topics.

She also has an interest in economics teaching, sharing of best practices for quality enhancement, curriculum design and inclusion.

She has experience as a volunteer with immigrants. After becoming a mum she has been seeking to support other mums and children during the important early years. She feels very proud to be doing so through HSG. This is her first experience as a charity’s trustee.

Ana brings more than 20 years of experience working in risk management in financial services. She has worked in different risk teams in different banks covering credit risk, market risk and models. She brings a wealth of experience having a variety of roles as a risk SME, project manager and emerging process lead where she had developed valuable experience in leadership and project delivery. She spent the last six years supporting the Chief Risk Office organisation at Barclays and most recently being the Market Risk Chief of Staff.

Recently she has joined Credit Suisse in a strategy and regulatory interaction role in counterparty market risk.

Ana has also a big passion for developing people, driving change and supporting communities. She is training to be a coach and she is trust of a charity.

Elizabeth is a chartered manager with over 12 years of experience in project/programme management and financial services; specialising in compliance, risk and regulation. She is currently the Projects & Capital regulatory functional lead at one of the FTSE 100 banks in the UK.

Elizabeth has experience supporting local charities with various activities, including risk management, safeguarding/compliance, investment strategy and fundraising. She is passionate about developing young people and supporting families, especially new parents, in our community. Hence why she is proud to join Home Start Greenwich as a trustee.

She lives with her husband and 3 young children.

Federica is a Senior Legal Project Manager at Allen & Overy  LLP, a global law firm. Federica is also a solicitor of the courts of England and Wales and is a qualified PRINCE 2 Practitioner.

Federica has extensive experience in project managing litigation and investigations. Prior to joining Allen & Overy, Federica worked as a lawyer in both Italy and London with a focus on commercial, banking and financial disputes. In her previous role, she had the day-to-day conduct of large regulatory and criminal investigations as well as civil cases stemming from them. Federica also spent considerable time on client secondment to the legal teams at Lloyds Banking Group and Giorgio Armani S.P.A., providing her with a good understanding of the day-to-day in-house challenges and the benefits that legal project management can provide to clients.

Since joining the Project Management team, Federica has project-managed litigation, investigations, arbitration, banking, corporate and employment projects gaining exposure to a large breadth of work and ensuring the delivery of excellent services in a timely and cost-efficient manner.

Kaan has over 25 years of recruitment experience and is the director of Russell King Associates. He has developed a network of business relationships within the Greenwich Borough, leading him to be on a panel of judges for the Greenwich Business Awards.

Jo has lived in Greenwich and Lewisham for most of her life, and first heard about Home-Start about 40 years ago when a friend volunteered and spoke passionately about the organisation, and the support it gave to families and to the volunteer too.

Jo worked for over 30 years in the NHS first in Dartford, then in Lewisham as a Speech and Language Therapist.  She worked in many different settings, including Early Years, clinics, schools and home visits. She was involved in developing and delivering training to others who worked with children who were experiencing delay or difficulty with communication. 

Jo worked for 5 years in the Sure Start programme in Lewisham where she implemented an evidence based Baby Talk project.

Jo joined HSG as a volunteer after retirement – doing food deliveries in lockdown and home visiting several families for emotional and practical support also.  She also volunteers in a local school supporting children with reading.

Jo has 4 grown up children and 3 wonderful grandchildren.