Our Trustees
Carolyn Herbert
About Carolyn
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.
Zethu Makatini
Elizabeth Aderoju
About Elizabeth
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.
Kingsley
About Kingsley
Kingsley is a Director of All Change Here Ltd, a specialist provider of advice on organisational change, HR strategy and HR system improvements.
Kaan Azmi
About Kaan
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.
Amy Copeland
About Amy
Amy brings over 20 years experience in digital transformation and strategy. She is currently a leader at Google, responsible for the global partnership. Prior to this she led the digital transformation for the largest UK media owners, News UK and Global Radio. She is an active member of groups supporting women, loves fitness and giving back to the Greenwich community
Joanna Lewins
About Joanna
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.