Our team

Charles is a strategic business leader, financier and growth specialist with expertise across banking, small-medium and large corporates as well as charities. He is founder of consultancy and investment firm Karlsrock. Previously, he has held senior roles at firms including Anglo Irish Bank, Novell Inc., and Wall Street Systems. While at these firms, he successfully drove profit through prudent investment, treasury, asset and liability management, deal origination and structuring, sales and marketing. In his spare time, Charles has represented Ireland at an international level, most recently playing in the European and World Cup touch rugby championships.

Carly is the Group Digital Marketing Manager at Aviva and Director of The Giving Department, a specialist consultancy that believes in the business case for corporate social responsibility. With almost two decades of experience in marketing and communications, Carly has a passion for embracing the ever-changing digital landscape.

Joseph has 23 years of experience working in charities supporting children, young people and their families in the UK to build better futures. Joseph has been Chief Executive of Buttle UK for five years and has previously held senior fundraising, and communications roles at Depaul UK, Action for Children and The Prince’s Trust. He is also Chair of the End Child Poverty Coalition, a group of 110+ organisations dedicated to the cause of alleviating child poverty.

Dan is a director and advisor to a number of events industry companies: Cuil Bay Capital, Raccoon Media Group and Pendragon Media Group. He is also a non-executive director of AIM listed Interecede Group plc, a cybersecurity software company. He was CFO and Chief Operating Officer at events organiser Tarsus Group for 12 years until its recent sale, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW). He has worked as a finance director of listed and private equity owned companies across the media sector over the last 20 years.

Nikolai is Finance and Data Director at Winmark. He has over 20 years’ experience providing financial governance and developing the data strategy for leading organisations in both the public and private sectors. Nikolai is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW).

Alex is currently the Head of Operations at a Youth Homelessness charity with a specialised background in Safeguarding and Operational delivery. Having worked within the criminal justice system for over 16 years, Alex is passionate about enabling opportunities, and adopting a trauma informed approach for Young People combined with an equity of access to services.

David is a highly experienced Executive Head Teacher of an All-through 3-19 community school. He has worked in diverse inner-city schools for 40 years. He is passionate about social justice and improving the life chances of every child through access to high quality education and health care.

Emma is currently Business Change Manager at the London School for Economics and Political Science. She has previously held leadership roles in the charity sector, including Director of Education for LGBT+ young people’s charity Just Like Us. She specialises in effective organisational management, as well as how external providers can work with schools to improve life chances for children and young people. She began her career as a secondary school teacher and has always been committed to making the most of the transformative power of education.

Matt is the Founding CEO of Learning Ladders Education, a mission-driven EdTech platform that improves school data management and parental engagement for International Schools. Matt is a former teacher, education author, speaker and also an elected Executive Council member for BESA (British Educational Suppliers Association), and a co-founder of the EdTech Evidence Group. Prior to switching to a career in education Matt was MD of a successful Marketing agency in London. He is also a parent, school governor and charity trustee.

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Working with the Board of Trustees and others in the management team, Jaine is instrumental in developing strategies to reach more young people, thereby ensuring that they have the support they need to thrive and achieve; and along the way, responding effectively to changing demands and other external factors. She is passionate about the work of School-Home Support, having seen first hand the impact and positive change our work has on young lives. Jaine has over thirty years’ experience in managing early intervention and community health services.

Maggie is responsible for managing all of School-Home Support’s family intervention services, ensuring professional standards and outcomes are the best they can possibly be. Maggie has been working in services for children and families for over fifteen years.

Cat is responsible for shaping, implementing and strengthening the organisation’s digital processes and infrastructure to support School-Home Support’s growth into a national charity. With over thirty years’ experience in IT,  training, and operations delivery and management, Cat is passionate about driving forwards professional standards through effective systems and being impact evidence led with contributions to strategic decisions so that School-Home Support’s expertise benefits families nationally.

Alec leads the Fundraising Team and is responsible for developing and delivering the associated Fundraising and Marketing strategy for the charity. His team works across School-Home Support to support communications needs and ensure we have enough voluntary income to deliver many of our services. Alec has worked across fundraising and marketing at a senior level for the past 15 years.

AJ leads the Finance and HR function across the organisation. After over 25 years in commerce, AJ moved into the non-profit sector and has been working with charities for over six years.  She is passionate about supporting the whole School-Home Support team and helping drive operations and strategy to reach more families and young people.

Rachael leads School-Home Support’s policy and public affairs work, raising our profile with Government and politicians and campaigning on the issues which matter most to the families we support. She has 20 years’ experience helping a broad range of organisations engage with public policy makers in Whitehall, Westminster and the European Union.  The daughter of two teachers, Rachael always had lots of support at home to help her flourish at school. She wants all children to have that same start she had.

June has over 35 years’ experience as a senior international HR professional, within a number of professional companies. Her commitment to School-Home Support has been to advise and strategise on establishing a team that are effective at empowering people, and to drive the required improvements in Culture, Leadership, Development and Talent to meet the charity’s strategic goals. Her role as a People professional, is to contribute to the end goal of helping to get children back to school.

Adele works to support the Family Intervention team, and administers the Welfare Fund. Her background is primarily in delivering training workshops within the public sector, and coordinating global conferences for creative and innovative marketing and event companies. Adele is also training to become an Accredited Psychotherapist to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and adults.

Amy has spent the last ten years working within schools in a safeguarding and family engagement capacity in areas that present significant challenges. Her experience includes engaging with families and professionals to make sure families are accessing the best possible support. She knows and understands the importance of fostering good relationships and is passionate about relational practice when working with children and their families.

Ashleigh is part of School-Home Support’s fundraising team, where she manages relationships with some of our trust and foundation funders. Before joining School-Home Support, Ashleigh worked with the British Red Cross, a responsible investment charity and a local homelessness organisation.

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Beth is responsible for the delivery of School-Home Support’s communications activity, supporting the organisation’s engagement with key stakeholders including schools, funders and policy makers. She has a masters degree in Human Rights from the University of London and is committed to building a more equitable society where every young person has access to the support and opportunities they need to thrive in school.

Briana is part of our Corporate Partnerships team, managing existing relationships as well as helping to grow our account base. She has previously worked at a Superleague rugby club in both the foundation and commercial sales team, before moving on to a regional account management role. Briana is now working in the charity sector where she feels her true passion lies.

Carol has worked in primary and secondary schools as a DDSL and Safeguarding Officer for over 12 years. Prior to this she worked in PR and Communication roles. Carol is also an experienced foster carer and works alongside her husband and two adult children, and has been fostering children and young people for over 16 years. She is passionate about expanding and enhancing the life outcomes of all children and young people and understands the importance of schools working in partnership with families in order to best achieve this.

Dominique is the SEN Lead at SHS, working within the family intervention team. Her role is to support all practitioners with their SEN cases and deliver SEN training and updates across the charity. With 16 years experience of the SEN sector, Dominique has worked across education, social care, playwork and family support with children and families with various SEN needs. She is passionate about advocating for meaningful inclusion and the rights of children ensuring that their voices are heard. Dominique is also the vice chair of governors within a primary school.

Emma’s role is to support and grow the School-Home Support profile in the north of England and manage teams of School-Home Support Practitioners in Bradford and Manchester. With over 20 years’ experience working in the charity and education sectors, Emma’s background includes working closely with schools as a Relationship Manager as well as creating and delivering training to schools for a leading examination board. She held the role of team leader (Manchester) in a children’s charity which provided literacy interventions for children aged 3 to 16. Her most recent appointment was with Manchester Metropolitan University at the Centre for Youth Studies, where she facilitated research in this area.

Emma is responsible for School-Home Support’s trust and foundation funders. She is passionate about equality of opportunity and ensuring access to education for children and young people. She has worked in the charity sector for over 10 years, building partnerships with a wide range of trust and foundations and enjoys developing opportunities for grantmakers to have a real impact.

Enkita works in the Fundraising team, managing existing relationships with our Corporate Partners and identifying new, potential funders. Having worked on numerous charity projects and causes, she remains passionate about supporting young people.

Freddie works in the fundraising team, managing existing relationships with some of our trusts and foundations funders and identifying new and potential trusts and foundations. Having previously worked in roles helping young people engage in their education in Bristol and Norwich, Freddie wanted to focus his efforts on helping address the challenges faced by young people that prevent them from accessing their education and help them realise their full potential.

Hannah is our Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager and helps the corporate team to build long term sustainable and strategic partnerships with companies in various sectors. She is passionate about engaging businesses to support our delivery services by working with their Foundations, their staff, customers and clients to deliver some really impactful partnerships. Hannah’s experience spans from large charities such as Marie Curie to smaller charities including Keech Cottage Children’s Hospice and working within corporate fundraising, major gift fundraising and community fundraising.

Helen is responsible for School-Home Support Major Gift Funders. As someone who believes education is one of the key components to social mobility and life chances for young people, she is committed to children accessing education. Helen has worked for a variety of charities and has 25 years experience in the sector, specialising in Major Gift philanthropy.

Ibrahim is our IT Assistant, and his role is to assist the IT Manager with all the day to day tasks involved in the running of School-Home Support’s IT systems. Ibrahim has a degree in Computer Networks from the University of East London.

Josephine is our Finance Manager, handling all of School-Home Support’s day to day financial activities. Josephine has over 18 years experience working in various sectors in finance. Before joining School-Home Support, Josephine worked for Bridgestreet Accommodations London as a Management Accountant for 9 years.

Luke has over 7 years of experience in various charities, providing data analysis, trend identification and managing projects to improve data collection and systems. As Impact and Data Manager he leads on developing the collection and demonstration of the impact of our work, to be used as part of our growth strategy and supporting School-Home Support to become an impact driven organisation.

Melissa works closely with the Development Manager, Chief Executive Officer and wider team members, providing executive support including research, planning, governance and administrative support. She wanted to work for School-Home Support as she shares the same values and is passionate that all young people should get the support they need to help them thrive.

Michael has over two years experience in IT technical support and data management which developed strong skills in providing support to others, troubleshooting and ensuring data quality and integrity. As Database Administrator he responds to data report and analysis needs, provides data focused expertise and training, and works with teams to ensure data quality. Reporting to the Impact and Data Manager he helps to monitor performance metrics and explore information recorded to articulate the impact of our services.

Michael supports School-Home Support’s policy and public affairs work. This involves developing policies and advocating these to Government, Parliamentarians and other key stakeholders to ensure the interests of the children and families that SHS supports are heard. Michael had worked with SHS’ policy and engagement team through his previous role at a political monitoring provider. He has an MA in Political Philosophy from the University of Warwick and is committed to ensuring that arbitrary factors in a child’s life do not prevent them from attending school.

Nicola’s role is to increase the impact School-Home Support has on children and families in England’s northern regions, as well as manage the team of School-Home Support practitioners there. She previously worked for a charity offering literacy interventions to children aged 3-16, having spent many years working with other organisations offering various support to nurseries, schools and sixth form colleges. Nicola has also mentored underprivileged teenage girls in Manchester and volunteered as a co-elected school governor for four years.

Precious is a dedicated People Operations & Systems Manager with a strong focus on improving workplace efficiency and enhancing the employee experience through strategic HR initiatives. She specialises in optimizing HR systems, streamlining processes, and cultivating a positive organisational culture. With extensive experience in talent management, HR technology, and operational strategy, Precious has contributed to multiple sectors, implementing systems that align with both people and business objectives.

Sarah comes from a background of 20 years in primary education. Her previous role was deputy headteacher and DSL of a primary school in the heart of Blackpool. As a mum of 5, Sarah understands the ups and downs of family life. She is passionate about young people and families reaching their full potential and thriving by getting them the right support at the right time. Sarah is responsible for the safeguarding of our families, practitioners and central teams as well as leading the Pastoral Development Service.

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Stephanie is our prospect researcher. Her role supports the wider fundraising team to identify new sources of funding and uncover links that help strengthen our supporter base and fundraising efforts. Before joining School-Home Stephanie trained as a media archivist and worked as a prospect researcher within the University of Glasgow’s development and alumni team.

Teresa is a creative communications specialist with a passion for storytelling, travelling and social justice. She has recently completed her research on gender roles and domestic violence prevention from a communications for social change (C4D) perspective. Teresa has several years of experience providing communication support for charities on projects relating to gender-violence prevention, economic empowerment for vulnerable youth, human rights and indigenous people’s rights. She believes that when we all work together, we can achieve a better future for children, making sure they have access to health, quality education and protection against violence regardless of their background or origin.

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Talitha is part of the Corporate Partnerships team primarily focusing on developing new partnerships. With a decade of experience working in the film/media industry and cultural non-profits, she strongly believes in the power of storytelling and collaboration to bring about social change and is thrilled to have found a home at School-Home-Support.

Yadgar has responsibility for overseeing IT infrastructure including telecoms, cloud based platforms, cybersecurity and IT budgets. Working closely with teams across the organisation, he supports with project management and developing IT strategies that align with SHS goals and improving operational efficiency and effectiveness. He has a degree in Computer Networks from the University of East London.