Helen was born and brought up in Cardiff, but has lived in Wimbledon, Surbiton and now Claygate for over 20 years. In that time she has worked for the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority but now works for Lloyds Banking Group, Insurance, where she is the Head of Compliance for the Solvency programme. She spends a lot of time travelling to Edinburgh as well as serving as a local ma... Read More
Alison is an experienced Office Manager/Executive Assistant with financial planning and people management experience. She has an excellent breadth of knowledge as a result of a varied career in both the banking and not-for-profit sectors. The YMCA is very much an integral part of Alison’s life. She first became a Board Member of Wimbledon and District YMCA in 1987 and has represented the YMCA at... Read More
Iain is a qualified Chartered Physiotherapist and has been working in the Higher Education sector for the last 20 years. He runs the School of Rehabilitation Sciences in the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, a joint venture between Kingston University and St Georges University of London. Iain has a wide range of experience working across boundaries and this is particularly true of his cu... Read More
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Marcus moved to London to study a degree in Theology with Business in 1991, an interesting choice for a committed agnostic. Three weeks into the degree he had a conversion experience and became a Christian. After graduating he did a couple years in retail followed by six years in sales before becoming the Minister of Elim Pentecostal Church Wimbledon in 2000. Marcus was ordained in 2004 and embark... Read More
Ruth is an independent training consultant within the youth work field. She has practised youth work since she was nineteen and took early retirement as Head of the Youth Service in the London Borough of Ealing in 2002. Ruth is the Chair of The Centre for Youth Work Studies and Associate Lecturer and Honorary Fellow of Brunel University. She has undertaken numerous pre – inspection checks for y... Read More
Simon is a Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he works in Corporate Finance. He provides advice to Government Departments on the financial and commercial elements of large commercial transactions both in the UK and overseas. Simon also has significant previous experience as a civil servant working across all levels of Whitehall, including advising Ministers. Simon is on the PCC of Emmanuel ... Read More
After many years first as a social worker and then a senior manager in local authority settings, Thora worked for ten years in the senior team of YMCA London South West. Her career has centred on providing services for people with disabilities. Now retired, she is a Pastoral Assistant within her local parish church and enjoying walking, gardening, travelling, music and the arts and leading a U3A F... Read More
Tony lives with his wife and two children in Chessington and works for the NHS as a Senior Manager for a London Primary Care Trust. In 1999 Tony became a founding member of the Christian Peoples Alliance and served on its Federal Executive, with responsibility for policy development. In the past he has ran as a MEP candidate in the South East Region. Tony is currently actively working for progre... Read More
Val was born and brought up in South London and has raised her family there too. She can remember herself as a child waiting to catch a bus home opposite Kingston YMCA in its old home on Eden Street. Val first heard of YMCA LSW through her work with AZTEC, the Training and Enterprise Council, and its successor organisation The Learning and Skills Council. Whilst working on a project with her curr... Read More