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Mark Perrott, Chief Executive, has worked in the inner city for 18 years. He spent 6 years working for The Earls Court Project with those caught up in life-controlling issues and homelessness. He was then founder and chief executive of The Regeneration Trust which pioneered and developed work on the Worlds End Estate (1996-2005) and on estates in Tollington, North London (2003-2005). Over the last 5 years Mark has developed the Toolkit model, mobilising over 400 people into community-based action. mark@catalysttrust.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toby Baxter, Director of Community Development, has 16 years in Community Development & Social Work. He has worked with high risk youth and trained and mobilised over 300 mentors and coaches in the UK and Australia. He has management experience with South East Alcohol & Drug Services and with New Peninsula Community Caring in Melbourne, Australia, and as a consultant to the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales. He has published 3 training programmes for mentors and coaches working in the inner city and managed a Youth Crime Prevention Scheme on public housing estates in Banbury and North and West Oxfordshire. toby@catalysttrust.org Polly Harrington, Project Manager, works in TV presentation and production and has experience in project management and development in a variety of settings. She is also a Grandma's volunteer supporting a child with HIV and has worked with ex-offenders in the past. polly@catalysttrust.org |
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Julio Mekki julio@catalysttrust.org |
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Josephine Wakeling josephine@catalysttrust.org For the last 10 years Josephine has worked with women exploited by prostitution. She and her husband Mark help set up the Door of Hope Project (www.doorofhope.org.uk) in London. They have also been involved with the National Christian Alliance on Prostitution (NCAP www.ncapuk.org ) since its inception. Josephine has worked in the substance misuse field in Hackney and has also trained volunteers to become drug and alcohol workers. She has been teaching on Urban Mission Toolkit for the last 3 years and is currently a freelance trainer and is involved with NCAP’s Management and Development Team. |
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Andy Smith andy@catalysttrust.org Andy is co-founder and head of youth and community services for Regenerate, a charity working into the Alton estate in South West London. He lives on the estate where Regenerate has been working for seven years, running projects for children, young people and families. They are now starting to work on other estates in South and West London using a mobile youth centre (a converted double decker bus) and are also in the process of setting up a new creative arts centre for young people in Roehampton. Andy has also been involved with taking young people from the estates over to Kenya and is helping set up projects there for young people who live on the streets or in slums. |
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Nick & Helen Russell helenandnick@catalysttrust.org Nick & Helen Russell, have been living and working on the Ferrier Estate (Greenwich) for several years with children, youth gangs, addicts, marginalised people and families at risk. They have a background in community development, evangelism and are committed to supporting the community as it transitions through a difficult period of redevelopment. |
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David Trebilcock david@catalysttrust.org David Trebilcock trained as a social worker and completed an MSc in Applied Social Studies at Oxford University. He worked for 14 years with the Probation Service supervising adult offenders, specialising in sex offenders. For part of this time he was seconded to the prison service and worked at HMP Grendon as part of the assessment team and, again, with sex offenders. This was followed by work at HMP Spring Hill, an open prison before returning to court work. He helped to set up the Oxfordshire Youth Mentoring Scheme with Toby Baxter of the Crime Intervention Service. David also works part-time as a drugs worker with a local GP, with patients who are dependent on heroin. During the rest of his week he is a Project Manager with Spurgeons overseeing community projects in Oxford and Banbury. |
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