Staff & Executive Committee
Senior Management
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Daniel CartwrightChief Executive Daniel's experience of service delivery includes working in physiotherapy within the NHS and in forensic psychiatric rehabilitation in the private sector. In his previous work for Brent Mind he played a substantial role in building partnerships with colleagues in the statutory sector to jointly deliver support to service users in supported housing. Daniel has a special interest in raising mental health awareness and projects that support people to make healthy lifestyle choices for better wellbeing and recovery. |
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Kirsty CraigServices Manager Kirsty is a member of our senior management team and is responsible for the Housing and Contact Services. Kirsty ensures that these services provide a high level of support to individuals living across Brent. |
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Vanessa MorrisServices Manager Vanessa is a Senior Manager responsible for the Community Services, Counselling and Mind Map. Vanessa ensures that these services provide a high level of support to help individuals living across Brent to flourish. Vanessa has worked in and managed recovery based mental health and dual diagnosis services for 12 years. |
Horizon Day Services
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John ByrneHorizon Team Leader John leads the teams dedicated to providing well being day services for people with mental health concerns. Current services are Healthy Minds, Growing in Mind, Tuesday Social Club and Friday Wellbeing group. Email: john.byrne@brentmind.org.uk |
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Bianca ZagoHorizon Day Services Co-ordinator Horizon Day Services Co-ordinator's role is to deliver Drop In sessions for people living in Brent, Rainbow Group and Group Befriending. |
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Evelyne AbrahamsBefriending Co-ordinator Evelyne manages our Befriending Service, which uses volunteers to offer regular 1 to 1 and group support to clients with mental distress. |
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Shenade WiltshireHealthy Minds Co-ordinator Shenade is the Healthy Minds Co-ordinator who has been working for Mind for four years. She has a background in mental health, psychology and sport and exercise science. |
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Rebecca PayneHealthy Minds Outreach Worker Rebecca's role involves engaging people with mental health needs in a programme of group-based exercise and activities, based on connection of good mental and physical health, choice and diversity. |
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Virginia CucchiAllotment Worker Virginia is a gardener with many years experience of supporting groups to learn and help stuff grow. Her role at Brent Mind is to encourage members of the community with experience of mental distress to volunteer on our allotment, to help it thrive. |
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Sandra DawsonLocum Worker Sandra is the Day Services Locum Worker. She supports the Day Services Co-ordinator in delivering Horizon Drop In and Rainbow Group sessions. |
Housing Services
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Carol ActiveCommunity Housing Co-ordinator Carol manages our team of housing workers and is responsible for the ensuring that our tenants receive a high level of housing related support across the properties managed by our Housing Service. |
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Mark BrownCommunity Housing Worker Mark provides housing support to individuals across our service. He is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide. |
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Bea JacksonCommunity Housing Worker Bea provides housing support to a individuals across out service. She is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide. |
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Lorna Noel-LeeSenior Community Housing Officer Lorna provides support to the team co-ordinator to ensure that our tenants receive a high level of housing related support across the properties managed by our housing service. |
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Tara ShandCommunity Housing Worker Tara provides housing support to individuals across our service. She is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide. |
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Evelin SaarendCommunity Housing Worker Evelin provides housing support to individuals across our service. She is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide. |
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Amanda EmbertonHousing Management Assistant Amanda works within the Housing Team and is responsible for all housing management issues including maintenance, purchases, rent processing and cleaning. |
Mind Map
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Rochelle BattenMind Map Co-ordinator |
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Marisa Levenson
Youth Development Officer Marisa is responsible for the day to day running of the Peer Educator Programme. Marisa's role involves recruiting, training and supporting young people to facilitate workshops on mental health and wellbeing in youth settings throughout the borough. |
Counselling Service
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Lydia ConstantinouCounselling Co-ordinator (part-time) Lydia job-shares management of our counselling service dealing with allocations, support to counsellors and service standards. She is an experienced counsellor and continues to practice independently as a counsellor. |
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Anne MackayCounselling Co-ordinator (part-time) Anne job-shares management of our counselling service dealing with allocations, support to counsellors and service standards. She is an experienced counsellor and continues to practice independently as a counsellor. |
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Farida BarlasCounselling Assistant & Communications Co-ordinator Farida has a dual role within the organisation. She provides support to the Counselling service, processing referral clients and acting as the first point of contact within the service. She also works as the Communications Co-ordinator and deals with the marketing and communication of Brent Mind. |
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Counselling Assessor This role assesses if counselling is suitable for an individual.
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Alison ForeyCounselling Administrator Alison undertakes all sorts of administrative tasks including booking assessment appointments for new clients. |
Wellbeing Service
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Amy BarnesStaff Wellbeing Counsellor Amy supports our staff in maintaining their wellbeing. |
Finance and Administration Services
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Kieran O'KeeffeReception, Facilities and Administration Officer Kieran is responsible for managing the reception and facilities services and is the first point of contact for all visitors. |
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Envere GllogianiFinance Assistant Envere Gllogjani is a part qualified ACCA Certified Accountant with four years of UK experience in Bookkeeping and Accounting in charities and Fashion. |
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Jean Byrne
Policy and Quality Development Officer Jean is responsible for co-ordinating the development and review of a range of policies and procedures which support the work of Brent Mind. |
Executive Committee
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Giovanna CasatelloChair Giovanna trained as a counsellor and psychotherapist, and works with individuals who are recovering from mental health challenges, and people on the autistic spectrum. She has experience of developing and running a wide range of services, in the voluntary and private sector and in education. Giovanna has been active in facilitating service user involvement, to ensure that the point of view of service users is at the heart of research into and design and provision of psychological, psychiatric and related community services. |
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Prakash MandeliaVice Chair Prakash has 15+ experience of running his own optician business, of book-keeping and of import/export trading. In recent years Prakash has actively contributed to a number of voluntary organsations in the borough of Brent, in a variety of roles.
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Prue CanhamTrustee Prue has 13+ years of achievement in the private sector, particularly in Telecommunications, the last ten years working in a global Fortune 500 company in series of European roles. Prue currently holds a full-time post in the Corporate Strategy Group of the Bedfordshire and Luton Fire & Rescue Service, and also works for a local mental health charity as a counsellor. In her Coaching and Training practice, Prue's ethos is to work with businesses and individuals to help them achieve better results through guided and focused goal planning and personal development, faster than they could do themselves. |
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Hadley HunterTreasurer Hadley is an independent management consultant specialising in business modelling for central government. He worked for the Department of Health for two years preparing national mental health forecasts. He is currently preparing forecasts for the Independent Safeguarding Authority as part of the Home Office Vetting and Barring Scheme. He was a Barnet councillor and a governor of several schools and colleges and has been chairman or treasurer of a number of voluntary organisations. He is a former treasurer and the current chairman of Mind in Barnet. |
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Michael KearneyTrustee Michael joined the Executive Committee in January 2008. He worked for Brent Mind for 13 years, first as a volunteer, then as receptionist to the Counselling Service, administration assistant and finally as a receptionist for the whole organisation. Michael comes from County Meath in Ireland and is actively involved in a number of charities within the Irish community in London.
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Adrian LeeTrustee Adrian is a regeneration and business improvement professional with experience in public, private and voluntary sectors. He worked for over 18 years in social housing, doing estate refurbishments; supporting homeless young people; and representing communities. More recently, Adrian was housing programme director at Shoreditch Trust; ran a programme developing health centres for a PCT; and reviewed the asset management strategy for a housing association. He also worked for 7 years in telecoms as a project analyst at Cable & Wireless.
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Daniel LevyTrustee Daniel has volunteered for Brent Mind since 2004, and is currently a befriender. He has done a variety of work for mental health charities, and in particular for SANE. Daniel has a law degree from Oxford University and his subsequent training as a solicitor facilitates his understanding of the legal duties and responsibilities of Trustees and Directors of Brent Mind.
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