Meet the team

Meet the Team

Tina Mayers

CEO

Barbara Lambert

Finance Officer

Beatrice Panduru

Project Co-ordinator

Shahrazad Gomes

Administrator & Publicity Co-ordinator

Children & Young People Practitioners

Mehrun Karim

Andrulla Apostoli

Marisa Lagraa

Norma Bailey

Marti Buenaventura

Alex Freitas

Nirtionk Kareem

Marsela Piposhi

Support services

Caroline Wallis

Therapeutic Counselling &
Parent and Infant Relational Group

Keith Mallinson

Advice & advocacy

Alyce Esin

Systemic Family Therapy

Our Trustees

Tracy Webb: Chair
Tracy has worked in healthcare throughout her career and is currently the Director of Services and Impact at Teenage Cancer Trust. She is particularly passionate about supporting young people to live happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. She has been the Chair of SBFP since 2016 and is incredibly proud of the work the charity does. In her spare time Tracy loves visiting her family in Wales and cuddling her cat, Thomas!

Fred Morgan: Director
Fred is an English teacher of 12 years experience in the state sector and so understands how vital it is to the success of young people and families to have a safe and nurturing space outside of the classroom where they can be supported. As a life long resident of Shepherd's Bush, he was aware of the vital work SBFP did in the local community before becoming a trustee in 2018. Since working more closely with the committed team and families at SBFP, he has been even more impressed by the positive impact the charity has on so many people's lives.

Alarys Gibson
After graduating from Oxford with a degree in Languages, and subsequently training as a secondary school teacher at London University, Alarys had a career in international advertising and marketing in London and Paris before starting up her own headhunting company. In parallel she worked as a volunteer counsellor with Childline before taking on a paid role there. She has subsequently worked in publishing which dovetails neatly into her personal love of literature, particularly writing on women and family issues. Her greatest loves, however, are her baby grandson and dog, with both of whom she spends as much time as possible!

Mugabi Turya
Mugabi is committed to the cause of helping families and young people. He worked as a legal aid lawyer representing clients in child protection, immigration, education and family law matters. Mugabi now works a Producer for the BBC World Service creating TV and radio programmes. In recent years he has volunteered at The Passage, a charity that focuses on homelessness, with Prison Radio, creating programmes for prisoners and as a mentor to young people aspiring to work in the media.

Jessica Campbell
Jessica is a Theatre Producer working for the Bush Theatre, a stone's throw away from SBFP rooted in the local community. She has worked in theatre across West London - at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill and Theatre503 in Battersea - and the capital and the company she co-founded, DEM Productions, won the Off West End Award for Best Producer. Jessica is proud to be on the board of a charity so vital to the families of Shepherd's Bush.

Max Goldzweig
Max is a science journalist and TV producer who spent 10 years living and working in Shepherd’s Bush at the BBC. He has also been a youth leader in the Woodcraft Folk, an educational movement that gives children and young people a place to grow in confidence and learn about the world. He is proud to have the opportunity to help SBFP continue it’s life changing work and support of the local community.

Laura Semple
Laura joined the board of trustees in 2021 after learning about the terrific work SBFP does in supporting families and children to live fulfilling and healthy lives. Laura is a senior leader in the NHS, having worked in various operational and healthcare improvement roles since she joined the NHS as a graduate trainee in 2009. Prior to that Laura worked in editorial at a large educational publishing house in Berlin. From late 2016 Laura was the first non-clinician to volunteer long-term with the King's Sierra Leone Partnership based in the teaching hospital in the capital Freetown, Sierra Leone. She is committed to playing her part in improving health locally and globally and is proud to be a trustee of SBFP. Laura currently works as Director for National programmes for the 15 Academic Health Science Networks in England.