Jill

Jill is a qualified Youth & Community Worker who has lived and worked in Kensington & Chelsea for over 20 years. She started as a volunteer at the Rugby Clubs and ended up managing various Youth Clubs in both the north and south of the Borough. More recently, Jill managed the SHOUT Project, a health initiative co-ordinated by the Dalgarno Neighbourhood Trust. The project was set up to address the health inequalities in the area while raising awareness of living a healthier lifestyle for local residents.

As senior community development worker, Jill is responsible for co ordinating the project and the work of the team and is based at Mygeneration on the Golborne. Her role includes raising awareness of mental health issues and providing an opportunity for local people to discuss these issues. In addition, she will be looking at how the current mental health services could better serve the local BME communities and ensuring that people have access to information about appropriate services and keeping emotionally healthy.

Ashraf

Ashraf has a degree in IT Multimedia and Business Information Systems and has worked in the voluntary sector for 3 years. His interest in Community Work stems from voluntary work undertaken while completing his degree. Ashraf’s last position was in Camden and this enabled him to build on his in-depth knowledge of working with BME Communities in particular around cultural diversity.

As a Community Development Worker, Ashraf is based in the densely populated Dalgarno area. He will provide a drop-in service where his role involves helping people to access appropriate services, filling in self referral forms, translating for people, explaining how a particular service works and what rights they have as a service user. In addition, Ashraf will be promoting awareness of mental health, ensuring that mental health services are more culturally competent and therefore appropriate for the local community.

Shabana

After completing her language studies at university, Shabana has worked in the voluntary sector for the past 6 years and her last job was working for a sexual health and drugs agency in Earls Court providing advice, information and guidance to people involved in the sex trade and substance mis-users.

Shabana is our Team Administrator and has been involved since the project’s inception. She is responsible for setting up a range of systems including finance, monitoring & evaluation and the co-ordination of operations. Shabana assists with promoting the project at various events and undertakes training and focus groups with the team.

Lynette

Lynette has a Bsc(hons) degree in Psychology and is currently in her final year of becoming a qualified counsellor. She was previously a Social worker from 1994-2002 working with the Children and families team in Lewisham.

Prior to coming to the 4minds team she worked for MyGeneration as their Project Co coordinator, planning and delivering projects and programmes, initially working as a volunteer for over a year.

As Community Development worker, Lynette is still based at MyGeneration.

Jane

Jane has lived in North Kensington all of her life. As a youngster she attended various youth provisions in the area. In the later years she volunteered at the Rugby Clubs then went on to paid employment as a Youth Worker for two years. She then went on to working in various youth projects in the North of the borough. In 2005 Jane began work with the Rugby Portobello Trust as a full time Care & Support worker, supporting young people 16-25 years old living in hostels with life skills in order for them to go on to live to independently.

Most recently Jane worked as an Outreach Support Worker, working across eight London boroughs with families living in temporary accommodation supporting them in accessing various services- Battling isolation, benefits, temporary & permanent accommodation, accessing health services, accessing children’s services. At present Jane is undertaking an NVQ3 in substance Misuse.