Realife People

Realife benefits from an experienced and committed staff  and volunteer team, many of whom have personal experience of disability.

Our emphasis on community networking and sustainable community building has resulted in a large number of volunteers and partnership working arrangements with other organisations including:

• Partners in Policymaking - family carer network
• Cambridge Brokerage Network
• National Brokerage Network
• Realife Social Work Student Unit
• Stortford Music Festival - annual music and arts festival
• East Herts self-advocacy group
• Actability
• Talentworks Trust
• Tobin Trust
• Frontline Partnership
• FACE

Kadie Chapman (Support Broker)

Co-founder of the Cambridge Brokerage Network, based at our office in Fulbourn, Cambridge

Aimee Yates (Support Broker)

Co-founder of the Cambridge Brokerage Network and course adminstrator for the Eastern Region NBN programme

Tony Phillips (Director)

Ba(Hons) in Applied Social Studies and a qualified Social Worker with 20 years experience of designing, managing and developing innovative support services in the social care sector. Ten years experience of senior management level consultancy with the National Development Team (former ministerial advisory body for learning disabilities in the Department of Health. Ten years business management experience as partner in the Realife Partnership. Previous senior management experience in Local Authority Social Service responsible for the re-provision of a 160 place day centre into 9 new community based projects over a three year development period. Currently Eastern Region Co-ordinator of the National Brokerage Network.

Tony 'retired' in December 2008 to concentrate on the work of the Realife Social Work Student Unit and the development of support brokerage in the Eastern Region.

tony@realife.org.uk

Keith Winter (IT Support)

Webmaster and IT specialist with an additional role in fund-raising for our community music projects

Maire Cordell

Volunteer Co-ordinator and Ebay Shop host

Andrew Dix ( Admin Support)

I have worked for Realife for 6 years as admin support helping people with their computer skills.  Most reception tasks are maintained on a daily basis around the office, e.g. filing, photocopying, copy typing, & working with excel spreadsheets.  I am a member of the East Herts Forum, we hold meetings every month & whenever other meetings that the Herts Forum links into e.g. Council Meeting & Valuing People Meetings I will attend them meetings with another member with the Project Worker of East Herts Forum. .

John Delaney ( Press Officer-Actability )

Realife Trustee and Office Support

Karen Johnson ( Assistant Director-Inter County )

Realife Trustee and Stortford Music Festival Committee.

Mark Brookes ( Project officer: Values Into Action )

Chair of Trustees

Jane Myers (Project Managers)

Co-ordinator for Partners in Policymaking (Eastern Region) and for the Essex Carers network. Jane is chair of the Uttlesford Local Action Group and is a member of the ECC Partnership board.

jane@realife.org.uk

Joanne Hough

Co-ordinator for Partners in Policymaking (Eastern Region) and board member, Inclusion Partnership.

joanne@inclusionpartnership.org.uk

Sara Kent

Project worker: Partners in Policymaking and Herts Carer Network

Christine Redshaw

Project worker: Partners in Policymaking

EISE & John Mason ( John Mason )

Inclusion worker on the work skills for inculsion project. Jhon is also the vice chair of the Essex County Council Participation and Advisory group, John has worked for the Realife Trust as a mentor project training and now cover the chelmsford area as inclusion worker.

Carina Goehing

Realife Social Work student unit 2010

Sarah Ashbrook

Realife Social Work student Unit 2010

Siobhan Maslen

Realife Social Work student unit 2010 and Sainburys project lead

Ian Shaw

Realife steering group member. Social Worker and Realife social work student unit member 2008

Alan Tyne

Realife steering group member and board member, Inclusion Partnership

Joel Oram

Realife steering group member and social work student unit 2009