Your title, when you joined and what motivated you to join ELBA:
Director of Partnerships, BIG Alliance. I joined ELBA in 2016, moving to the BIG Alliance in 2023. I initially joined ELBA as a Project Manager in the Education team, which I loved. I have stayed for the people and culture!

Key contributions or focus:
BIG Alliance is a special organisation, bringing together a committed Islington network of corporate and community partners. My role is to support our corporate partners, aligning their CSR strategy with the need in Islington, and ensuring together we make the most positive impact possible. We are incredibly proud of our Community Resourcing programme (CoRe), were colleagues from three of our corporate partners team up to support a community partner for six months. In 2023 my incredible team and I supported almost 3000 volunteers, over 1500 beneficiaries, from over 80 different community partners.

Professional background and perspective:
I started my early career teaching English as a Second Language and enjoyed working with young people so much I sought a job at Young Enterprise, in which I cut my teeth running workshops for halls of 100+ young people. I believe young people are the answer – tomorrow’s future holds so much promise as we learn and grow.