trustees

The Volunteer Centre is run by a board of 9 trustees.  We are lucky to have trustees with a diverse mix of skill and experiences including that of local residents, volunteer management, active citizenship, big companies, employee supported volunteering, supported volunteering and engaging hard to reach communities. The board meets quarterly as do its two subgroups that cover Human Resources and Finance and General Purposes.

Claire Helman
Chair of Trustees

Kate Bowget
Vice Chair of Trustees

Kate has been working in volunteer management for the last ten years. Her first job was managing London Nightline where she was the only paid member of staff, working with 100 volunteers. Since then she has worked in a variety of different volunteer management roles including National Volunteer Manager at Terrence Higgins Trust and Information Officer at Volunteering England. She has also managed projects making volunteering more accessible; spearheading the campaign to allow volunteers on bene….
Currently she is the Volunteer Management Advisor for the London Museums Hub, working with museums across London to support the development of sustainable, good quality, volunteer involvement. She has had several books on volunteering published including the Good Practice Guide, Deciding Whether to Involve Volunteers and Selecting Volunteers for Volunteering England, and Working With Volunteers: a Good Practice Guide for Refugee Community Organisations for the Evelyn Oldfield Unit.

Shelagh Kirkland
Treasurer

Michal Bukola
 

Michael became a trustee of Volunteer Centre Southwark in 2007. He became a trustee after a successful term on Southwark Alliance, the local strategic partnership for the borough, where he was one of the resident members on the Alliance’s board. An active citizenship enthusiast and follower of local politics more generally, he’s had previous involvement with number of local voluntary groups including Southwark Patients Forum where he once was Chair; Blackfriars Settlement, St. John Ambulance Service and a School Governor of a local school. Michael works in the City of London as a business adviser.

Michael’s interests include both following and participating in a number of sports, particularly rugby and football, and he can often be found wasting his Saturday afternoons covered in mud and failing miserably to understand the offside rule. His frequent ambition is to have more time to sleep.

Ashley Bivens

Philroy Forte

Krishani Ranaweera

Rachel Solomon 

Phil Nicols