Our Team
Our staff
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Operational |
Position |
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Mehfuz Ahmed |
CEO |
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Alberta Gutteridge |
Head of Services |
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Carly Connolly |
Business Development & Fundraising Manager |
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Stephen Spavin |
Community Services Manager |
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Fay Fagon |
Digital Marketing & Communications Manager |
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Grace Nuttall |
Volunteer Coordinator |
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Information & Advice Project |
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Susan Mustafa |
Information and Advice Manager |
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Odette Messiah |
Complex Needs Advice, Advocacy and Support Co-ordinator |
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| Nicola Lawton |
Information and Advice Co-ordinator |
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| Adele Braithwaite
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Cost of Living Adviser |
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Loneliness & Isolation Project |
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Souad Abdellaoui |
Activities Coordinator |
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Ayesha Kashem |
Befriending and Activiites Support Coordinator |
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| Sarah Robinson |
Digital Inclusion Coordinator |
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Our Trustees
Chair of Trustees - Fiona Healy Connelly
Fiona is a Documentary Filmmaker who headed The Foreign & Commonwealth Office Film Unit after a career in Broadcasting working for the BBC, and a wide variety of independent production companies. Her Awards & Professional Achievements include: an IVCA GRAND PRIX WINNER for 'If Only We All Played Cricket' and a request from JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY for 'HIV - Truth or Dare' for use in perpetuity.
Vice Chair - Dr Ann Black
Ann has been a trustee of Age UK Westminster for 4 years. Her background is in health care, having had a 40 year career as a doctor in the NHS. She trained in General Practice and Anaesthesia, spending most of her career in anaesthetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
As a trustee, she am committed to ensuring Age UK Westminster is the ”Go To” resource for older people in Westminster. She has been busy over the lockdown supporting and volunteering at the food parcel service for the local clients. Knowledge of health care issues allows her to push the agenda for local residents' needs and to encourage digital inclusion, which will be so important to the future development of services.
She is committed to improving the rights and wellbeing of all older people in Westminster. AUKW have a fantastic team, which works extremely hard, on so many fronts, to build a successful and responsive charity.
Treasurer - Neil Carthy
Ian Adams
Ian has lived in Bayswater, Westminster since 1996 and has been a member of Westminster City Council since 2002, where he has held a number of senior positions, including as Cabinet Member for Adults. Ian is a Director of NHS Resolution (formerly the NHS Litigation Authority), which provides indemnity cover to the NHS in England.
He has served as a Trustee of Age UK Westminster since 2015 and in 2017/18, when serving as the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Ian nominated Age UK Westminster as one of his mayoral charities.
Michele Mestrinaro
David Durnford-Slater
David worked a lifetime in the Shipping Industry both in the UK and abroad. He was Marketing Manager for P&O Far East Services, General Manager of LNG Carriers, and Director of NOL Ltd, a startup in the marine sector of the offshore oil industry. In 1981, he set up DSB Offshore, a small specialist shipbroking company.
He joined Age UK Westminster in 2019 as a befriender and was elected Trustee in 2020.
David Kent-Lemon
David spent most of his career working for a UK based multi-national energy company. Although based mainly in the UK, David has had overseas postings in Germany, Holland and Belgium. He held directorships in local gas and oil companies and trade associations. He was also Chairman of one of the world’s largest crude oil terminals, located in Rotterdam. He holds a BA in Business Studies, and he is a novelist – ‘Blockade Runner’ published by Pen and Sword Books in 2012.
David joined the Age UK Westminster trustee board in 2022.