Our Team
Our staff
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Operational |
Position |
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Mehfuz Ahmed |
CEO |
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Liz Tack |
Head of Services |
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Carly Connolly |
Head of Fundraising, Marketing & Development |
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Fay Fagon |
Digital Marketing & Communications Officer |
| Natalie Calderon |
Fundraising Support Officer |
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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 |
| Nicola Lawton |
Information and Advice Co-ordinator |
| Adele Braithwaite
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Cost of Living Adviser |
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Rand El-shebli |
Information and Advice trainee adviser |
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Wellbeing & Connections |
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Julia Parr |
Wellbeing & Connections Manager |
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Hadyn Lord |
Befriending Coordinator |
| Sarah Robinson |
Digital Inclusion Coordinator |
| Stephen Spavin |
Dementia Service Coordinator |
| Misha Ansari |
Community Outreach Coordinator |
| Corinne Botha |
Digital Inclusion Project Manager |
| Amira Habane |
Digital Inclusion Coordinator |
| Community |
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| Stephen Spavin |
Community Services Manager |
| Souad Abdellaoui |
Activities Coordinator |
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
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.
Rasika Meena Kaushik
A highly skilled Civil Servant and seasoned negotiator. Rasika has worked in Central Government on some of its toughest challenges often seen doing programme management in Crisis.
Delivering frontline government work across strategy, governance and operational delivery with the skills to make things work in a complex system! Rasika joined the Age UK Westminster trustee board in 2024.
Joel Levack
Joel Peter Levack is a London-based artist whose work mixes humour, curiosity, and a touch of chaos across painting, drawing, sculpture, instant photography and performance. Chosen as one of the top six young artists in the North of England at 15, Joel’s early work toured the UK and he starting selling
paintings at 17. He briefly studied at Leeds College of Art, and by 20 he opened a second studio in Brooklyn, New York. He has since exhibited widely, launched one of London’s first pop-up galleries, and created an album cover for The Kooks.
His career has also circumnavigated the wider arts sector, including a decade in live event festivals. He’s also worked on and off in TV, film and Comercials.
He is passionate about making creativity accessible to all and, as a trustee at Age UK Westminster, is committed to creating opportunities for older adults to connect and share in the joy of art.