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  1. About us
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Our team

So who puts the show on the road?

Young Citizens possesses a lively, dynamic and diligent staff team. While most staff are based in our London head office, we also have great colleagues and consultants stationed around the UK.

Our fabulous staff drive our charity towards our ambitious strategic goals.

Meet our team...

Senior Leadership Team

This team co-ordinates the work of Young Citizens so that we're focused on increasing the number of young people we help to be active citizens.

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Tom Franklin, Chief Executive

Tom has been CEO since 2016. He was previously CEO at Think Global, the global citizenship charity. Tom was a young councillor in his 20s, and it was this experience which inspires him especially to help empower young people to take leadership roles in their communities.

E: [email protected] 

T: 020 7566 4141 (switchboard)

Yvonne Richards, Director of Programmes and Learning

Yvonne oversees the development of our programmes and resources, including lesson plans, mock trials competitions, student conferences and our social action programmes. She is also our Designated Safeguarding Lead.

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 4151

Ray Ayivor, Director of Finance and Operations

Ray manages the overall operations of the charity – including our finances, governance, ICT, performance management, HR and premises. He basically keeps things (and us all) on track.

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 4141

Richard John, Director of Partnerships and Communications

Richard has been with us for over a decade overseeing the development of programmes in schools and building bespoke partnerships with corporates. He also leads on our communications strategy so we can expand our reach and depth of engagement to benefit even more young people.

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 4152

Published: 26th January, 2018

Updated: 14th January, 2021

Author: Tom Franklin

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Programmes and Learning Team

This team delivers our wide range of programmes, resources and training events - ranging from our Mock Trials, to our Social Action Programmes, to providing teaching resources for teachers.

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David Kerr, Consultant Director of Education

David advises us on citizenship curriculum issues, and takes the lead in much of our European and overseas work. He is Head of Initial Teacher Training at Reading University. He has a huge amount of experience in citizenship education, and was co-leader of the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study.

E: [email protected]org

Ted Huddleston, Consultant in Civic and Citizenship Education

Ted is an international consultant in citizenship and human rights education. He has published widely in the field, both in the UK and abroad. A Council of Europe ‘expert’ for many years, he has experience of professional training and consultancy in a range of countries in Europe and the Middle East.

E: [email protected] 

T: 0207 566 4141

Naomi Kennedy, Education Manager

Naomi leads on the production of all our resources – ranging from SMSC lesson plans, to materials about the law and young people, to special resources on topics like Brexit or elections – for both primary and secondary schools.

E: [email protected]

T: 0207 566 4158

Victoria Quijada, SMSC Quality Mark Manager

Victoria manages the SMSC Quality Mark, which helps schools improve the quality of their SMSC provision. She also provides advice and guidance to schools around SMSC.

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 4141

Akasa Pradhan , Programmes Coordinator

Akasa co-ordinates our Mock Trials Competitions, for secondary school pupils, working alongside the wonderful magistrates and legal professionals who volunteer their time to make our competitions possible. She also develops our programme of student workshops.

E: [email protected] 

T: 020 7566 4142

Kieran Burch, Programmes Administrator

Kieran supports the whole of the Programmes and Learning team, making sure that the many events we coordinate each year go smoothly, whilst also helping people with bookings.

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 4155

Stella Baynes, Programmes Manager

Social Action Programme Manager, coordinating our recently launched online Make a Difference Challenge programme which provides a framework for primary practitioners to deliver social action in schools. Previously she set up the Democracy Ambassadors programme which supported young people aged 13 – 16 to talk to their peers about the importance of, and their role within, our democracy.

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 4141

Callum Pethick, Programmes and Learning Administrator

Callum is our Programmes and Learning Administrator, supporting The Make a Difference Challenge, SMSC Quality Mark and Mock Trial programmes by providing admin support, taking bookings and answering queries from schools.   

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 1501

Niamh Mawhinney, Volunteer Coordinator

Niamh’s role is funded by Time to Shine at the Rank Foundation for 12 months. Niamh coordinates and provides support to the 2,000 plus volunteers who are involved in Young Citizens programmes, resources and events. 

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 4154

Published: 27th January, 2018

Updated: 14th January, 2021

Author: Tom Franklin

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Partnerships Team

This team develops our strategic partnerships – including with corporates, other charities and the public sector. The team leads on the development of our Experts in Schools programmes.

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Therri Tait, Partnerships Manager

Therri oversees our partnerships programmes, including developing our Experts in Schools to reach more schools and expert volunteers. She is always open to exploring ways in which Young Citizens can compliment your organisations. More recently she developed our student Brexit conferences.

E: [email protected] 

T: 020 7566 5035

Mathilde Fell, Partnerships Coordinator

Mathilde works closely with our corporate partners to broker education programmes in schools. She has a passion for interventions that support better education outcomes for young people and ensuring first class service to our valued partners.  

E: [email protected] 

T: 020 7566 5038

Published: 28th January, 2018

Updated: 22nd September, 2020

Author: Tom Franklin

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Communications and Sales Team

This team makes sure that those who need to know about our work most - teachers, youth workers, and the media, for example - get to do so. It also handles sales and bookings for our projects.

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Leah Hardy, Digital Marketing Executive

Leah looks after our social media - persuading people to write posts for our blog, and regularly posting on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram about our work. Make her happy, by following us and joining in the conversation!

E: [email protected] 

T: 020 7566 4141

Tara McCarthy, Sales Executive

Tara looks after our sales, particularly to schools.  She'll sign you up, remind you when you need to renew...and gently nudge you to pay (well, we are a charity!).

E: [email protected]

T: 020 7566 5036

Rachel Drayton, Digital Projects Coordinator

Rachel keeps our CRM in great shape - which is the engine behind much of our campaigning, communications and programmes.

E: [email protected] 

T: 0207 566 4130

Published: 29th January, 2018

Updated: 1st April, 2020

Author: Tom Franklin

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Support Services Team

This team helps to keep things running smoothly - things like governance, HR, IT, premises, finance and so on.

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Valentina Graham, HR Coordinator

Valentina looks after all aspects of the human resources - if you apply for a job at Young Citizens, it's likely that Valentina will be involved.

E: [email protected] 

T: 020 7566 4145

Published: 30th January, 2018

Updated: 17th December, 2018

Author: Tom Franklin

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Young Citizens
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Email [email protected]

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