Senior Management Team

Jan Knight

Chief Executive
Email:jan.knight@brentmind.com

Jan provides leadership to Brent Mind Staff Team and Volunteers. She is responsible for development of the organisational strategy and for overall management of the organisation. She has also a key role in building and maintaining external relationships and contacts.

Kirsty Craig
Services Manager

Email: kirsty.craig@brentmind.com

Kirsty is a member of our senior management team and is responsible for the Housing and Contact services provided by Brent Mind. Kirsty ensures that these services provide a high level of support to individuals living across Brent.

Claire Felix
Services Manager
Email: claire.felix@brentmind.com

Claire is a member of our senior management team and is responsible for a number of services and their coordinators including Befriending, Counselling, Hearing Voices,Rainbow and Mind Map. Claire is also a lead for Brent Mind on day services planning.

Contact Service

John Byrne
Senior Contact Worker
Email: john.byrne@brentmind.com

John provides support to individuals across Brent who need our support with issues regarding their own or a family member's mental health. John is responsible for the smooth running of our Contact Service.

Shira Goodhall
Contact Worker
Email: shira.goodhall@brentmind.com

Shira provides support to individuals across Brent who need our support with issues regarding their own or a family member's mental health. Shira provides support to the senior worker to ensure smooth running of our Contact service.

Nutan Modha
Information Worker
Email: nutan.modha@brentmind.com

Nutan is responsible for the maintenance of an up to date library of information accessible by residents in Brent. Nutan supports the Contact team in areas of IT and is the initial point of contact for all phone calls to our Contact Service.

Housing Services

Carol Active
Community Housing Coordinator
Email: carol.active@brentmind.com

Carol manages our team of housing workers and is responsible for the ensuring that our tenants receive a high level of housing related support across the properties managed by our Housing Service.

Celestina Johnson
Community Housing Worker
Email: celestina.johnson@brentmind.com

Celestina provides housing related support to a caseload of individuals across out service and is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide.

Abi McNeill
Community Housing Worker
E-mail: abi.mcneill@brentmind.com

Abi provides housing related support to a caseload of individuals across our service and is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide.

Lorna Noel-Lee
Senior Community Housing Officer
Email: lorna.noel-lee@brentmind.com

Lorna provides support to the team co ordinator to ensure that our tenants receive a high level of housing related support across the properties managed by our housing service. She is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide.

Mark Brown
Community Housing Worker
Email: mark.brown@brentmind.com

Mark provides housing related support to a case load of individuals across our service. He is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide.

Anastasia Panayiotou
Community Housing Worker
Email: anastasia.panayiotou@brentmind.com

Anastasia provides housing related support to a caseload of individuals across our service. She is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide.

Bea Jackson
Community Housing Worker
Email: bea.jackson@brentmind.com

Bea provides housing related support to a caseload ofindividuals across out service. She is responsible for ensuring that our tenant's views are heard and are at the centre of the service we provide.

John D'Arcy
Housing Management Assistant
Email: john.darcey@brentmind.com

John provides support to the housing and finance services within Brent Mind. He is responsible for maintaining the rent accounting system and for purchasing and maintenance across our housing service.

Horizon Day Services

Deirdre Leyden
Horizon Team Leader
Email: deirdre.leyden@brentmind.com

Deirdre coordinates and manages a number of Horizon services accross Brent Mind.

Evelyne Abrahams
Befriending and Hearing Voices Coordinator
Email: evelyne.abrahams@brentmind.com

Evelyne manages our befriending service, which uses volunteers to offer regular 1:1 and group support to clients with mental distress. She also runs a weekly support group for people who hear voices - follow link for details.

Rose Archer
Befriending Scheme Worker
Email: rose.archer@brentmind.com

Rose assists Evelyne with the coordination of Befriending, helps to run a regular befriending group, and provides telephone befriending to clients waiting for personal support.

Ana O'Connell
Volunteer Coordinator/Day services co-ordinator
Eemail: ana.ocnnell@brentmind.com

Ana's role is to recruit, induct, train and support volunteers that will help run all services at Brent Mind. She is also a Day Services Coordinator and delivers the twice weekly Drop In sessions for people living in Brent.  She also co-ordinates the Group Befriending, which provides a safe environment for a group to go out and engage in the local and wider London community

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Mind Map Coordinator
Manages a service doing mental health awareness work with younger people aged from 11, mainly in schools, using peer educators - young people from age 16 who develop age-appropriate information and deliver Mind Map "workshops".

Charles Dennis
Schools Development officer
Email : charles.dennis@brentmind.com

Charles will deal with the recruitment and training of volunteers to become Peer Educators to promote the awareness, revention and impact of mental health. Charles will also deliver workshops with the support of peer educators within secondary schools, community base centres and local community.

Counselling Service

Lydia Constantinou
Counselling Coordinator (part-time)
Email: lydia.constantinou@brentmind.com

Lydia job-shares management of our counselling service, which provides 1:1 counselling for adults, dealing with allocations, support to counsellors and service standards. She is an experienced counsellor and continues to practice independently as a counsellor.

Anne Mackay
Counselling Coordinator (part-time)
Email: anne.mackay@brentmind.com

Anne job-shares management of our counselling service, which provides 1:1 counselling for adults, dealing with allocations, support to counsellors and service standards. She is an experienced counsellor who also continues to practice as a primary care counsellor.

Farida Barlas
Counselling Assistant
Email: farida.barlas@brentmind.com

Farida provides a reception service and administrative support to the Counselling service, and is also supporting effective promotion and fundraising.

Well Being Service

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Well-Being Counsellor
Email: allan.eno@brentmind.com

Healthy Minds Team

Melanie Purkiss
Healthy Minds Outreach Worker
Email: melanie.purkiss@brentmind.com

Melanie is often out and about working with agencies and supporters to join the Healthy Minds project.

Sara Stanton
Healthy Minds Co-ordinator
Email: sara.stanton@brentmind.com

Sara is a key member of the Healthy minds team, ensuring all the activities and projects for this service run smoothly.

Finance & Administration Services

Umarani Nathan
Business Support Manager
Email: umarani.nathan@brentmind.com

Supports work of the Chief Executive and Executive Commitee. She is also responsible for the marketing aspects of Brent Mind including Impact Report, website, events and AGM as well as building maintenance and ICT.

Jess Bryant
Central Services Assistant / Rainbow Group coordinator
Email: jess.bryant@brentmind.com

Jess has a dual role within the organisation. She is our main face of Brent Mind and supports the smooth running of the organisation including reception duties. She also manages our Rainbow Service providing a quality service to older women in Brent.

Greg Coates
Finance Manager
Email: greg.coates@brentmind.com

Greg is the Finance Manager of Brent Mind and is fully qualified ACCA Chartered Certified Accountant with over 20 years experience in the Industry and the Not for Profit Sector. He is responsible for Management Accounts, Year End Statutory Accounts and all financial matters affecting                                Brent Mind.

Envere Gllogiani
Finance Assistant
Email: envere.gllogiani@brentmind.com

Envere Gllogjani is an Accounts Assistant at Brent Mind. She is a part qualified ACCA Certified Accountant with four years of UK experience in Bookkeeping and Accounting in charities and Fashion.

Nicollette Watson
HR Administrator/Receptionist
Email: nicollette.watson@brentmind.com

Nikki does two jobs here, one is primarily helping out with Human Resources, the other is covering on reception. She works part-time in both jobs.

Brent Mind Executive Committee

Giovanna Casatello
Acting Chair

Giovanna joined the Executive Committee in 2006. She is a counsellor and psychotherapist, and works with individuals who are recovering from psychiatric episodes, and people on the autistic spectrum. She has worked for a number of voluntary organisations facilitating service user involvement, to ensure that the point of view of service users is at the heart of the design and provision of psychological, psychiatric and related community services

Mohamed Soliman
Acting Vice-Chair

Mohammed joined the EC as a trustee in August 2005, but had been a member of the group for seven years as Chair of the User Forum (no longer in existence). Mohammed has used Brent Mind's services for 17 years and has an interest in the empowerment and development of people that use Brent Mind's services. Mental health issues have affected Mohamed for most of his adult life, hence his passion for Brent Mind.

Juliet Obiora
Treasurer and Trustee

Juliet joined the EC in March 2006 and is a qualified accountant. Juliet brings international finance and accounting experience. Juliet has a keen interest in mental health.

Chris George
Trustee

Chris joined the EC in August 2005. Chris is the director of Loud and Clear Mental Health Advocacy and a freelance journalist working in the field of mental health. Chris has worked for a number of voluntary organisations and legal practices, supporting the rights of people using mental health services.

Daniel Levy
Trustee

Daniel has been a service user of Brent Mind services since 993 and a volunteer since 1992. He is currently volunteering for Brent Mind as a Befriender and has done a variety of work for the mental health charity Sane. Daniel has Law Degree from Oxford University and his subsequent training as a solicitor facilitates his understanding of the legal consequences as a trustee and Director of Brent Mind.

Michael kearney
Newly appointed trustee.

Michael joined the Executive Committee in January 2008. Michael worked for Brent Mind for 13 years, first as a volunteer, then as receptionist to the Counselling Service, admin assistant and finally as a receptionist for the whole organisation. Michael comes from County Meath in Ireland and is actively involved in a number of charities within the Irish community in London.