Experience

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  NCVO

  • Practical Support Manager

    • Oct 2023 - Present

    Overseeing the practical support of charities around the UK turning over £0 - £1m, designing training and digital content and partnering with others to improve the third sector.

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  Project Lighthouse

  • Chair of the Board of Trustees

    • Jul 2023 - Present

    Chair of trustees for an exciting start-up charity providing trauma informed, digital support to survivors of domestic abuse and child removal.

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  Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery, Exploitation and Abuse

  • Honorary Research Fellow

    • Jan 2022 - Present

    I lecture on complex safeguarding of vulnerable people, advocacy skills and risk assessment whilst contributing to the centre’s development.

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  Sheffield Hallam University

  • Sheffield, United Kingdom

  • Guest Lecturer

    • 2014 - Present
    • Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Lecturing on:Human TraffickingGrooming and Sexual ExploitationTrafficking and the lawIdentity developmentEntrepreneurial social work

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  Snowdrop Project

  • Sheffield, United Kingdom

  • Founder and CEO

    • May 2012 - Oct 2023
    • Sheffield, United Kingdom

    After directly observing the need for long-term support for survivors of trafficking and slavery around the UK, I founded The Snowdrop Project, which quickly gained recognition for its pioneering work in government, research and policy as the first organisation to tackle this issue. I have taken the charity from £0 income to just under £1m, with 24 staff, 85 volunteers, and supporting over 200 beneficiaries a year. Through Snowdrop, I have helped to change and lengthen the entitlements of support for survivors of trafficking in the UK, winning various awards and authoring national guidance. I am a well-respected voice in the South Yorkshire charity sector and the UK anti-trafficking sector, and a go-to person for the BBC and government to provide insight.As part of the strategic income generation plan for Snowdrop, I led on the purchase of a 5-story building to provide stability for the charity and rental space for other charities in the city. I now oversee the tenancy of 7 other charities and asset management.

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  Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner

  • Advisor to the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner

    • 2019 - 2022

    As an advisor to Dame Sara Thornton, the UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, I was selected as one of two advisors from the NGO sector to be part of a larger board that met quarterly to provide feedback on progress and significant developments in the field.

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  City Hearts

  • Case Worker

    • Sep 2011 - Oct 2013