The Team

Chief Executive -  Mick Hayes
Mick has overall responsibility to the Board for delivering on their strategy and ensuring that the Trust meets all its legal and charitable responsibilities. He is charged with building strong working relations with the Trust's key partner organisations and leading the staff team in making best use of the Trust's resources (staff, skills, property, assets, money) to deliver on our charitable objectives in a sustainable way.  mhayes@trust-thamesmead.co.uk

Interim Head of Community Development -  David Stone
David manages and has accountability for the development of the Trust's community development activities, ensuring that we work with the community on our priority issues of social and economic exclusion e.g. unemployment, childcare and youth alienation etc. david@trust-thamesmead.co.uk

Head of Community Services -  Dawn Young
Dawn leads for the Trust in ensuring that those services that the Trust either directly provides, commissions or supports in other ways are delivered in a sustainable and accessible manner, are of high quality and that they improve the quality of life for Thamesmead residents. She is also the first point of contact with schools, colleges and training providers to improve the education, skills and employability of local people and acts as the Trust's first point of contact with local businesses to ensure local people gain from inward investment and new employment/training opportunities in Thamesmead. dyoung@trust-thamesmead.co.uk
 
Head of Staff & Organisational Development - Frances Jones
Frances manages the Trust's Human Resources function and works at a senior level with internal and external partners to champion the Trust's people management and development policies and practices.  Frances is leading on the Trust's aspiration to be an ‘Investors In People' organisation. fjones@trust-thamesmead.co.uk

 Head of Finance -  Sam Karuhanga
Sam ensures that the Trust operates within its own financial rules and the regulatory framework and that our services deliver maximum financial benefits securing long-term financial stability in order that we may fulfil our objectives to the community. skaruhanga@trust-thamesmead.co.uk

Head of Communications & Marketing -  Elaine Johnson
Elaine leads the Trust's marketing and communications activities and challenges the misconceptions and historical prejudices regarding Thamesmead by working with internal and external stakeholder groups. ejohnson@trust-thamesmead.co.uk