Janet Matthewson – Sports/ Barnet FC Community Trust (CHAIR)Janet has worked for the Trust for over four years now, re-launching it in 2006 and managing it through to obtaining its charitable status. The Trust operates, with the backing of Barnet FC, the Professional Football Association, the Football League and overseen by the Football League Trust and a board of trustees.
Janet is a strong believer in partnership working and the valuable role we all have to play in providing diversionary activities for our young people. Janet says “The job is great because I believe in the power of community and in the power of sport, by combining the two it gives a great platform from which to work. Our aims and objectives are simple – we aim to help make our community safer and stronger; to engage the community we serve; to help reinforce important social messages; to get our community active and to develop local footballing talent. What better job is there?” Janet has worked as a volunteer running a local youth football team for 7 years and was involved with the set up of the annual Barnet High Street Christmas Party,
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Steve Neale – Christian Youth GroupsSteve is the BCVYS out reach worker and also project manager for Barnet Community Projects. He is a street pastor and has worked for many years with local churches in supporting youth work and inter faith work.
Russ Dyble – Uniform GroupsRuss has worked in the voluntary sector for three and a half years, having previously worked for a top 10 European IT Services company as a Bid Manager. Russ also has first hand experience of voluntary youth work as a Scout Leader in a troop of over 70 Scouts (10-14 year olds) every Friday! In addition to this, he is a trustee of Woodfield After-school Club – which runs play provision for young people with learning difficulties.
Currently employed as Development Manager for the Scout Association in Greater London North, Dadia Conti – CommUNITY Barnet Children’s Services ManagerDadia is the Children’s Service Manager at CommUNITY Barnet. A trained Youth worker she ran community education services in Rural Derbyshire before returning to her roots in Barnet to run the Whitefield Youth Club on Clitterhouse Estate. She worked for Barnet Play Association as the Integrated Play development worker from 1994 a project that she developed until 2005 when she took on her current role.
Her passion is real inclusion and a belief that healthy communities include everyone; disabled young people, self confident girls, boys and all marginal groups; travelers, gay youths and refugees. She is the chair of the Barnet Integrated Youth Support Service Partnership. |
Harris Rosenberg – Jewish Youth GroupsHarris Rosenberg, BA(Hons), DMS, DipPA(Connexions), is actively involved in Barnet’s Jewish community at a local synagogue and borough level. He is engaged in fifteen local authorities, ComUNITY Barnet and other committees. His principle expertise, built up over many years in business and the voluntary sector, is on overhead cost reduction – particularly energy saving – and grant fundraising. Harris is the author of 14 books, and a contributor to many publications relating to various aspects of grants, financing, business development and community engagement.
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Alison Kira – Crime DiversionAlison Kira has worked with young people for 18 years, over ten of which have been spent working with ‘at risk’ young people in the field of crime prevention and early intervention.
She has worked for Catch22 (formerly Crime Concern & Rainer) for eleven years; designing, establishing, and managing services to meet local need. She currently manages the Barnet Action 4 Youth service, and a national v funded volunteering programme. Alison has a BSc hons degree in Psychology and is a qualified hypnotherapist |