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Tracey Burley

Chief Executive

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Nathan Srokosz

Interim Chief Financial Officer

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Nathan comes to St Giles with significant experience in both finance and operational leadership. He started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and went on to spend over a decade working in the charity sector internationally with Save the Children and the Norwegian Refugee Council. His work has taken him to more than 15 countries, where he’s led teams through complex emergencies and challenging environments. Most recently, he was the Finance Director at Hubbub, a London-based charity.

Lornette Pemberton

Executive Director of People

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Andy Cross

Executive Director of

Services

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Andy has worked in social housing, homelessness and offender services since 1987 in the public and voluntary sectors. Over the years he has worked for Hillingdon Council, a number of Housing Associations particularly Family HA, Shepherds Bush HA, Metropolitan Housing Trust and St Mungo’s Broadway. He has been at St Giles Trust since 2003.

His roles have included a wide variety of client facing jobs including housing advice, housing and hostel management, resettlement support, welfare rights advocacy and support as well as developing and managing education, training and employment services including at St Giles Trust. Andy has been the Director of Services since 2008 and is responsible for operational and business development.

Matthew Pilkington

Executive Director of

Communications and Fundraising

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Duncan Gibson

Chair

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Gary Jones

Board Member

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Debra Cook

Board Member

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Debra has worked in Safeguarding for over 30 years.

Prior to her current role as Safeguarding Manager at National Citizen Service, Debra was Head of Safeguarding, Student Engagement and Welfare for a group of further education colleges in South West London.

Previous to that she worked as an Independent Advocate and Safeguarding Lead for Voice, a charity working with young people and adults at risk who are looked after by the state rather in young offenders institutes or through the care system. Debra also spent a year in Romania running an orphanage and have also volunteered in a refugee camp working on food distribution and child welfare.

Julie Rice

Treasurer

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Janet Hills MBE

Board Member

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Janet is a former President of the National Black Police Association (NBPA) and former Chair of the Metropolitan Black Police Association (MetBPA). She was a serving Police Officer with 27 years’ service. She has held a number of posts on the MetBPA Executive, including First Contact Support Co-ordinator and General Secretary, before becoming the first female Chair of the MetBPA in 2013 and then the first female police officer elected as NBPA President.

Janet joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1991. She began her service at Brixton Police Station where she started on response team before venturing into the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Janet has worked in a number of departments including the burglary and robbery squads and the Community Safety Unit. She went onto specialise in the Human Trafficking Unit before returning to Brixton on promotion as a Detective Sergeant. She was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2021.

Pippa Murray

Board Member

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Erica Handling

Deputy Chair

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Erica is an executive coach and a non-executive director with over 30 years of experience working in the City as a law firm partner and General Counsel.

Erica’s work as a coach focuses on supporting leaders in the corporate sector, as well as the public and charitable sectors. Currently, Erica, sits on two commercial boards: Petershill Partners Plc, managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (which invests in interests in private equity firms); and the Dutch market maker, Optiver.

She was previously a non-executive director on the Board of the Government Legal Department and is currently Chair of Spark Inside which provides transformational coaching to people in prison and St Giles Trust which supports people facing various life challenges such as poverty, exploitation and contact with the criminal justice sector to build a positive future.

Caroline Waddington

Board Member

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Sally Eley

Board Member

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Sally is Head of the CIPD Trust, which supports people getting into work, getting back into work and developing in work by harnessing the knowledge, expertise and talents of the people profession. The CIPD Trust is part of the CIPD, the professional body changing the world of work, whose purpose is to champion better work and working lives.

Prior to this, Sally was the Director of the City & Guilds Foundation – the purely philanthropic part of City & Guilds that brings to life the purpose through a range of activities including the Princess Royal Training Awards, the Future Skills Commissions, the bursary programme, engaging young people and measuring the beneficial impact the City & Guilds Group has in society.

Sally held the role of Communications Director at UK Skills and was part of both the WorldSkills International and WorldSkills London 2011 teams. Before joining City & Guilds, Sally had a successful career as a freelance communications consultant with clients in the education, training and care sectors.

Charles Pitts-Tucker

Board Member

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Executive Team & Board

St Giles' Leadership Team

Board

Duncan Gibson

Gary Jones

Debra Cook

Julie Rice

Janet Hills MBE

Pippa Murray

Erica Handling

Caroline Waddington

Sally Eley

Charles Pitts-Tucker

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