Gerry Wright, Treasurer

Gerry trained as a chartered accountant at KPMG, working there for 13 years. She has subsequently worked in the banking sector, within accounting and regulatory areas. She has been involved in local primary schools as a governor for nearly 10 years, specifically with a focus on finance. She has been a trustee at Little Village since May 2020.

Caley Eldred, Trustee

Caley Eldred is the director of supporter engagement for Royal Star & Garter, which provides loving and compassionate care to veterans and their partners living with disability and dementia. She is responsible for the fundraising, marketing and communication functions, and manages income of over £5.4 million. She was previously the director of development at the youth charity City Year UK, and has held director-level roles at both the food-waste charity FareShare and special-care baby charity Bliss. She’s been a trustee at Nurture UK, and has also been a school governor for a total of 11 years, working on the boards of two south London primary schools.

Katharine Sacks- Jones, Trustee

Katharine is Chief Executive of Become, the national charity for children in care and young care leavers. Katharine has a background in politics and campaigning and has worked in the charity sector for most of her career.  She has spoken about and written extensively on disadvantage and inequality and has sat on and chaired government advisory groups.

Katharine is a trustee of Children England. She is also a mum to two lovely small people. You can find her on Twitter @KatharineSJ

Helena Simpson, Trustee

Helena has over 15 years’ experience in the consumer & retail industry across a number of senior roles in strategy, corporate development and operations. She is currently Chief Executive Officer of a London-based start-up. She is mum to two little ones and lives in Richmond.

Jacqui Penalver, Trustee

Jacqui is responsible for planning and performance at the RSPCA, the world’s oldest animal welfare charity.  Jacqui has twenty years’ experience in the voluntary sector, working in senior roles focused on performance, governance and compliance. Voluntary roles have included being a school governor and an independent member of governance committees at both the Royal College of Nursing and Kent Students Union.

Kate Husselbee, Trustee

Kate provides people and organisational development consultancy expertise to Boards, CEOs and senior teams. Kate has worked with a variety of organisations in the charity, private and public sectors and has over twenty years’ experience in HR leadership, organisational design, equity, diversity and inclusion, shaping culture and improving performance. Kate also has experience of leading a wide range of corporate services functions, with her most recent executive role as Director of Strategy and Transformation at Rethink Mental Illness. Kate joined as a Trustee in 2023.

Matthew Chisambi, Trustee

Matthew Chisambi is a Londoner whose day job isInterim Director of Strategy at the North West London Health Innovation Network, Imperial College Health Partners. Whilst he now specialises in supporting the NHS, he has varied private and public sector experience; having been a Strategy Consultant at Monitor Deloitte, national healthcare policy advisor and school teacher as part of the Teach First programme. Public service is a core driver for his career and he believes digital, data and meaningful dialogue create significant opportunities to improve public services. He’s recently become a dad for the first time and growing up his family faced some of the challenges faced by Little Village’s families.