Trustees

Gargie Ahmad - Co-Chair

Gargie joined the board after coming across Centre 70's amazing work when doing research around tackling racial and ethnic inequality in the mental health sector. She appreciated our local community based support offer and wider outreach, which she is now proud to support as a local south London resident.

She now supports community research and co-production work for the public health team at Southwark Council, and is a mental health researcher at King’s College London. She has experience in charity fundraising and programme management support for the UK migrant rights and advocacy and international development sectors.

Gargie is a member of the Counselling sub group and Fundraising sub group.

Laura joined Centre 70 in 2019 due to her passion for access to justice, in particular social welfare law and seeing the importance of Centre 70’s role in the Lambeth community.

Laura has spent several years raising funds for the advice sector and has been involved with the running of the Pro Bono Week campaign since 2022. Laura currently works in Stakeholder Engagement at the Bar Standards Board.

Laura is a member of the Fundraising Sub Group.

Ex-journalist and currently a department manager at a London University. Experience of large budgets, HR and personnel, some estates work. Project management experience. Chair of the Finance and Personnel Sub Group.

Kate joined as a trustee in 2017 keen to get involved in an organisation supporting her local community.

She has over 20 years voluntary sector experience, running Superhighways - a digital, data and tech capacity building programme for small charities in London, based within the Council for Voluntary Service in Kingston. She has a good knowledge of the small charity environment and experience of working in partnership, fundraising and managing and developing teams.   

Kate is a member of the Communications & marketing sub group, the IT sub group and the Fundraising sub group.

Staff

Advice team

Mark Batten MBE, Head of Advice Services, Welfare Benefits and Housing Casework Supervisor - Joined in June 1984. Gives advice under the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) contract and Lambeth funding. LAA contract representative.

Vaccant, Director - 

Vacant, Specialist Housing Solicitor and Housing casework supervisor  

Ruby Kaur, Specialist Advice / Support worker - Joined April 2008. Gives student grants, finance and debt advice under Walcot Foundation funding

Helen Griffith MIMA (Cert), Specialist Debt Advisor and Supervisor- Joined January 2018. Approved debt intermediary for Debt Relief Orders

Kasia Abramowicz, Specialist Advisor - Joined December 2013. Gives advice under Lambeth and other funding 

Ayshen Cagliyan, Specialist Advisor -  Joined May 2018. Gives advice under Lambeth and other funding. Also delivers Benefits and Money Management workshops. Provides supervision on Welfare Benefits

Mark Pacsoo, Specialist Advisor - Re-joined May 2013. Gives advice through sub contracts including to provide advice in Prisons and to ex offenders and gives Housing advice including under the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) contract 

Idoia Reams, Specialist Advisor - Joined February 2017. Gives advice under Lambeth funding and funding to provide advice in outreach locations

Michael Eddowes MIMA (Cert), Specialist Advisor  -  Joined January 2022. Advises under various funding and gives Housing advice including under the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) contract. Approved debt intermediary for Debt Relief Orders

Tonia Haworth, Specialist Advisor - Re-joined March 2021. Gives advice under other funding

Marilyn Kehoe, Specilaist Advisor - Joined November 2004. Gives student grants, finance and debt advice under Walcot Foundation funding. Provides advice and information and grant help under Lambeth and other funding

Lois Jones, Information and Billing worker - Joined permanently October 2016

Carmen Sandilands-Faria, Reception and Information worker - Joined 2019

Martina Aslan, Lawyer - Joined March 2014. Gives Housing advice including under the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) contract 

Callum Jones, Housing Caseworker - Joined December 2024. Gives Housing advice including under the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) contract 

Odeta Bajraktari, Housing Caseworker - Joined October 2023. Gives Housing advice including under the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) contract 

 

Counselling and Wellbeing team

Gabriella Andronico, Counselling and Wellbeing Service Manager -  Joined November 2023

Rosie Trustram, Wellbeing and INSPIRE Project Coordinator  - Joined October 2017

Ambra Biagini, Counselling Service Administrator - Joined October 2015

 

Jacqui Eke, Accountant - Joined 2014

Alice Denis, Cleaner - Joined 2016