Our people

susuana@arts-emergency.org

Usual working days:
Wednesday - Friday

I provide admin support within the Community Team for our young people. I help coordinate the wish list requests and organise opportunities for our young members, e.g. Ruby Tickets, community events, educational trips, meetings with our network.

sarah@arts-emergency.org

Usual working days:
Monday, Wednesday

I support the busy Programmes Team with admin. I work on keeping mentor reports up to date. I support lots of correspondence and mailouts to mentor pairs and schools. I also help upload and update details in Salesforce.

korantema@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Monday – Thursday

I connect our young people to the wider Arts Emergency network and to opportunities including work experience, paid internships, cultural trips and workshops. I’m responsible for the young person’s newsletter and I also run the Youth Collective - a group of young people focused on advocacy and community.

joe@arts-emergency.org

Usual working days:
Monday - Friday

I lead the mentoring team that supports mentor pairs in London, Brighton, Manchester and Merseyside, helping them to achieve meaningful outcomes for our young people.

rose@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday

I am responsible for recruiting and supporting mentor pairs across the country who are part of our 18+ mentoring programme. I scope out new places for Arts Emergency to work and help to seed projects in new locations, including talking to local volunteers, organisations and schools. I'm originally from Canada and am based in Salford.

tim@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Monday – Friday

I oversee our operational systems and services, supporting the smooth running of the organisation. I also oversee our financial management and coordinate work around governance, compliance and strategy.

tian@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Tuesday, Wednesday

I recruit young people from Manchester schools, train arts industry professionals as mentors and match them to start their year of mentoring. I manage the scheme's admin including communication with parents and schools and mentor DBS checks. I also provide pastoral support for the pairs across the year by being on call with information and advice.

neil@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Monday – Friday

I work with various stakeholders to set our direction as an organisation. I support our programmes team, fundraising and communications, manage our finances and legal compliance as a charity, build beneficial relationships with influencers and gatekeepers and act as spokesperson for the cause.

layemi@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Monday-Friday

I am responsible for recruiting young people in London and Brighton from schools/colleges and partner organisations on to our year long mentoring programme. I facilitate the training of arts professionals to become mentors and match them with their mentees. For the duration of the twelve month programme, I provide pastoral support to the mentor pairs through information, advice and guidance.

aksana@arts-emergency.org

Usual working days:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

I'm responsible for building our work experience programme, especially with a keen focus for those who don't live in London. I engage with organisations to provide paid opportunities, have one to one careers advice sessions with our mentees and alumni, and produce resources and events for our Young Community.

danny@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Wednesday, Thursday

I coordinate the project in Merseyside. I recruit young people, train mentors, connect with schools and colleges and oversee the mentor pairs. I also link with local organisations and help to build our network in the area.

carys@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Monday – Friday

I support the programmes team to make life better for the young people we work with. I ensure mentoring and our other programmes run smoothly, and I am responsible for safeguarding, evaluation and supporting the team. I look at new areas we can work in, and new ways we can support young people.

lucy@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Monday – Friday

I lead Arts Emergency’s fundraising and marketing team and activities. My main goals are to ensure our impactful programmes are well-known, widely supported and fully funded.

blessing@arts-emergency.org

Usual working days:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

I look after administration for all things mentoring, manage the mailboxes, and support mentors and volunteers.

sukayna@arts-emergency.org

Usual working days:
Monday - Wednesday

I support the Communications Manager in engaging and developing our audiences, managing our identity and messaging, and telling the story of what we do. I help produce effective and up to date content across all our platforms and channels, and track data and analytics to see what's resonating best with our community.

helen@arts-emergency.org

Usual working days:
Monday - Thursday

My main focus is on developing relationships and building support to fund Arts Emergency projects for young people. My job is to match organisations and individuals who want to be catalysts for positive change in society for young people, with our work to make this happen.

charlotte@arts-emergency.org
Usual working days:
Monday - Wednesday

I look after our 1800+ regular donors, and oversee all of our community fundraisers. I also support the rest of the fundraising team administratively, keeping our database up to date and reporting on our income, as well as working on our fundraising appeals.

Yomi is a multi-award winning journalist who is a columnist at The Guardian and has a monthly column at the i paper. In 2018, she co-authored the bestselling book Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible with Elizabeth Uviebinene, for which she was named a Marie Claire Future Shaper and was awarded the Groucho Maverick award.

Julian has over twenty years' experience as a fundraiser, primarily in major gifts across a variety of causes. He has worked with funders from small regular supporters to seven figure grants, always aiming to deepen relationships across the charity. He is currently Head of Philanthropy at Anthony Nolan, leading the team looking after trusts and major donors. He was the first member of his family to attend university, studying languages and linguistics, and is proud to be part of such an important organisation.

Silé is a Literary Agent at Mushens Entertainment, working with writers to create engaging stories and proposals for publication. Silé represents an exciting and dynamic list of authors, talent and brands and she is always on the lookout for a good story.

Alex is a child and adult safeguarding expert with over fifteen years experience in the public and private sectors. Until recently she was the safeguarding lead for News, Current Affairs and World Service at the BBC; she currently works as a safeguarding consultant in the charitable sector. Alex is passionate about the arts and spends most of her spare time visiting art galleries and reading poetry.

Perminder is CEO of Bonnier Books UK, and has spearheaded the development of an agile, sustainable business model and work culture, alongside creating the company’s first Inclusion & Representation Action Plan, designed to accelerate progress in the book industry.

David is a lawyer, happily practising in a nerdy corner of the law dealing with economic policy and public decisions. In creative life, he was a founding writer for The Chaser (in his native Australia), back in the halcyon days when satire was possible. He has been a trustee of Arts Emergency since the early days. He is quietly confident that a better world is possible.

Emilie has been a mentor with Arts Emergency since 2013 and has been a trustee since 2015. As our Company Secretary, Emilie also clerks our meetings. As a trustee Emilie brings experience from the Higher Education Sector as the CEO of Oxford Brookes Students' Union and prior to that Emilie was the Director of Membership Engagement at University of the Arts London Students Union and London School of Economics Students Union.

Felicity has been a trustee of Arts Emergency since 2016. A chartered accountant, Felicity is Head of Finance at The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Prior to this, Felicity worked at the National Audit Office, working closely with a number of central government departments