Meet the board

Athena has worked for the NHS and health and social care for many years, and has been involved with various pan London and local groups and serviced or chaired numerous multi-agency committees and Boards. She was also a School Governor for a local special school and was a founding member of a local autism group. Her career has spanned psychiatric research, health education and promotion, health improvement, and  strategic multi-agency work including commissioning of health services.

Chair

Lorraine is an active member within the local Redbridge community. She has a long commitment to volunteering and is currently involved in many health and social care organisations as committee member on the BHRUT, Chair of ONEL People’s Platform, and many other health and social care organisations.  As a volunteer advocate with a local User Led Organisation; Lorraine has experience of working with disabled people in support of benefits advice, housing and employment issues.  For the last ten years she has been the Chair of the Cranbrook Residents Association.

Mo is a member of the Board of Trustees for Age UK Hounslow and Treasurer of Gardens of Peace, an Ilford based Charity. In both organisations, he has overall budgetary control and financial governance. His broad business experience covers IT, HR marketing and Project Management gained over the last 25 years. Mo is a Chartered Accountant.

Emma has had over 7 years’ experience working at a local Healthwatch, since the inception of the Healthwatch Network. Emma is a Redbridge resident and plays an active role in the local community to ensure that the patients voice is always heard. Emma used to sit on the London Borough of Redbridge Health Scrutiny Committee as a Co-Opted member and utilises her experiences of using local health services to work as a patient representative with local hospital trusts.