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Alice Wade

Deputy Director of Operations & Business Development

Alice Wade

Deputy Director of Operations & Business Development

I am an experienced Administrator, Manager and Fundraiser – passionate about supporting communities to improve their lives. With a background in performing arts, I started my career at Arts Council England working within administration, finance, and grant management roles. I joined DanceEast in 2014, as their Development Manager – developing fundraising strategies and securing vital funds for the charity. I feel privileged to now work at Community Action Suffolk the ‘go to’ organisation for the voluntary sector in Suffolk. I joined in late August 2022, to develop my leadership skills and to continue supporting communities through heading up the VCFSE Organisation Development Team – helping to support a diverse VCFSE sector to build capacity, efficiency, and sustainability.

Anoop Singh

Community Development Officer- Reaching Communities

Anoop Singh

Community Development Officer- Reaching Communities

Daisy Bodewes

Community Food Partnership Officer

Daisy Bodewes

Community Food Partnership Officer

I am a community engager and volunteer manager coach, with specific experience in learning opportunities such as train the trainer, change support, and facilitating the sharing of stories and lived experience. With previous experience at the National Trust and Suffolk Wildlife Trust, my passion for supporting volunteer managers and creating opportunities for people to thrive in nature, share their culture, and engage with art, combined with my background in hospitality, sits me nicely within the Food Team at CAS.
Outside my day job, I love printmaking, bookbinding, gardening in my veg patch, and cooking. I’m always interested in hearing about people’s favourite home cooked dishes.

Danny Austin

Danny Austin-Daniels

IT Support & Development Officer

Danny Austin-Daniels

IT Support & Development Officer

Danny is the IT Support & Development Officer at CAS. Previous to CAS Danny worked in a variety of roles across the private sector including BT, where he provided a first line IT Support role for systems and internal staff.

At CAS, Danny’s role is to provide a support and development resource for CAS’s IT requirements including day to day IT support of its internal systems. Danny is also a massive part of IT Services at CAS Ltd, where he supports the IT manager in delivering it’s suite of IT products, including being the primary website developer, and developing all of it’s websites. Danny has a real passion towards developing new web systems that can assist in an organisation meeting it’s objectives.

Gemma Norberto

Support Services Assistant

Gemma Norberto

Support Services Assistant

Gemma comes from a training background and has worked in the insurance industry for many years. She has a wealth of administration experience which she brings to her role in supporting all the teams and functions across CAS . In her spare time, Gemma enjoys being with her husband and 2 little boys.

Hannah Reid

Chief Executive

Hannah Reid

Chief Executive

Hannah is the Chief Executive of Community Action Suffolk with a professional background in Private, Public and VCFSE sectors specifically in business management and development.
Hannah has managed and run various businesses including a private training company, public houses, and a social enterprise supporting young people. Supporting VCFSE organisations to be resilient, aspire and grow so that residents and communities can thrive has been forefront of her career for over 20 years.

Hannah Sanford

Insurance Officer

Hannah Sanford

Insurance Officer

Hannah has joined CAS as an Insurance Officer, operating insurance schemes for Parish Councils and Village Halls. She has 9 years of experience within the travel insurance industry. She began her career as a call handler and also handled the complaints for a well-known insurance provider. In her own time, Hannah enjoys spending time with her husband and two children

Horia Azizi

Organisation Development Officer (Established Organisations)

Horia Azizi

Organisation Development Officer (Established Organisations)

Horia Azizi comes from a legal background with experience in sales, and community service, holding a Master’s degree in International Trade and Commercial Law from Nottingham Trent University. She has developed organizational skills, provided language services, and has a background in sales and client relationship management. Additionally, she has been involved in community service, particularly supporting refugees and handling inquiries.

Jacqui Wilkinson

Training, Quality Standards and Safeguarding Development Officer

Jacqui Wilkinson

Training, Quality Standards and Safeguarding Development Officer

Jacqui is the Training, Quality Standards and Safeguarding Development Officer at Community Action Suffolk. Jacqui has spent over thirty years in the public and VCSE sectors and has had a varied career ranging from organising national conferences for the judiciary to Training manager to hostel housing manager and volunteer youth worker. Her commitment to the most vulnerable in society has resulted in the recurring themes in her career of: safeguarding, policy development, management, youth work and training. Jacqui has previously set up a voluntary group that supported adults who had mental health support needs. Jacqui is a qualified trainer and youth worker and since moving to Suffolk has spent the last fourteen years supporting the VCSE with safeguarding policies and procedures, training and quality standards.

Jacqui delivers the Equipped to Lead Safeguarding in the VCSE course as well as safeguarding courses and can develop bespoke courses on a range of topics including management and safeguarding.

Jacqui also offers 1 to 1 safeguarding surgeries for VCSE organisations to discuss and develop their own safeguarding policy and procedures.

Jasmin Andrews

Communities Coordinator

Jasmin Andrews

Communities Coordinator

Jen Milner

Impact & Social Value Officer

Jen Milner

Impact & Social Value Officer

I have spent the last 16 years running my own consultancy firm in the EU specialising in projects and policy work and looking at market failure in policy across all member states. I also am an experienced bid writer and assessor and have worked in project evaluation, pilot work and project delivery. Prior to this I spent 12 years at the East of England Development Agency working in skills and business support for the region. I am passionate about making sure the region and in particular Suffolk are successful in bidding and receiving funding. I am now hoping I can bring these skills to this role at Community Action Suffolk!

Jenni Coles

Community Development Officer (Village Hall Governance)

Jenni Coles

Community Development Officer (Village Hall Governance)

Jenni joined CAS in December 2024 to work part time as a Community Development Officer with a focus on village hall governance. Her primary role is to support the trustees of village halls and community buildings to deliver their own community development activities, through providing training, self-help opportunities and networking events.
Jenni’s career to date has encompassed working in a range of customer-focused sectors, including the Civil Service, high street banking, the rail industry, libraries and, most recently, sixth form education. Her passion for helping people to achieve their goals has been a recurring theme throughout her working life and she is looking forward to continuing to help people as part of her role with CAS.

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Joanne Whight

Finance Officer

Joanne Whight

Finance Officer

Jo is the Finance Officer at Community Action Suffolk.
Jo has worked for CAS since 2015 and her role includes day to day financial tasks and assisting with the production of management accounts.

Keith Shiels

Community Development Officer- Community Buildings

Keith Shiels

Community Development Officer- Community Buildings

Keith first joined CAS in November 2022 taking on the role of a Men’s Sheds Development Officer. He has since changed roles and works part time three days a week as a Community Buildings Development Officer. Keith’s previous career was in the Education Sector. He started out as a Geography and History Teacher at Benjamin Britten High School in 1985 and finally left the sector as Principal of the Lowestoft Sixth Form College in Summer 2022.

Kerry Overton

Volunteering Services Officer (Training and Learning)

Kerry Overton

Volunteering Services Officer (Training and Learning)

Kevin Burke

Kirkley Centre Administrator

Kevin Burke

Kirkley Centre Administrator

Kevin Burke is the Kirkley Centre administrator, he joined us in 2015. Kevin takes bookings and customer enquiries both on the reception desk and over the telephone. He also helps with room set ups and general centre business.

Louise Bradshaw

Louise Bradshaw

Associate Director of People & Cultural Development

Louise Bradshaw

Associate Director of People & Cultural Development

Louise has over 19 years’ experience in working for the voluntary and community sector across a range of areas including business support, marketing, finance and administration. Louise has worked in HR for over 12 years in various capacities and is now the Associate Director of People and Cultural Development for CAS and part of the Executive Team. Alongside this she is also the data officer for CAS and is the lead for the DBS at CAS service.

Louise is a fully qualified member of the CIPD and holds a Chartered membership. She is responsible for all aspects of HR both strategic and operational from recruitment, selection and induction through to employee casework and disputes as well as maintaining and development of policies and procedures. She also oversees the DBS at CAS as the lead counter signatory. She responsible for the compliance of the service and advises on complex eligibility queries.

Louise also holds a degree in business which has led to a particular interest in business and organisation development, and enjoys creating and developing systems and procedures to better the organisation

Matthew Morling

Matthew Morling

ICT Manager

Matthew Morling

ICT Manager

Matthew is the IT Manager at CAS and has over 18 years experience in the IT industry – 15 of which has been at CAS.

Previous to CAS Matthew worked in a variety of roles in private business focussing on IT Support and website development.

At CAS, Matthew’s role is to provide leadership and management of all of CAS’s internal IT systems, providing day to day IT Support of these but also to head up its subsidiary company IT Services at CAS Ltd, which provides a suite of IT products for the voluntary and community sector. IT Services at CAS Ltd is an income generator for the organisation and this plays it’s part in helping CAS become more self sustainable. Matthew has a real passion for how digital technologies can help all types of organisations become more efficient.

Natalie Lomas

Resources Officer

Natalie Lomas

Resources Officer

Natalie has been with Community Action Suffolk and Suffolk ACRE previously, since 1998. Throughout her time she has worked on various projects and services across the organisation. Currently working in the role of Resources Officer, Natalie is involved with research and mapping for CAS and the VCSE sector, CAS network development, CRM reporting and impact measurement along with supervision of building maintenance for our Brightspace site in Ipswich.

Nellie Kuma

Project Officer (Talking About Cancer Together)

Nellie Kuma

Project Officer (Talking About Cancer Together)

Nellie has joined Community Action Suffolk as part of the VCFSE team to help increase awareness of support and services available, both locally and nationally, to those affected by cancer. Her role will be to facilitate connections, conditions and a setup which allows our communities to talk about cancer together.
She has a varied background and most recently has worked as a primary school teacher. She enjoys spending time with family, going for walks in the countryside, cooking and has recently started playing table tennis in her local community.

Phil Martin

Organisational Development Officer (Start ups)

Phil Martin

Organisational Development Officer (Start ups)

I have worked in the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector for over 30 years. I have held senior leadership and management roles as CEO and Chair, as well as many voluntary and trustee roles.
My experience spans a variety of sizes and types of organisations including startups, local, county, regional, national and international.
I am passionate about the voluntary and community sector improving people’s lives and local communities.
Outside of this role I enjoy long walks, cinema, playing in, and listening to live music bands.

Sharron Marchant

Volunteer Support Officer: Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV)

Sharron Marchant

Volunteer Support Officer: Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV)