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Meet the Team
Peter Kay, Chief Officer
Peter has an accomplished career in business and enterprise support in a variety of roles in the north of England. Peter's experience of working in all sectors drives Ouseburn Trust's business model to ensure innovation in project delivery. As a consultant on behalf of Locality, Peter further shares his expertise to inspire business growth across the Development Trust Association membership delivering financial, strategic and operational guidance. Particular areas of interest include building economic and social capital with local communities of interest.
Peter has an MBA in Business and Finance from the University of Bolton and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Peter is also a member of the Institute of Consulting. As a Trustee with East End Community Alliance, Peter applies his strategic management skills to benefit community development activities in the East End of Newcastle and is an early adopter of new approaches to community regeneration. In his spare time, Peter is Chair of Alnwick and District Beekeeping Association, also enjoys travelling and is a keen gardener.
peter.kay@ouseburntrust.org.uk
Kitty Porteous, Admin and Finance Officer
Kitty joined the team in September 2009 as Admin & Finance Officer. Her main responsibility at the Trust involves maintaining all financial records, including monitoring and reporting for funders. Kitty’s role can be quite varied due to the wide-ranging enquiries and the many office visitors we get on a daily basis; she has built up a good rapport with many of our volunteers.
Kitty is Sage certified and has an Introductory Certificate in Management which is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute. Outside of work, Kitty has a PhD in Music from Newcastle University, which explores hip hop culture in New York. Her other interests include producing a fortnightly radio show for Basic FM, making cakes and pampering her 17 year old cat called Fizzy.
Office hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm
kitty.porteous@ouseburntrust.org.uk
Clive Goodwin, Victoria Tunnel Co-ordinator
Clive worked as a Civil Servant, until taking early retirement in 2007. During his career Clive enjoyed working with people in a variety of Child Benefit and National Insurance roles. In particular, Clive was involved in the early identification of Identity Fraud (stolen and miss-use of National Insurance numbers). That role rapidly evolved in the early 1990s as fraudulent use of identities increased and means of dealing with it had to be developed and Clive thoroughly enjoyed that work.
Clive also enjoyed his roles as a manager of Refunding incorrect or excess National Insurance contributions and as Staff Suggestion Co-ordinator, helping ideas to be developed, introducing those ideas to the National Insurance system and rewarding the individual suggestors for their ideas.
In his spare time, Clive is a keen cyclist, gardener and secretary of a local Golf Society. His main interest though is his family and friends.
Clive is the Co-ordinator of Guided Tours of The Victoria Tunnel. Tours take place each week on Thursdays at 6.30 pm; on Fridays at 10 am and 1 pm and on Saturdays at 10 am and 1 pm. To book a tour please click here
Office hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10am - 5 pm.
clive.goodwin@ouseburntrust.org.uk
Mandy Robinson, Open Doors Co-ordinator
Having worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years Mandy was delighted to take up the post as Open Doors Co-ordinator in June 2012. She has worked with national, regional and local charities developing and managing projects and implementing quality assurance systems with National Mind and Northumberland Children’s Fund. She had also been an NVQ assessor and management trainer with Project North East before becoming a self-employed coach and facilitator.
Previously a trustee with Mind in Gateshead she now volunteers for Macmillan and enjoys gardening, reading and walking her aged dog at a leisurely pace!
For more about the Open Doors programme, please click here.
Office hours: Mondays - Wednesdays, 8.30am - 4.30pm
mandy.robinson@ouseburntrust.org.uk
Charlotte Waldron, Admin Apprentice
Charlotte joined the team in September 2012. She will be providing administrative help towards the team while attending Westgate College once every two weeks to give feedback to help gain her NVQ in Business Admin.
She finished school in 2010 and has previously completed a Health and Social Care Apprenticeship gaining a NVQ Level 2 and a Business Improvement Technique Apprenticeship also gaining a NVQ Level 2 since leaving school.
In her spare time Charlotte enjoys spending time with her family, friends and her three cats: Creep, Pumba and Leroy (plus the other two at her nana's house, Toots and Jasper). She also likes reading and listening to music whilst having time to herself.
She looks forward to building a career in the Business Sector in the future.
Office hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
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