Meet the team
Made up of incredible staff from across the UK, our team is passionate about harnessing creativity to support children, young people and adults to build healthy relationships.
Abby Hunter
Abby supports the Development Team in fundraising from trusts, foundations and statutory sources. Prior to Tender, Abby completed…
Angharad Turner-Fielder
Angharad manages Tender North, delivering and coordinating projects and leading Tender’s growth across the whole region.
Anna Rattray
Anna leads on fundraising from trusts, foundations and statutory sources.
Daisy Douglas
Daisy manages all Tender’s programmes in the West of England, with projects throughout Bath, Bristol and wider Somerset.
Dorota Small
Dorota specialises in charities’ accounts and is one of Tender’s longest-serving team members, beginning on just half a day a week in 2005, first as a freelancer and then as a full-time employee since 2010.
Francesca Lanzarotti
Francesca is the Corporate Partnerships Officer in the Development team. Previously, she completed an MSc in Women’s Health at UCL.
Iona Carruthers
Iona is a Project Coordinator for Tender’s RE:SET team. She supports with the delivery and coordination of the programme across London schools.
Isadora Nicastro
Isadora is your go-to person for all things social media, website updates, media enquiries, and promoting Tender’s work.
Jen Walton
Jen joined Tender in Autumn 2022 and is now Programme Manager for London and the South East.
Kate Lexén
Kate leads all Tender services and programmes as part of our senior leadership team.
Kimono McDonald D’Souza
Kim works as a Project Coordinator for Tender’s London and South East Team.
Laura Watson
Laura is the Tender RE:SET Mentor for Croydon. She facilitates workshops with children and young people, school staff…
Lauren Greville
Lauren joined Tender in 2024 as part-time Projects Coordinator for Adult Services, providing administrative support for training projects…
Luisa Bennett
Luisa joined Tender in 2023 as part-time Projects Coordinator for Tender North.
Maddi Olivier
Maddi oversees Tender’s Adult Services team, delivering projects to adults with safeguarding responsibility to increase awareness and improve professional response to domestic abuse, sexual violence and gender-based violence overall.
Maddie Holderness
Maddie works in our London and South East team developing projects for young people across the region.
Magdalene Mill
Magdalene joined Tender in September 2023 as the RE:SET Programme Manager, overseeing Tender’s whole school approach to relationship education.
Michelle Thompson
Michelle manages and delivers Tender projects in schools and youth settings across Norfolk.
Ruth Scott
Ruth supports and delivers training to adults with safeguarding responsibilities, including teachers, local authority workers and third-sector volunteers.
Sarah Carpenter
Sarah recently joined Tender as the Head of Curriculum and Growth, where she is responsible for overseeing the…
Sola Adegbite
Sola coordinates specialist provision projects and programmes in the London and South East team.
Susie McDonald
Susie has been developing innovative programmes with Tender since its inception, becoming CEO in 2010.
Trupti Reddy
Trupti works closely with the CEO and management team to turn Tender’s strategic objectives into effective delivery.
Laura Sanford
Laura is a senior teacher at a North London co-educational state school where she is an English teacher and designated safeguarding lead.
Matthew Layton
Matthew was the Global Managing Partner of leading international law firm Clifford Chance from 2014-2022 having spent nearly 40 years with the firm.
Michaela Chamberlain
Michaela is a chartered accountant and is Assistant Director of Finance at UK charity Shelter.
Rory Conwell
Rory has a business background. He was a founder-director and CEO of Wilmington Group plc, launched on the LSE in 1995, a leading, international provider of professional information and training.