Marcella has been working with young people for over 15 years within a variety of settings - centre-based, detached and specialised youth work. She joined London Youth 5 years ago as a freelance trainer delivering a range of courses such as management committee training, youth forum training and Level One Foundation in Youth Work and Level Two Certificate in Youth Work.

Robert runs a Freelance Training and Consultancy service – to a range of services working with young people, and a private psychotherapy practice. Since July 1999 he has been external group supervisor for Hackney Off Centre, is a school’s counsellor supervisor, a trainer of personal advisors, and is a non-line managerial supervisor of PA’s. His recent training and consultancy contracts have been wide and varied.

Alan is Treasurer and non-executive Director for Hope UK. He is a trained teacher who has retired from paid employment and as a Hope UK Voluntary Associate Educator is teaching drugs education as part of the Citizenship curriculum in secondary schools in Redhill and Reigate, Surrey. As a Voluntary Associate Educator with Oasis/ACET Alan teaches sex and relationship (SRE) lessons in Secondary Schools. He also represents Hope UK on the Local Strategic Partnership, Community Safety Task group, in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead, Surrey.

John has worked with young people for over 10 years, bringing experience from centre based, detached projects and specialised youth work to the team. John has varied experience on delivering life skills training for young people including sexual health, contraception, education and numeracy & budgeting. Management committee, Peer Leadership and Part-Time youth work are courses John has also delivered.

Albert has been a Youth Worker for 20 years, progressing to an assistant Youth Worker in 1984. He then became a Senior Youth Worker in 1989, responsible for programme development, training and all aspects of business management and became a Club Manager in 1998. He has also been operating as a trainer since 1990, involved in writing, developing and delivering courses.

Tracie has been a youth worker and trainer for 20 years having spent most of that time in face-to-face youth work and education. She has an MA in youth and community studies and has recently completed a Diploma in counselling. Tracie is Director of Operations at London Youth.

Fran has been training adults and young people for the past 10 years and is an experienced youth worker. She trained in Conflict Resolution with LEAP; ran the LEAP Youth Theatre; co-designed and co-facilitated the original ‘Quarrel Shop’ six-week peer mediation course for young people and has trained young offenders at HMP Feltham YOI. She has worked as a generic youth worker for Camden and also specialised in Youth Arts work for Islington and Camden. While teaching Drama and Theatre at FE, she delivered ‘Dealing with Difficult Behaviour’ for staff at Harrow College and more recently, Conflict Resolution training for staff at the Hounslow Youth Service.

Ten years ago Youth Action UK became the first voluntary youth project in the country to contract with a Local Authority to provide youth services, they remain a leader in the field, continually looking for new and imaginative ways to deliver services to young people. The organisation has at its heart a commitment to listen to young people and although much has changed since they started in 1984 that promise has remained firm and they continue to be influenced by the young people with whom they work.

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