Anita Grant
Anita has worked in the charity sector for 30 years specifically working for children’ charities and has been proud to be at IPA since 2006. She previously ran a Sure...
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Staff
Meet some of our amazing team at Islington Play Association! If you would like to find out more about working here, check out our Jobs page.
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Biniam Ghebreyesus
Biniam has been working at Islington Play Association since August 2012.
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Wendy Jeeves
Wendy has worked with Islington adventure playgrounds since 1994, before joining Islington Play Association as a Treehouse Project Worker in 2009. As part of the ‘Treehouses for Islington’ project she...
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Lucy Benson
Lucy has been the Adventure Playground Manager at Islington Play Association since July 2014. Prior to this she worked with the charity as a Project Worker on the ‘Finding Nature...
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Brunilda Ibraj
Bruna first joined Islington Play Association as a volunteer. She was appointed to the role of Finance Officer in August 2009.
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Lloyd Sherwood
Lloyd has been working as a Finance Officer with Islington Play Association for 2.5 years.
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Adventure Playground Staff
Kerry O’Connor
Kerry is currently Playground Coordinator of Lumpy Hill Adventure Playground.
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Annie Cook
Annie first worked with Islington Play Association managing a small playground at Priory heights whilst also working as a Playwork Assessor. She found herself spending a lot of time in...
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Martyn Cotrel
Martyn joined Islington Play Association in November 2017 as a Playground Coordinator at Toffee Park Adventure Playground.
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Francesca Silvester
Francesca joined Islington Play Association as a Play and Learning Manager at Timbuktu Adventure Playground in June 2018, previously working in management within the early years sector. She has set...
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Marcia Henry
Marcia is currently a Play and Learning Deputy at Timbuktu Adventure Playground, having joined Islington Play Association in June 2018.
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Mark Challis
Mark is currently a Deputy Playworker at Timbuktu Adventure Playground.
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Gilmar Cruz Silva
Gilmar is Deputy Playworker at Lumpy Hill Adventure Playground, having worked at Crumbles Castle Adventure Playground since 2010.
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Shantel Powell
Shantel Powell is currently a Deputy Playworker at Toffee Park Adventure Playground. She first joined Islington Play Association as a Sessional Playworker in March 2016 before being promoted to her...
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Kwame Ryan
Kwame is currently a Deputy Playworker at Toffee Park Adventure Playground. He first joined Islington Play Association as a Sessional Playworker in July 2017 before being promoted to his current...
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Chelsea Sabine
Chelsea joined Islington Play Association as Deputy Playworker at Crumbles Castle Adventure Playground in June 2018.
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Simmone Walker
Simmone joined Islington Play Association as Deputy Playworker at Lumpy Hill Adventure Playground in February 2016.
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Paradise Park Childrens Centre Staff
Sarah Ghartey
Sarah has worked at Islington Play Association since April 2007. She is currently responsible for centre outreach, premises management and the reception.
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Ruqayyah Lamara
Ruqayyah recently joined the Paradise Park Children’s Centre team and will be keeping you up to date on all our social media platforms!
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Lisa Wales
Lisa has been working in the cafe at Islington Play Association’s Paradise Park Children’s Centre since 2011.
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Fataha Khanom
Fataha joined IPA in 2012 working as bank staff across Paradise Park Children’s Centre’s nursery and creche. As well as continuing this work, Fataha has worked at the cafe at Paradise...
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Jermaine Payne
Jermaine is Nursery Manager at Paradise Park Children’s Centre nursery, having previously been Deputy Early Years Manager.
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Naz Rahman
Nazifa (Naz) has been working at Islington Play Association for about 8 years. She started off as a student and has worked her way up since. She has always had...
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Zhane Philip
Zhane recently became an Early Years Worker at Paradise Park Children’s Centre after previously working on a sessional basis.
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Rina Begum
Rina is currently an Early Years Worker in the baby room at our nursery in Paradise Park Children’s Centre. Prior to this, she was an Early Years Support Worker with...
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Tracey Hollis
Tracey has worked at Islington Play Association since September 2009. Before working for IPA she spent several years working at other nurseries and working as a registered childminder.
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Amber James
Amber is relatively new to the Islington Play Association team and began her adventure with Paradise Park Children’s Centre in August 2017. She joined shortly after graduating from The University...
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Amo Mahadi
Amo is a key worker in our nursery at Paradise Park Children’s Centre.
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Tamsin O’Connor
Tamsin started working for Islington Play Association in September 2017 as a Sessional Playworker, quickly moving up to an Early Years Support Worker and then promoted to Early Years Worker...
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Sarah Sheridan
Sarah joined Islington Play Association as an Early Years Worker at Paradise Park Children’s Centre in July 2018.
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Cinzia Tassinari
Cinzia has being working at Paradise Park Children’s Centre since 2012, working her way up from Sessional Playworker to Early Years Support Worker before being promoted to her current role...
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Tamar Lewis
Tamar Lewis is now working as an Early Years Worker and has been working at Islington Play Association since 2014.
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Board
Melea Mapes
Melea’s expertise in governance, communications and fundraising has facilitated organisational growth and development in both charitable and commercial roles. She is passionate about the protection of childhood and the value...
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James Sinclair Taylor
James has been involved in playgrounds for many years having started being involved in the creation of the first adventure playground in Leicester while at University. James is a trustee...
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Manisha Kaur
Manisha has been a voluntary Trustee and Treasurer of IPA since September 2016. She works as a full-time banking consultant in a professional services firm in London. Originally from India, she...
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Jane Deighton
Jane joined the Board from the IPA heritage project steering committee. The heritage project worked with children and young people, parents and workers of IPA in the last 40...
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Laura John
Laura joined Islington Play Association as a Trustee in November 2015.
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Julie Lowe
Julie currently works as a manager in the NHS, working in a strategic planning role. She has spent most of the last 25 years running hospitals in different parts of...
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Eleanor Nichol
Eleanor is currently the Vice Chair at Islington Play Association. She is an experienced campaigner and investigator with a track-record in building teams to achieve change. As Deputy Campaigns Director at...
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Adeep Sethi
Adeep joined IPA as a Trustee in 2017 and has 10 years of experience working in the Finance industry in London. He is a passionate supporter of children’s charities in the UK...
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Richard Stephens
Richard has been volunteering with children’s charities for the past 6 years, before joining the IPA board in September 2017. He works for an asset manager in London and received...
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