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 in her present role at Islington Play Association since July 2014. Prior to this she worked with IPA as a Project Manager on the ‘Finding Nature Through...
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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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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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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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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 and premises management of Paradise Park Children’s Centre.
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Ruqayyah Lamara
Ruqayyah joined as Receptionist of Paradise Park in 2018
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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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Pauline Williams
Pauline joined the Paradise Park team in March 2020. She has worked in Islington’s Early Years sector for over 15 years. She is qualifIed in Level 3 Early Years.
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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 her current role as Deputy Nursery Manager. She feels that her...
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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. She is...
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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...
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Rina Begum
Rina is currently an Early Years Worker in the big 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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Amo Mahadi
Amo is a Early Years Key Worker in the Big Room at our Nursery.
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Emily Hollis
Meet Emily, one of our Early Years Key Workers in the Big Room at Paradise Park Nursery.
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Tasnia Ahmed
After her placement at Paradise Park Nursery, Tasnia has become one of our Early Years Key Workers in the Big Room.
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Natasha Obeid
Tash is one of our Early Years Key Workers of the Big Room at Paradise Park Nursery.
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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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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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