Tim Coomb
Finance Consultant

Tim has worked for over 15 years in a senior capacity with small and medium-sized charities and not-for-profit organisations.

Tim is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and has recently completed a postgraduate certificate in the Social Sciences.

Maria Harris
Community Development Manager

Maria Harris is our Community Spaces and Development Manager. Over the last year Maria has been working towards building up the reputation of The Greenside Community Centre to be well known and appreciated as a valuable community hub. Maria's vision is to further develop Vital Regeneration's community development function and bring in exciting and innovative ideas. Maria hopes to involve local organisations and residents in delivering activities as well as taking part themselves.

Maria joined in 2004 where she started out as the Project Administrator for our firststep.com learning centre on the Lisson Green Estate.

Maria's educational background is in Ecology and she still has a keen interest in environmental issues which she hopes to bring to The Greenside Community Centre by instilling a green ethos to the team at the centre. Previously Maria has worked for various central government departments delivering ICT projects. The move to regeneration was a strategic career step as she wanted to work in an environment that was ultimately more rewarding.

Marie Monaghan
Sustainability Programme Manager

Marie is responsible for the delivery of environmental & sustainability projects at Vital Regeneration.

Get on the Greenside is a neighbourhood recycling project working on high density social housing estates in North Westminster to raise awareness of and increase participation in recycling.

Marie is also responsible for the development and delivery of a community composting project collecting and composting food waste from residents living on Church St Estate in North Westminster. She works with local schools educating young people about recycling and climate change and also with local community groups to organise activities focusing on the environment. She is currently developing a broader community environmental awareness programme focusing on energy, local transport and local food as well as recycling.

Marie represents Vital Regeneration on the Queens Park Neighbourhood Management Board which is responsible for the coordination of neighbourhood renewal activities and local services to deliver the Queens Park Neighbourhood Plan 2008-2012. She also sits on Westminster’s Liveability Network which aims to provide leadership on environmental issues and to oversee the delivery of Local Area Agreement outcomes related to the environment in Westminster. Marie joined Vital Regeneration in February 2006 as Neighbourhood Recycling Officer. Prior to this she spent a year working for a marine conservation company in Belize in Central America carrying out surveys on the coral reef. Marie holds a BSc (Hons) in Biology from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and an MSc Environmental Science from Trinity College Dublin.

Sam Rowley
Education Project Manager

Before working with Vital Regeneration, Sam lived and worked in Mexico as a project manager for a charity he founded that supplies extra curricular activities to marginalised communities in Mexico City. He has also worked in the Dominican Republic helping to provide education opportunities in rural communities.

Sam completed his PGCE in primary education from Birmingham University in 2002 and is due to finish his MSc in Human Resource Management from Manchester University in September 2008.

Jenny Irish
FreqOUT!Project Manager

Jenny heads up the FreqOUT! project at Vital Regeneration. Jenny is keen to build on previous project successes and take FreqOUT! forward to engage young people through cutting edge technologies and the arts.

Jenny has a background in Communication Design and worked as an installation artist to engage audiences through interactive experiences. Her work has been exhibited nationally and recently she has shown work in China following an arts residency she completed in Beijing in 2006. Jenny also teaches at Degree level and has a Masters in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins with distinction.

Fiona Black
Vital Vocations Project Manager

Fiona joined Vital in April 2008 as Project Manager for the v-sponsored youth-led career service, in which she looks forward to promoting choice and social awareness with young people and supporting them to make informed choices and decisions.

Fiona’s own career has included roles as a Fundraising Consultant, Secondary Art and Design Teacher, Freelance Lead Artist and Facilitator as well as Contemporary Textile and Embroidery Designer. She is dedicated to community development and life-long learning.

Riad Huballah
Business Development Associate

Riad previously worked as Employer Engagement Manager for the Vital Advice team, moving to Business Development Associate in 2007. His experience of corporate social responsibility objectives and local labour marker projects provide a broad-ranging knowledge base for his business development work.

Riad holds an MSc in Entrepreneurship, Science & Technology. Before joining Vital Regeneration, he worked at the Nottingham Science & Technology Park and PERA within Business Development and Analysts roles.

Judith McKee
Learning & Employment Advisor - H.E.L.P.

Judith joined VR in Feb 2008. Prior to this she worked as an advisor for the Citizens Advice Bureau and freelanced as a legal clerk.

She has a BA (Joint Honours) English and History from the University of Southampton and a Masters in Law from the University of London with distinction. She enjoys working with clients and seeing their lives and well-being transformed as a result.

Daniel Williams
Learning & Employment Advisor - Vital Advice

Dan works in the Vital Advice team as a Learning and Employment Advisor providing information, advice and guidance to young people, particularly focusing on apprenticeships.

Dan first joined Vital Regeneration in April 2007 as an intern two days a week on the Studio + project where he worked as a support tutor on the London Dreaming course and assisted the project manager with the planning and running of Studio+.

Prior to this role Dan worked for The British Journal of Sociology and has also interned at The Young Foundation. He has a BA (Hons) in Sociology from Leeds University and is currently working towards an NVQ Level 3 in Advice and Guidance.

Lorraine Willis
Programme Officer

Lorraine is the Programme Officer for Vital Regeneration’s Education team. Her role involves monitoring, data analysis and supporting the strategic planning for Vital Regeneration’s education, music and media projects. This includes Firststep.com, Queens Park New Media Centre, Studio + and FreqOUT!

Lorraine joined Vital Regeneration in February 2006 as the Project Administrator for Firststep.com at the Greenside Community Centre. Prior to this she worked in advertising post production and market research. She has a BA (Hons) Information and Media Studies from Brighton University.

Justine Davy
Resourcing Coordinator

Having studied Marketing and PR in 2005-06, Justine took on a Voluntary role with Vital Regeneration to gain further experience. Justine then worked as PA to the Chief Executive before moving to the role of Resourcing Coordinator earlier this year.

Justine has a background in administration, over 10 years of office experience and previously worked for a Child and Youth Market Research Company before joining Vital Regeneration.

Jessica Pigg
Marketing & Communications Officer

Jessica has a background in arts, community work and journalism. With an educational background in arts, music and museum studies, she has previously worked as community music teacher; web developer; as Arts & Heritage Development Officer in rural Leicestershire; and most recently as Communications Officer at Somerset House.

Jessica has been involved in the community all her life, first as a beneficiary of community arts groups, and later as a provider of arts-based projects and activities. She is excited to be working for Vital in her dual role of Marketing & Communications Officer, and coordinator of Connect with IT - our new inter-generational IT project.

Dominic Papineau
Facilities Coordinator

Dominic joined Vital Regeneration as a business development intern in January 2006. This allowed him to gain experience and learn about VR’s different projects. He started as the Facilities Coordinator of the Greenside Community Centre in June 2007. His favourite aspect of the job is that he gets to meet and work with such a wide variety of people from the local community.

Hana Osman
Learning Administrator

Hana has recently returned from two years in Nicaragua where she worked as Project Co-ordinator for a social education and conservation project, which aimed to educate local communities in their surrounding biodiversity and encourage sustainable development.

Growing up in rural parts of Africa, often surrounded by severe poverty, Hana always envisaged herself working for a charity whose aims were to improve lives through education and empowerment, which is how she came to work for Vital Regeneration.

Through working as Learning Administrator Hana hopes to develop her passion for working in the development and educational sectors whilst gaining vital knowledge and skills.

Hana completed her Bachelor’s degree in 2005 and is hoping to start studying for a MSC in the next few years.

Thameda Begum
Apprentice Administrator