Meet the Team
The Young Lives Foundation is a team of passionate and experienced individuals with knowledge and skills to support the success of the charity.
Our Team
The charity is led by our Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Gray, who has responsibility for managing the charity and its activities.
Stephen Gray
CEO
Stephen has spent all his professional life in the education and social care sector. Following his graduation from Kingston University in 2001 gaining a BSc Hons in Psychology and Sociology, he worked as an advocate for Kent looked after young people. Gaining a post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies with the University of Kent, he took on more senior management responsibilities and co-founded YLF in 2007.
After founding the South East Regional Independent Visitors Service Network and leading the charity in achieving successful external accreditation’s, such as Investing in Volunteers, Stephen stepped up as CEO with overall responsibility for the charity in November 2012. Since then Stephen has led the charity through a period of continuous development and improvement, managed the successful re commissioning of local authority contracts, gained new contracts and launched new services whilst ensuring the charity was able to make a difference to children and young people by delivering effective and measurable outcomes. Stephen is also an acting Trustee of the National Appropriate Adult Network.
Stephen led the charity in achieving The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest accolade a voluntary organisation can receive.
Senior Management Team
Stephen
CEO
Kristy
Advocacy & Safeguarding Manager
Neil
Operations Manager
Central Support Team
Karen
Fundraising Manager
Janine
Communications Manager
Katie
Finance Manager
Will
Volunteer Recruitment Manager
Emilie
Project Support Apprentice
The Advocacy & Rights Team
Sarah
Advocacy Coordinator
Coral
Advocate
Andrew
Advocate
Dianne
Advocate
David
Advocate
Christine
Advocate
Kate
Advocate
Lucy
Appropriate & Accompanying Adult Coordinator
John
Participation Apprentice
Mentoring & Befriending Team
Richard
Mentoring Coordinator
Fran
Mentoring Coordinator
Lisa
Mentoring Coordinator
Matthew
Mentoring Coordinator
Amber
Mentoring Coordinator
Shelley
Mentoring & Befriending Coordinator
Kelly
Mentoring Coordinator
Sandra
Mentoring Coordinator
Frank
Befriending Coordinator
Sonia
Sessional Mentor
Positive Activities Team
Lucy
Positive Activities Coordinator
Sandro
Positive Activities Officer
Rebecca
Activities Support Worker
Chloe
Activities Support Worker
Kay
Activities Support Worker
Simon
Activities Support Worker
Denise
Activities Support Worker
Siobhan
Activities Support Worker
Equality & Diversity
The Young Lives Foundation (YLF) is fully committed to promoting equality of opportunity and valuing diversity, both as an employer and as a provider of services for others. YLF recognises and accepts the moral and legal obligations to treat everyone equally and fairly and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the charity does not unlawfully discriminate against anyone on the grounds of a Protected Characteristic – gender, pregnancy, age, disability, marital status, race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, caste, political or religious beliefs.
What Next?
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Our Supporters
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