The Office Team

Here you can see who works in the LHM Office and what it is we do. If you would like to contact the office click here.

Suzie Hutchinson is the Chief Executive which basically means that she works within all the areas of the charity’s work.

She works with the support team to offer support to members on the telephone and at events. With the information team she writes a great deal of the information that you see in the newsletter and within our information packs.

She works to raise awareness of the needs of children and their families and the work of the charity at a whole range of events from speaking at schools and Women’s Institute meetings to representing the charity at government and medical meetings.

Suzie also works with Kevin and the fundraising team to highlight the need for funds to support our work, taking a lead with the corporate supporters and grant applications.

Part of her role is to lead the office team and ensure that we all follow the strategic plan agreed by the Board of Trustees.

Tina Walmsley is our very experienced Charity Secretary. Tina came to LHM at the beginning of 2008 with 21 years experience of working for the NHS.

Many of you have already spoken to Tina and have been very impressed with her friendly and helpful manner. Tina’s main role is to run the office and to be a first line of support and information for members when they ring the office. Tina will then refer families to the support team that will be able to help them the most and she will also send out information packs to help with any of the questions members have.

Deb Rahman is our Information Administrator. Deb has worked for the charity since 1999. Deb uses her great skills for design and presentation to create our newsletter and all of our information packs.

Deb is involved with the website design and the layout of any of our charity leaflets. She also works with the fundraising team to ensure that all of our requests for support look professional and exciting.

Gwen Webb is our Website and Database Administrator. Gwen joined us in 2007 to help with our database and to work with the Charity Secretary, having previously worked managing customer support and admin for an internet dating service.

Gwen showed us so much enthusiasm that we asked her to take on developing the database, which helps us with lots of our membership and fundraising work; to work with the website development team to create our new website, and now has the ongoing task of administering it.

Jon Brunskill joined the LHM team in September 2008 as the Youth Project Development Officer. At only 20 years of age, Jon is fun, friendly, and full of enthusiasm and ideas for all of the young members of the charity. In particular, he will be keen to implement some exciting new support services for the adolescents approaching the transition from childhood to adulthood.

Jon has worked with children since he began coaching an under 9s football team when he was 13 years old, and has experience working with young people from ages 0 – 22. Last year he travelled to South Africa to work in a rural village fraught with poverty, HIV/AIDS and extremely poor education standards. Jon played in the nursery and taught in the secondary school there, which matured him greatly and gave him the opportunity to organise some huge sports events. You might recognise Jon, because he has helped out at some of the activity weekends and youth forums in the past.

Emma Pelling works freelance as a Public Relations Officer. She specialises in offering PR support to charities and has been working with LHM for many years to help us raise awareness of the work that we do within any area of the media.

The SGUD team are a group of young men who create our films and have recently worked with Jon to create our Youth website.