Dan Rogers
Chief Executive Officer
Dan has worked in strategy, operations management and business development, throughout a career which has spanned roles in publishing, research, and consultancy. He brings experience of engaging industry, government, and grant funding clients, in order to scale businesses and deliver social impact. Dan joined Public Voice from Connected Places Catapult, a government-backed, non-profit innovation agency. At Connected Places Catapult, he led a team responsible for developing bids and proposals for people-centred innovation projects – looking at ways to improve places for social, economic and environmental benefits.
Gary De Ferry
Associate Director — Regeneration
Gary worked for over 30 years in social housing, starting as a trainee and holding senior and executive posts in local government, the voluntary and private sectors. Since leaving his last post as the Chief Executive of a successful community based housing association, he has worked as a senior consultant specialising in resident involvement in housing and regeneration. Gary also holds senior voluntary posts with two charities.
Lva Simms
Office Manager
Lva is responsible for day-to-day office management, healthand safety, HR, recruitment, policies and procedures, and provides the CEO and Board with administration and governance support. Lva is an Associate of CIPD, with over 26 years business administration experience and in particular within HR for the last 14 years. Lva has worked across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Previous roles have included Director of HR & Quality (at HAIL) and Co-ordinator of Administration (at The North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust).
Eamonn England
Associate Communications Manager
Eamonn is responsible for all our communications and marketing activities, from our communications strategy, media relationships and company brand/project brands, through to project planning, business development, our website, social networks, and all our publicity materials. He is a highly experienced business, communications and marketing professional with a wide range of experience in both the public and private sectors. He has spent time working in local government, education, the voluntary and community sector, and as a consultant within the creative industries.
Polly Frayne
Programme Manager
Polly manages our Reach and Connect service and our Social Prescribing Link Worker team, having previously worked as a Community Connector based with Mind in Haringey. Before joining Reach and Connect Polly worked with Disability Support for students and as a Dementia Adviser.
Mary Blake
Volunteer Coordinator
Mary supports Public Voice’s team of volunteers working across all projects. Previous roles were with Groundwork London’s volunteer Energy Champions programme, Energise London and Family Action. Earlier work was in waste prevention with Enfield Council and environmental campaigning for Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. Mary also works part-time for the Muswell Hill Sustainability Group and volunteers for a health charity helpline.
Ashley Grey
Community Connector
Ashley is a Community Connector with our Reach and Connect project, a service for over 50s in Haringey. Ashley has an arts background and has spent the past 40 years working in community development. She has held senior management posts in local government, the education sector and several arts and disability charities. Her interests include local history, and in 2012 she formed a Community Benefit Society to save a heritage pub, The Antwerp Arms, which is the first Community Pub in North London.
Tanya Murat
Engagement and Communications Officer
Tanya supports our Healthwatch Haringey team with engagement and communications activities, working with Patient Participation Groups and GP practices, recruiting, training and supporting patient representatives in Haringey, and providing content for our website, newsletter and social media. She has previously worked in libraries, town planning and community development and has years of experience engaging with communities experiencing exclusion and disadvantage.
Our Board
Ian Adams
Chair
Ian has substantial board governance, policy and communications experience, working closely with national and local policymakers to create a fairer society to promote social justice. Ian has been employed by NHS Resolution, the legal arm of the NHS, since 2016, where today he is Director of Policy, Strategy and Communications, championing the involvement of patients and frontline staff in improving patient safety. Previous roles include Director of Communications and Patient and Public Engagement for NHS North West London Clinical Commissioning Groups. Ian is passionate about protecting human rights through his other trustee roles at Amnesty International UK, Single Homeless Project, and Age UK Westminster. He was also an elected councillor at Westminster City Council between 2002 and 2022.
Laura Guest
Laura is a Masters qualified former Chief Executive who has worked across complex organisations from NHS commissioning and hospital Trusts to the Department of Health and also in the commercial sector, within London and nationally. Her experience includes leveraging in-depth commissioning expertise and strategic insights into legislative and government health and social policy trends to innovate solutions. She has expertise in constructing and validating high-level business cases that source and attract additional external funding; and creating long-term strategic relationships based on trust with partners and policy-makers to drive collaboration and growth. Laura is a regular speaker at national conferences and has collaborated on various publications.