Our people

I support young carers aged 8-19 who have a parent or family member that is using drugs or alcohol. I’m motivated by the young people I work with. They are incredibly brave and resilient, they inspire me everyday and encourage me to try and reach more young people who need support. Working for The Children’s Society empowers me to feel that change can happen for children.   

I liaise with major donors to secure income for the charity. I take donors on a journey to show the impact their gifts have on the children and young people we serve. Hope to me, means a state of mind that acts as an enabler to believe better times will come, and if I keep that state of mind, it will permeate into every facet of the work I do. Instilling that hope in a child or a young person is one of the most valuable things anyone can ever hope to achieve.

I’ve been with The Children’s Society for 17 years now and I enjoy working here as much now as I did when I first joined. I feel lucky to work in an amazing retail team who care about making as much money as possible in order to make a difference to the lives of the young people we support. Hope is important. However difficult things get, if there is hope, there is always something to be positive about. 

Jamie serves as the CEO of The Gate, one of the UK's top creative communications agencies. In addition to his leadership role, he is an active member of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), where he sits on the council, chairs the membership committee, and holds the position of honorary secretary.

I was drawn to The Children’s Society primarily because of the mission to reverse the decline in childrens’ wellbeing. I also found the way it goes about achieving the mission hugely inspiring, not just the urgency and uncompromising nature of its approach but also the values of being brave, ambitious, trusted and supportive.

Following a professional career in biotechnology, management consulting and healthcare investment banking, Alyson has 20 years of non-executive board experience on major organisations in the NHS, higher education and financial regulation, and as a trustee of various health charities.

 ‘I was attracted to join The Children’s Society both by the urgency of its mission and the inspiring values that drive its work. Those values of bravery, ambition, support and trust encapsulate what is required to meet the challenge of reversing the decline in childrens’ welfare and have built a truly impressive, passionate organisation’ 

In essence hope is the belief that good things will happen , it is the uncompromising mission of The Children's Society to make good things happen for all young people in our society. The transformative power of effective intervention and support to the lives of young people is clear. The Children's Society puts the interests and the voices of young people at the heart of everything it does, and the impact of work delivered with that philosophy is extraordinary.

I am passionate about creating a better society for everyone, and that starts with children and young people. Every child should have the chance to feel safe, valued and hopeful about their future. That belief is what motivates me in my role at The Children’s Society to help grow the support, awareness and income needed to make lasting change possible.

When we connect people – colleagues, supporters, volunteers, partners and communities – in a shared purpose to stand alongside young people, we can create extraordinary impact. 

I feel privileged to be part of an organisation with such ambition for children and young people. Together, we can build stronger support, greater opportunity and a society where every young person can thrive.

As a trustee I hope to introduce new issues that they may not have considered and share my story, so they understand the weight that their decisions hold.

And to me, hope means still having a future despite the adversities that I have witnessed. Hope is a reason to wake up and fight my demons

Will is a global marketing leader with over a decade of experience working with some of the world’s most ambitious brands including Amazon, Unilever, The United Nations, Dell Technologies, and the United States Government.  Currently working with WPP, the world’s largest advertising company, his work spans across the full range of marketing capabilities including Creative & Branding, Paid and Earned Media, Social & Influencer, and Production & Marketing Technology.

The team at The Children’s Society are some of the most caring, thoughtful, and ambitious leaders I’ve come across in the charity space. Their ambition to end the decline in childrens’ wellbeing is not only timely, but necessary.

To quote a former boss, “Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it.” That is precisely what drives TCS – to brave difficulty and setback in a journey that arcs toward justice.