Em Ekong, Director, Urban Inclusion Community Ltd, The FEAT Project

Em has worked as a business advisor for a number of agencies over the past 10 years, particularly in regeneration areas such as Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Hackney.

She lectured at South Bank University for three years on a Business Start-Ups Programme. In recent years her experience has involved project management for regeneration agencies including setting up and developing a successful regeneration programme “Women’s Enterprise”. Her last key role was as Business Services Manager at a local enterprise agency.

Supriya Horn, Head of Sustainability and Development, WRC

Supriya horn is Head of Sustainability and Development at the Women’s Resource Centre where she supports women’s organisations in becoming more financially sustainable. Before that she was a fundraising training consultant at the Directory of Social Change. She is an experienced trainer and fundraiser having worked in the community and voluntary sector in England, Germany and Asia for the past 10 years largely with grassroots international development organisations.

Pippa Judd, Counselling Services Manager, BHT Threshold

Pippa is the Counselling Services Manager at Threshold BHT. Threshold is a Women’s Mental Health Project which was first founded 21 years ago to provide an accessible service to address women’s mental health needs, including crèche provision. We recognise the socio and economic impact on women’s mental and emotional well being. Last year in response to a funding crisis Threshold became a project of BHT, a larger organisation, to ensure our survival for at least one more year. We continue to struggle to survive in the provision of the vital services which we offer.

Pippa has been working at Threshold for almost 5 years. Previously she worked at Lambeth PCT where she set up an addiction service for pregnant women and new mothers including providing training for midwives and health visitors. She has been working in the women’s sector for 8 years. As part of her current role she works in partnership with other organisations providing supervision for the psychiatric team on the women only ward in the local psychiatric hospital and for a midwifery project called ‘birth stories’, which offers women the opportunity to get support where they have had a traumatic birth which has impacted on their mental and emotional well being. She has also sat on the Women’s Resource Centre Policy Forum representing women’s mental health.

Pippa has a BA Degree in Politics from Sussex University. She also has Diploma in Integrative Counselling and an Advanced Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapeutic Counselling from CSCT, London.