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Dan Willis
Claire Sirmulis
Claire is a Team Leader for our Counselling and Active Monitoring services. Claire became involved with Dorset Mind in March 2018 in a variety of roles. These included Coordinator for…
Alan Badenhorst
My name is Alan and I volunteer as a Befriender for Dorset Mind - I also volunteer for some of the events and fundraisers where possible. I started volunteering because…
Chris Tshuma
Sarah Hopkins
Craig Mathie
Karen Butcher
Karen is Dorset Mind's Finance Assistant and is responsible for bookkeeping, bank reconciliations and other exciting and essential tasks! Karen comes from a long background in charities and ran a…
Cathy Crammer
Cathy is one of our Active Monitoring Practitioners. She joined us in January 2020 and helps facilitate our Active Monitoring programme that runs in partnership with Shore Medical. Cathy is…
Talya Disagciyan
Talya is one of our Active Monitoring Practitioners. She joined us in December 2019 and helps facilitate our Active Monitoring programme that runs in partnership with Shore Medical. Talya is…
Craig Eldridge
Maddie Crawford
Ross Duncan
Jim Phillips
Jim is the Team Leader for our Active Monitoring and Counselling programme. Passionate about evidence-based medicine, Jim spent most of his career taking short contract in NHS services that needed…
Sharon Best
Sharon is the GAP Project Coordinator. Sharon has a background in Public Health & Wellbeing. She has a unique skill set developed over the past twenty years working with various…
Ruth Morgan
Ruth is an Adult Befriender with Dorset Mind. She lives in rural North Dorset with her family and is training to become a Psychotherapist. Ruth says, “I love my befreinding role…
Gabriella Cox
Gabriella is our Children and Young People Services Coordinator. She supports our Children and Young People programmes, including Education in Mind and our Young Ambassadors. Throughout her career, Gabriella has…
Laura Coombes
Laura is our Volunteer Team Leader which is a newly introduced role. She will be working closely with 3 teams within the Volunteering department to develop and grow these services…
Catherine Hills
Catherine is Dorset Mind's HR Assistant and she's involved in the whole employee life cycle with the charity. She has previously worked in the HR Department of a large international…
Nicole McCormack
Nicole is the Adult Services Manager for Dorset Mind, overseeing Adult Befriending in East Dorset, Wellbeing and Activity Groups, Mind Blue Light Counselling and the Restored eating disorder programme. Nicole…
Nicola Whitehead
Nicola is the Mental Health, Sport and Physical Activity Project Manager and Volunteer Coordinator for Dorset Mind. She has always been interested in sport and physical activity and is immensely…
Alexis Stevens
Alexis is Dorset Mind’s Training Manager. She delivers our Training strategy and has overseen our training progress from providing support to just three companies, to over thirty companies in less…
Laurence Mynor-Wallis
Laurence is a Consultant Psychiatrist working in Poole. He specialises in adult mental health. He has a particular interest in psychological treatments for common mental health disorders and has carried…
Anna Windett
Anna has seen close friends and family suffer with mental health issues and so when she took a career break to raise a family in 2015 it seemed the perfect…
Robert Rutherford
Robert became a Trustee for Dorset Mind as he wanted to ‘give something back’ to his home county, Dorset. Robert understands the impact that mental health has on people's personal…
Ian Prankerd
Ian has been involved with Dorset Mind for ten years, first as service user, then as Treasurer and Acting Group Co-Ordinator. Ian is currently a Trustee and Part-time Administrator -…
Dr Ros Maycock
Dr Ros Maycock is a retired GP that previously working in Parkstone, Poole. The practice had had only lady GP’s when she joined in 1983 which was very unusual. Ros…
Claire Wait
Claire is a chartered accountant working locally in Poole as an accounts and audit manager, she specialises in ‘not-for-profits' and has over 10 years’ experience in charities and other not-for-profit…
Rob Griffith
Rob has facilitated Dorset Mind's Active in Mind support group for over 5 years. This has been a very rewarding time for him supporting members of the group to engage…
Tilini Subasinghe
Tilini is our Adult Services Project Team Leader. She helps run our adult services that include talking and activity groups. Tilini has always been interested in learning about the brain…
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Dorset Mind is an organisation that comprises a team of enthusiastic, driven people who are passionate about removing the stigma around mental health and ensuring people have access to appropriate support in their time of need.
We are responsible to our Board of Trustees and Chair who guide the charity and set its governance, and our CEO and Management team help deliver our strategy.Our Patron, Ambassadors and army of volunteers are crucial to helping us support local people, we simply can’t do without them. To become a valued member of our charity, click the button below to view our paid vacancies,
or follow this link to find out how you could volunteer with us.
