Staff and associates

Dominic Williamson, Chief Executive

Dominic was Director of Policy, Practice and Campaigns at Homeless Link for four and a half years before joining the Revolving Doors Agency and before that held positions with Providence Row Housing Association, Shelter, St Mungos, National Homeless Alliance and as a human rights observer in Guatemala. He has a special interest in services for people with complex needs and, prior to joining Homeless Link, spent three years as manager of PRHA's Hackney Road Project, a hostel for men and women with high support needs around drug and alcohol use. In 2008 he worked on secondment at Communities and Local Government, advising on the national strategy to tackle rough sleeping. He also has a special interest in service user engagement and served as a board member and Chair of Groundswell.

Catherine Hennessy, Director of Development and Partnerships

Catherine has 15 years experience in working with a range of socially excluded groups. She is a qualified social worker, nurse and a former Associate on homelessness for NIMHE and CSIP. Catherine worked on a number of support projects for vulnerable people including young people and people with mental health problems in London. She is the former Training Manager for an NHS Trust, with extensive experience in the design and delivery of modular training programmes. Catherine has an MA in Consultation and the Organisation from The Tavistock Centre.

Amarjit Kaur, Director of Service User Involvement

Amarjit has over 15 years' experience of working in the voluntary sector and for the last eight years has specialised in service user involvement. Before joining Revolving Doors she was head of involvement at Breast Cancer Care, where she developed and ran a user involvement panel with 650 members. Previous to that she was chief executive of Groundswell , the UK’s leading service user involvement and self-help organisation working in the field of homelessness. Amarjit has also worked for the Citizens Advice Service, including managing a prison based advice service and a project to resettle victims of miscarriages of justice. Amarjit has personal experience of using homelessness and mental health services.

Marty Perrett, Office Administrator

Marty is the Office Administrator at Revolving Doors Agency, providing day-to-day central office services, IT support and admin support for the staff and senior team. Before RDA, Marty worked in various customer service and office administrator roles gaining valuable experience to enable him to help maintain the smooth running of the office.

Anna Page, Policy Manager

Anna Page joined Revolving Doors in June 2007 and has worked in both the Partnership & Development and Policy teams. She worked closely on RDA’s National Development Programme, liaising with regional associates and stakeholders on projects across the country. Following a secondment to the Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office in 2009-10, Anna now works in Revolving Doors’ policy team. She has previously worked in a number of charitable organisations including Homeless Link.

Sarah Anderson, Senior Development and Research Officer

Sarah started at Revolving Doors in January 2010, and works with Catherine in the Partnerships and Development team. She is currently working on the analysis phase of the Big Diversion Project. Previously, she worked for two years as a prison housing caseworker with St Giles Trust before leaving to do a Masters in Criminal Justice Policy at the LSE. Additionally she completed a brief stint in a County Council Policy Unit gaining valuable insights into partnership arrangements and the scrutiny of local community safety measures.

Terry Murtagh, Service User Involvement Coordinator

Terry is the Service User Involvement Coordinator providing the logistics for the smooth running of the National & Young Persons’ Forums. He is a former service user who had serious drug issues in the past. He turned his life around through volunteering in service user involvement and was a founder member of Outside-In - St. Mungo’s successful service user group. He completed the Enterprise Solutions: Training the Trainers course at Groundswell before becoming their Office Administrator in July 2006. He then worked as the Finance Officer at Homeless Link and now works three days per week at Revolving Doors and the other two days as the Finance Assistant at Groundswell. He gained a BSc(Hons) in Mathematical Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London in 1994.

Mark Breedon, Interim Financial Controller

Shane Britton, Research & Policy Officer

Shane joined Revolving Doors in July 2011. He began working as an intern in the policy team, before moving to work full time as a research assistant on the Big Diversion Project. He is currently working on the First Generation project. Prior to joining RDA, he studied Msc Democracy and Comparative Politics at UCL, worked for Essex social services and completed a BA in History at Cambridge University.

Esther Dickie, Research and Information Officer

Working on the Connect London and SPARK projects, Esther joined the Partnerships and Development team in November 2011. Her interest in the work undertaken by Revolving Doors grew from her dissertation examining access to mental health care within English prisons, which was part of her MSc in Social Policy Research at LSE. Prior to this, Esther worked for six years as a probate genealogist, undertaking research for legal purposes.

Nicola Drinkwater, Policy and Public Affairs Assistant

Nicola joined Revolving Doors in November 2011 and works with Anna in the policy team. She is currently working on the Capital Gains project. Previously, Nicola was research intern at the Howard League for Penal Reform and has recently completed her Masters in Criminology and Criminal Justice at King’s College, London.

Claire Cairns, Regional Associate, North East and Yorkshire and Humberside

Prior to becoming a consultant, Claire was formerly a Police Officer and a Manager of a Drug Action Team/Community Safety Partnership. She has an MSc in Substance Misuse and is Prince2 Project Manager. Claire’s main area of expertise is in Children and Family services with particular emphasis on safeguarding children. Claire has written national guidance for adult agencies and is currently undertaking a national review on this subject.

Clare McGregor, Regional Associate, North West

Clare offers strategic analysis and development of partnerships, policy, and projects in fields such as reducing re-offending and counter-terrorism. She has worked to reduce inequality for over two decades and set up her consultancy in 2002. Clare’s approach is informed by her BA and MA from Cambridge University and she is a qualified coach. She runs her business as a social enterprise donating profit to a wide range of charities and was a Trustee of Revolving Doors Agency from 2001 to 2005.

June McKerrow, Regional Associate, West Midlands

June has over 40 years experience in the public and voluntary sectors, in health, housing, social care and education including 25 years as Chief Executive of three national voluntary organisations. For the past 10 years June has been working mainly on a freelance basis but is also part time director of a small disability charity. June has been a trustee of several charities and a Non Executive Director of a Mental Health Trust. She is also a Mental Health Act Manager.

Richard Tamlyn, Regional Associate, South West

Richard is the Regional Associate for the South West and works on a number of other central projects for the organisation. Richard’s areas of interest are drugs treatment, CJS and performance management. In common with the other associates, Richard is independent; his other work areas mainly focus on drugs and criminal justice service provision. Previously he worked for drug treatment services for some 15 years, was with the Home Office and then headed up DrugScope’s Consultancy.

Susan Grey, Regional Associate, East of England

Susan Grey has 25 years of experience within health and social care; in the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK and abroad. During her career she has operated at service delivery to board level for a wide range of client groups. Currently as a consultant her main focus of interest, driven by a passion for and drive for improvement through partnerships at all levels, is concerned with offender health/well being and supporting justice.

Bernadine King, Regional Associate, East Midlands

Bernadine has worked as an independent consultant since 2005, following senior leadership roles with a number of local authorities. Bernadine’s career direction has been based on the principles of social justice and social inclusion, in relation to education, social care, health and criminal justice policy and practice. In recent years she has undertaken commissions for government departments, the National Treatment Agency, NOMS, local authorities and third sector agencies, particularly related to strengthening partnership working and strategic alignment to meet the multiple needs of people facing social exclusion.

Laura Thorne, Regional Associate, South East and London

Laura has worked in the field of mental health, social care and criminal justice for over 14 years, both as a practitioner and developmentally. She joined Revolving Doors in 1998 as one of the original Link Workers in Tower Hamlets and went on to develop and implement the first partnership Link Worker schemes. Laura has since worked for the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health as Criminal Justice Projects Manager and now works independently in the sector. Other clients include the National Policing Improvement Agency, Government Office of the South West, HMPS and Clinks.

Sue Raikes

Sue leads Revolving Doors' Families and Social Networks project.

Since retiring as Chief Executive of the Thames Valley Partnership, a voluntary organisation seeking long term solutions to the problems of social exclusion and crime, Sue has developed a portfolio of paid and voluntary work supporting the charitable sector on social and criminal justice and social exclusion. She brings particular expertise in work with offenders, preventive approaches and the role of the voluntary sector in innovation and has wide experience of policy and practice. Sue’s interest in complex needs and criminal justice goes back to the 1980’s in the probation service and she has worked alongside Revolving Doors since its early days.