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Cathy Wood – Chair

To be updated

Nigel Leach – Treasurer

Favourite sign: Cake

Nigel combines a love of singing and helping people with a flair for a spreadsheet in his work for Include.org. He has worked in a range of fields, currently as a Reinsurance Analyst for Unum. When he isn’t singing, volunteering or balancing the books, he loves spending time with his children, grandchildren and wonderful wife, Lynette

Derek Hill – Trustee

Favourite sign: Horse

Derek has a background in marketing and business.  He’s practical, and loves building things, and fixing things. He supports Include because it’s helping to create a more accepting, supportive society. And because of the cake.

Faisal Osman – Trustee

Favourite sign: Question

Faisal is a Barrister at the Chambers of Andrew Mitchell QC. International jetsetter, specialist lawyer and family man, Faisal brings many skills to the Board…but he won’t tell us what his favourite sign is …answers on a postcard anyone?

Harriet Ayhan – Trustee

Harriet works at the Orpheus Centre as a support worker and was looking for a choir for one of her students. Her student had severe ASD and could not sit still for any length of time, so he could not have joined just any choir. A colleague of Harriet’s mentioned the Include Choir and so they went along. Not only was the Include Choir perfect for him, but it opened a whole new world for Harriet when she was not in a good place.

Harriet tells us “It is like being in a healing place and you feel so good and inspired after each session. The choir has increased my confidence and self respect and I am learning about a whole other world of communication and how it is so important that everybody has a voice and they have a right to get that voice heard.”

Alix Lewer – Founder and Director

Favourite sign: to understand

Speech and Language Therapist, safeguarding specialist, musician and cake-maker. Alix’s personal and professional experience, a desire for change and a tendency to see the silly side of things all came together to create Include.org.