Golborne Forum Board - member profiles

Jonathan A’Lee

Haroun Amin

Jenni Bonner

Margaret Cairns-Irvens has lived in North Kensington for the past 28 years and in Watts House on Wornington Road since 1983. She was a member of the Golborne United Board and also sat on the board of Kensington Housing Trust for eight years. She is a member of Kensington and Chelsea Patient and Public Involvement Forum.

Inspector Andy Carter has worked in Kensington and Chelsea for three years and has been Sector Inspector for North Kensington since August 2006; he is based at Royalty Studios, Lancaster Road. Andrew is responsible for the Safer Neighbourhood teams in Golborne, Colville, Notting Barns and St Charles wards. He also runs the Problem Solving team of around 10 officers who can be deployed anywhere in North Kensington to tackle specific problems.

Rachid Choaibi has worked with the Golborne community for 10 years, supporting disadvantaged local residents with the Moroccan Community Welfare Group (MCWG). He was awarded the Kensington and Chelsea Mayor's Award in 2005 for his services to the local community.

Sarah Cole, originally from Nigeria, has lived in Golborne since 1987 and has brought up a daughter and three sons here. She retired in January 2006 after 16 years working for the Royal Mail. She was an active member of the Golborne United SRB Board.

Stephen Cole, son to Sarah, has lived in Golborne for 17 years and has an MA in communications and media studies from Brunel University in Uxbridge. He was a member of the Golborne Unite SRB Board.

Abdelghafour Dahbiskali has lived and worked in North Kensington since 1984. He is the Community Information & Initiatives Officer in the Community Relations Section at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. His main concerns are elderly people, young people and environmental issues and he has been involved with a number of local community groups.

Tom Fitch has lived on the Swinbrook estate for seven years and lived in other parts of North Kensington before that, helping to set up the Sesame Housing Co-op. He is Director of CASH, a Golborne-based charity which works across London advising charities on financial management.

Mary Gardiner

Lakhwinder Gill has been a health development worker for Sixty Plus since July 2005. Sixty Plus has been involved in Golborne through Garden Guardians, the Golborne Stall, Golborne workshops and recently through the Money Matters workshops for older people at the Swinbrook residents room.

Suresh Gupta, managing director of India Investments PLC, has lived in Golborne Ward since 1979 and is president of the India Welfare Society, director and treasurer of the Kensal Community Association and a governor of St. Charles Primary School. He is also a member of the Kensington and Chelsea Borough Community Relations Advisory Group and of the Kensington and Chelsea Police and Community Group.

Justine Hart

Bridget Hoier has lived in North Kensington since 1968 and has brought up five children in the area. She has been a governor of Middle Row Primary School, helped set up a tenants association in Octavia House and campaigned for better children’s facilities. She was a Golborne Ward councillor for 23 years.

Sergeant Orlando Jeffrey

Millicent Jobson

Janine Jolly is head of Community Engagement and Partnerships at Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust and was a member of the Golborne SRB board from May 2003. She is committed to working for the improvement of the health of local residents and a reduction in health inequalities.

Chrissie Leach has been the headteacher at Sion Manning RC Girls School for the past four years. The school is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence and developing the potential of every individual.

Reg Kerr-Bell is originally from New Zealand and has lived in London for 25 years, with the last nine of those in North Kensington's West Row Estate. He was a member of the Golborne United SRB board, he was a founder member and chair of the West Row Tenants Association and has been very active in the Kensington and Chelsea TMO.

Conor Kilbane works for the Catalyst Housing Group and is the Regeneration Manager for Wornington Green. Conor trained as an architect and has spent 20 years working in the private and public sectors. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster. His last project was in Harlesden where he led a small team responsible for a £100 million regeneration project of three estates.

Chrissie Leach

Aicha Manakova

John O'Donnell has lived in North Kensington all his life. He is currently chairman of governors at the Sion Manning RC Girls School. He shops at Prices’ greengrocers and various stalls along the Golborne Road.

Chris Peacock

Andrea Pita has worked at the Kensington Housing Trust for the last four years as a Tenant Partnership Officer. Her job involves helping people to get involved in the running of the Trust and the organisation and support of tenants associations.

Susie Parsons is chair of the Golborne Forum Board and first got to know the area in the 1970s when she worked at the North Kensington Law Centre. Her son was a pupil at Bevington School in the 1980s and she and her family lived in Golborne for 15 years and North Kensington for more than 30 years. She was a founder member of the Golborne United SRB and became chair of the Board.

Roger Roberts is originally from Canada and has lived in and around the area for 25 years, and is now living on the Golborne bit of Portobello Road. After giving up work in marketing in the City, he now works as a teacher. He was a member of the Golborne United Board.

Alison Sage

Wendy Stevenson is Area Housing Manager for the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (North-East Area). Wendy has worked for the TMO since 1999 and previously worked in the area for Kensington Housing Trust from 1993. Before that, she worked for the Royal Borough from 1989 and so is familiar with issues in the locality. Wendy is a Management Committee Member of CALM mediation which offers a community mediation service in the Borough.

Keith Stirling has lived in Golborne for over 40 years, and is chair of the Wornington Green Residents’ Association. He also serves on Kensington Housing Trust’s customer service committee, and is a trustee of the KHT Community Fund. He is well-known for his charity bike rides from John o’ Groats to Land’s End.