The volunteer team at Equality
Alan Anstead
is the founder and Chief Executive. He is a strategic communications, programme management and human rights practitioner with considerable international experience of working for governments and NGOs, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for International Development and the European Roma Rights Centre. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Public Relations and of Charity Comms and a member of the Advisory Council for the Education of Romany and other Travellers.
Email alan@equality.uk.com or telephone +44 (0) 7704 616909
Heather Ureche
is an ‘early years’ education specialist with considerable experience of working with children and families from difficult backgrounds in the UK, and eleven years in Romania and Hungary working primarily with Roma communities. Since 2000 Heather has worked in England with Roma families from central and eastern Europe with the Children’s Society and later as a consultant and trainer. She is a co-author of ‘From Segregation to Inclusion' and 'The Movement of Roma from the new EU Member States’ reports, and other reports on Roma in the UK. Email heather@equality.uk.com or telephone +44 (0) 1636 815868
Ramona Constantin moved to Manchester from Ialomița, Romania, in 2009. Within 18 months she had progressed from selling
The Big Issue in the North to working as a classroom assistant and community support worker, thanks to a pioneering training scheme run by the magazine, the city council and partner agencies for young Roma adults with language skills.
Maneka Tohani is Equality's associate in Northern Ireland. She has been working with the Roma community whilst conducting a PhD in Queen's University Belfast, mainly in the field of education. Maneka is a Vodaphone World of Difference winner with the mental health charity Mindwise and has extensive experience working with children in difficult circumstances in Northern Ireland. Email
maneka@equality.uk.com
Nick Radu is a teacher in London. He was born in Romania and his background as a Rom coming from a poor area motivated him to study and work hard to qualify as a teacher. Nick wants to dispel the negative stereotypes of Roma and to help many in the Roma community achieve a better life, an objective that he believes can only be reached through education. Nick also coaches a local football team in his spare time.
Ciara Leeming is a Manchester-based freelance writer and photographer. A journalist since 2002, the focus of much of her independent work is indigenous Gypsies and Travellers and migrant Roma communities. She works with Equality
on a project basis.
Emma Mattingley is a Virtual Assistant with a background in senior administration and office management. Her experience and skills have come as a result of working in a broad range of industries as well as the charitable and not-for-profit sector. Emma is currently studying towards a BA/BSc (Honours) Degree in Combined Social Science. Email:
emma@equality.uk.com
Equality is a registered charity in England and Wales number 1138914, and a charitable company limited by guarantee number 7352494. Our registered office is at 19 The Malt House, The Drays, Long Melford, Suffolk, CO10 9TP.
Equality is a member of the
Together to School coalition of civil society organisations against discrimination and segregation in the Czech education system.
Equality is a member of
Citizens for Europe, which is a group of civil society actors supporting themselves to create a participatory and democratic Europe
