We have a committed and dedicated team of staff, trustees and volunteers. Everyone’s contribution is invaluable and we are always delighted to welcome new volunteers.

 

Senior Management Team
Shauna Leven
Chief Executive Officer
Shauna has worked in senior management roles in the charity sector for more than ten years. She is also a human rights lawyer, a successful campaigner and strategist, but her most important role is mum to boy/girl twins.
Rafi Cooper
Head of Communications

Rafi has dedicated his career to communications and marketing within the charity sector. He’s worked in the UK and overseas for causes ranging from children to animals to international development. He places stories at the heart of all communications and his two little children are at the heart of his personal story.

Louise Bowman
Head of Family Services

I’ve been working with families my whole career - over 25 years. I completed my NNEB training after leaving school and worked in the childcare sector at a Day Nursery and then as a Private Nanny before moving to work in the charity sector as a Family Support Worker where I continued my training and development. I have worked with hundreds of families in need and crisis and facilitated many parenting workshops and courses. I then became a mum myself in 2010 and have three daughters (including twins) which inspired me to continue my work with families and offer support where needed.

I joined Twins Trust in 2013 when my twins were 10 months old as the Twinline Coordinator.  I have a passion for empowering and developing people which is why I love working here and working with all our volunteers who give their time to us to support the thousands of families each year.

Helen Peck
Head of Healthcare Engagement and Research
David Docherty
Head of Finance and Operations

 

Board of Trustees

Our volunteer trustees oversee the strategic direction of the charity. You can contact them directly via [email protected].

Simon Berney-Edwards
Chair
Simon is the Chief Executive Officer of the Expert Witness Institute and has ten years’ experience in leadership roles in Membership bodies. He joined the Board in 2018 as the trustee lead for Digital Transformation and became Chair in March 2023. He is father to twins achieved through surrogacy. Read his story here.
Rajmeet Bhatti
Treasurer

Rajmeet Bhatti joined as Treasurer in November 2022.  She is Chief of Staff at a global investment management firm having spent her corporate career in various finance, strategy and business management roles in the investment industry.  She is mother to twin boys and has been a member of Twins Trust since 2021.

Charlotte Aherne
Trustee
Charlotte joined us in November 2018 and is a legal director at a global investment bank. Charlotte is a mother of young twins.
Surabhi Nanda
Trustee
Surabhi is a Consultant in Maternal Fetal Medicine affiliated to two busy tertiary fetal medicine units in London, and has a special interest in multiple pregnancy. She leads a specialist multidisciplinary multiple pregnancy service in her unit. She is a Fetal Medicine representative of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society. She joined the Board of Trustees in 2019.
Rebecca Butler
Trustee
Rebecca is an experienced Fundraising & Marketing Consultant having held Director roles within the travel industry, NHS and Not For Profit Sector, including The Royal Marsden, The Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioners, Expedia and British Airways. She is also a volunteer Brownie Guide leader and a Mum of two.  Rebecca became a trustee in November 2019.
Ali Ramsay
Trustee

Ali works as Head of Policy and Public Affairs for a large UK membership organisation. Her previous roles have included nine years as Chief of Staff in the UK Parliament and a further eight years working for various membership organisations in public affairs and public relations roles. She is mother to twin boys, has been a member of Twins Trust since 2017 and became a trustee in June 2022.  

Katherine Rathbone
Trustee

Katherine works as head of HR in a global law firm and has over 18 years experience within professional services and construction and engineering organisations. She is mother to three young boys, including twins and has been a member of Twins Trust since 2018. She joined as a trustee in 2022.

Kate Riches
Trustee

Kate works as a Strategy Director for a Global multinational company and has 24 years of experience managing supply chain operations, company transformations and strategic development.  Kate is mother of triplet girls and has been a member of Twins Trust since 2011.  She joined as a trustee in November 2022.

Dominic Cashman
Trustee

Dominic is a Director at the Financial Conduct Authority.   He has 12 year old twins and a 10 year old.

Twins Trust's trustees serve for a fixed term as set out in our governing documents, which means that we periodically recruit for new Trustees. These recruitments will always appear on our website. If you are interested in a Trustee role, please send a CV and short personal statement detailing you’re your reasons for wanting to join the Board and what you would be able to contribute to [email protected] to be added to our pool of interested candidates. We value all expressions of interest and will do our best to respond to everyone promptly, but please be aware that there may not be an appropriate vacancy available at the time you submit your expression of interest.

 

President
Judi Linney MBE MSc Dip HEd HV
Twins Trust President and Honorary Consultant for Health and Social Care

Judi came from South Africa to England and then trained as a nurse, midwife and health visitor and Director of Public Health. 

She has more than 30 years of extensive experience in providing strategic leadership across NHS, Local Authorities, and Voluntary & Community Groups and working with the media. After giving birth to twin daughters, Judi and her husband Howard recognised the need for information and advice for families of multiples.

In 1978, she was a founder member of the Twins Club Association – which developed into Tamba and became Twins Trust in 2019. 

Judi has written various articles and a book for professionals on managing Multiple Births, and has given presentations nationally and internationally on multiple births.

Judi received an MBE at the Queen’s Birthday Honours ceremony, for services to healthcare, for her work in the NHS as a Director of public health, for Founding and being the President of Tamba and for developing community relations. Judi is currently an Independent Consultant and Coach and offers advice to community groups.

Read Judi's story.