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.

Clemmie Field
Co-Head of Development
Having started her career in corporate responsibility, Clemmie has over 15 years experience in fundraising for national UK charities, from childrens' hospitals to education and social mobility causes. As a mum to a little girl and twin boys, Clemmie is passionate about giving families with multiples the best experience from pregnancy to birth and through their parenting journey. As Co-Head of Development, Clemmie feels very lucky to be able to share this role with her long-standing job share partner, Jess McClymont.
Jess McClymont
Co-Head of Development

Jess started her career selling sponsorship packages at a global membership organisation in New York City. When she returned for to the UK in 2013, she started her fundraising career after securing a job as a Corporate Partnership Manager at the Princes Trust. In 2015, Jess moved to the education charity Teach First where she led both the Corporate Partnerships and Supporter Experience teams. In her personal life, Jess is a mum to a little girl and twin boys who keep her on her toes. Twins Trust was a lifeline to Jess in both her pregnancy and early twin parenting days and she feel very excited to be able to use her skills and experience (alongside her job share partner, Clemmie) to support even more parents of multiples at different stages of their journeys.  

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.
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.
Dr 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.
Dr Amanda Norman
Trustee
Amanda is a Senior Lecturer (Early Education) at the University of Winchester and convenor of the early years strand within the CREATE research centre. Before this post she was co-lead of a successful day nursery, and programme lead, both teaching in further and higher education for over twenty-five years. Amanda's research is underpinned by a Froebelian philosophy and Person-centred approach. Her primary focus of current research is on the professional role of practitioners, particularly those working with children under three, and psychotherapeutic principles and approaches in early years education. As a therapeutic play specialist and counsellor, she is drawn to biographical and ethnographic research as a methodology. This has also further developed into an interest about relationships, particularly between children, practitioners and parents, developing thinking about how the nexus of the past informs contemporary practice. She is a parent to four children including twin boy and girl and resides by the coast enjoying beach days when she can with her family.
Bart Quinton Smith
Trustee
Bart is Managing Director of First Choice, leading the transformation of a much-loved travel brand in the UK. First Choice is part of TUI Group and Bart is also a member of the TUI UK & Ireland Board. He joined TUI in 2010 as a graduate trainee and moved into leadership roles in commercial, digital and mobile. In 2016 he joined Google as an Industry Manager, working with some of their biggest travel clients on their digital growth and transformation. He returned to TUI in 2018 to head up digital acquisition, before becoming Digital Marketing & CRM Director. In April 2023, Bart and his wife Sam welcomed their son Finnegan, born seven weeks premature but is thriving. Finn is an identical twin, however Bart and Sam sadly lost their son Ace at 17 weeks following TTTS & TAPS and two fetal surgeries to try and save both or one of the twins. Bart and Sam benefited from support from Twins Trust during this very difficult time. Outside of work, he's passionate about travel (obviously), sport and spending as much time as possible with those closest to him.
Ali Ramsay
Trustee

Ali is Director of External Affairs for a UK charity. Her previous roles have included Head of Policy and Public Affairs for the British Veterinary Association, Chief of Staff in the UK Parliament and several communications roles across various membership organisations. 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.