Staff Team
Frances Duncan - Interim CEO
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Helen Bashford – Older LGBTQ Project Development Worker
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Reuben Davidson – Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex Social Prescriber
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Luke Martin – Interim Domestic Abuse Manager
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Ciara Murphy – Safe Accomodations Domestic Abuse Caseworker
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Em Digiovanna – Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVA)
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Emily Sawyer – Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVA)
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Lesley Whittal – Finance and Administration Officer
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Chris Baker - Helpline & Insights Manager, Interim Bereavement, Older People’s and Dementia (BOLD) Projects Manager
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Trustees
Andy Brett - Co-Chair - He/Him
Andy is an internationally experienced HR Director and Organisational Development professional with years of experience in culture and behaviour change. A qualified therapist and executive coach, Andy is also a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute – specialising in leadership, wellbeing and team dynamics, and performance.
Andy has worked with the Boards of several organisations. In addition to his role as a trustee with Switchboard, he is also the Treasurer of Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy. This is the second time Andy has volunteered with Switchboard. He was previously a volunteer counsellor with our counselling service when it was operational.
Andy moved to Brighton in 2012 with his partner and is currently studying for an MSc in Clinical Nutrition.
Jeffrey Howard - Co-Chair - He/Him
Jeff has lived and worked in the UK, Canada, Switzerland, and the Netherlands for international businesses including Swarovski and The Body Shop. His career spans multiple sectors and he has a unique blend of senior level commercial, HR and consulting experience. Jeff has led major performance transformation projects at The Body Shop, L’Oreal and Swarovski. His work focuses on optimising performance through culture, leadership and organisational effectiveness.
Jeff’s approach is differentiated by his strong commercial instinct, founded in early career experience as a retailer with full P&L accountability. He is currently Senior Vice President of Operations for Swarovski, where he leads the operational support for Swarovski’s philanthropic endeavours, the Swarovski Foundation and Swarovski Waterschool. Previously he held roles including Senior Vice President Global Human Resources for Swarovski Consumer Goods Business, Global Head of the Leadership Development and EMEA Director of Retail for The Body Shop.
Jeff has a specific affinity for values-based organisations and a track record of volunteering for Brighton-based third sector organisations, advising on strategy, HR and organisational development.
Charlotte Fiander - She/Her
Charlotte is a communications professional with over 17 years of experience working within the charity sector and specialising in membership organisations and development. She is the current Head of Communications at Cobseo, the Confederation of Service Charities, and previously led the communications team at the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, most notably leading the promotion of the organisation’s year-long centenary celebrations.
She leads on all equality, diversity, and inclusion work in her current role through developing inclusive strategy to foster engagement and debate as well as providing advice and support to over 300 individual organisations. She previously led on the development of the WI’s inclusion policies.
Charlotte has worked with a variety of trustee boards throughout her career and is keen to use her communications and charity experience to support the LGBTQ+ community in Sussex.
Lucy Cryan - Treasurer - She/Her
Lucy is a chartered accountant and her career focuses on forensic accountancy and the prevention, detection and investigation of financial crime. She has also advised organisations on their compliance, governance and risk management programmes, including issues relating to ethics, business conduct and diversity and inclusion.
Lucy has extensive experience of articulating financial information and financial governance matters to individuals without a finance background, and is looking forward to bringing this to her first trustee role. Lucy has lived in Brighton since 2021.
Josh Wells - He/Him
Josh is a medical affairs professional and specialist pharmacist by training with an extensive background in clinical operations, research, and health inequalities.
He has worked within a variety of organisations such as the NHS, Public Health England, and the voluntary sector, with one of his earliest roles at the Terrence Higgins Trust, where he developed an interest in LGBTQ+ health and HIV. Josh was previously the senior clinical lead for a digital LGBTQ+ sexual health service while teaching and developing the LGBTQ+ health curriculum for Kingston University in his current academic post.
Josh has recently submitted his PhD in behavioural diagnostics and sits on several committees for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including the Pharmacist Defence Association and RxSHARE, an international 2SLGBTQ+ think tank that represents pharmacists for sexual and gender health advocacy, reform, and equity.
Josh is excited to join Switchboard as his first trustee role with a view to bringing his experience in clinical governance, safeguarding, and research to support the wider Sussex LGBTQ+ community.
Giancarlo Angelucci - Chair of Governance - He/Him
Giancarlo has worked in the international development sector for over 20 years, working with small and large organisations focusing on children, girls, and young people. He has extensive expertise in learning and impact assessment, participatory data collection and analysis, and visualisation of digital data. He has worked with organisations such as Comic Relief and Plan International UK.
Originally from Italy, after several years working with young people in deprived communities in Brazil, he moved on to complete a Master’s degree in Human Rights and International Development, which included an internship at the Argentinian Human Rights Secretariat in Buenos Aires. He has worked in the not-for-profit sector in the UK since 2010, and has been a proud trustee at Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard since 2020.