Our People

Niall has worked in the homeless field for over 20 years with many of those at Turning Tides, having set up The Recovery Project, Manor Road, a Stepping Stones Project and now overseeing our Operational teams. He’s the Registered Care Manager of the Recovery Project with a First Class Honours degree in Substance Misuse Management from Kent University.

Niall originally moved into social care through interests developed in voluntary roles coaching young people. He’s also worked for CRI and Stonham Housing Association. Niall has lived in the Worthing area for the last 50 years and has seven children. His interests include cycling, kayaking and he’s a British Canoe Union Coach.

Ella worked for Southdown Housing Association in a variety of management roles for 28 years, including 12 years as a Senior Manager, mostly serving people with a learning disability and with a focus on Quality and Practice. Ella is values driven and joined Turning Tides in April 2025. She is passionate about providing quality services for the people we support and positive workplaces for staff to do their best work.

Ella has lived in the Brighton and Worthing area for over thirty years, after growing up in her native Iceland. She enjoys meditative ‘granny hobbies’ such as knitting and sewing as well as volunteering for Olly’s future – a local suicide prevention charity and The Girls Network – mentoring teenage girls.

Becky has over 30 years’ experience in HR, mainly within the private sector. Her earlier career included working for Daewoo Motor Company, IKEA and Argos and the later part for large outsourcing companies such as Xafinity and HireRight. Her career allowed her to travel and learn about different workplace cultures and provided incredible learning opportunities in all areas of HR.

In 2019, due to changes in her personal life, Becky decided to shift gears and work for herself as an HR consultant. At this time she supported several small charities and found the work rewarding. She soon realised that working with people and doing a job she enjoyed was something she missed greatly and in 2022 joined Turning Tides. Becky’s love for her job drives her to improve the workplace for everyone – and now, at Turning Tides, knowing that the people we employ are changing lives makes coming to work deeply rewarding.

Family, dogs and everything food-related are Becky’s passions outside of work.

Clive has spent much of his career working with young people – whether directly supporting in residential settings, Youth Offending Service, or working in youth homelessness prevention. This experience led him to The Children’s Society, where he spent five years as a Strategic Partnerships Manager, covering the South of England from Exeter to Eastbourne. In his spare time, Clive is a dedicated runner – marathons are no challenge for him, with ultra marathons more to his pace. To unwind, he plays board games and paints small figurines, with a proudly full display cabinet to show for it.

Martin was born in Glasgow, grew up in Stoke-on-Trent and studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Aston in Birmingham, before moving to Worthing in 1982. He worked for GlaxoSmithKline for 33 years and was on the Worthing site Leadership Team for around 20 years; since 2015 working as an independent leadership consultant/trainer.

Martin volunteered as a cook at St Clare’s and Byron Road; determined to do whatever he could to help the people facing homelessness in the area. As a Trustee, Martin is very pleased to further support Turning Tides in the vital services we provide. Married with two grown-up children, in his spare time Martin enjoys watching and playing sport, walking with their dog, cooking and gardening.

Vicky works as a Procurement Executive Advisor, helping multinational companies predominantly headquartered in Europe and Asia, to assess their Procurement maturity, and plan and deliver on their Procurement transformation roadmaps.

She has a particular passion for advocating Supplier Relationship Management and Sustainable Procurement, and outside of work she is involved in many social value initiatives driving towards equity and inelusion.

She first became involved with Turning Tides in 2021 after moving to the coast and has volunteered across a number of sites and events. Her work colleagues joined the Roffey Place refurbishment and went on to organise several successful fundraising events.

Dan currently works for Brighton and Hove City Council as a Resettlement and Reconnection Officer, having started his career at St. Mungo’s No Second Night Out. He specialises in working with people who are new to rough sleeping. This could mean assisting and advocating for people to return to their home locality and forming sustainable housing pathways with people to address their homelessness.

Having studied History at University College London, Dan embarked on a successful career in Hospitality Management until a traumatic life event resulted in him experiencing a period of homelessness. Navigating the system to recover from this time in his life and meeting inspirational people who helped him were the catalysts for Dan to reassess his priorities. He realised that he could use his life experience and skills from his previous career to make a difference for other people experiencing hardship.

As a passionate believer in health and social inclusivity, a committed dog owner and proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, Dan believes every person that finds themselves rough sleeping, no matter who they are, their background or if they have a four-legged companion, deserves as many chances as they need to rebuild their lives and the opportunity to flourish through equal access to every aspect of the system.

Singing and acting are important to Dan and he is highly unlikely to turn down any invitation to take to a stage!

Duncan worked in the leisure industry for 30 years across the South East. He started as a Lifeguard and worked his way to become CEO of South Downs Leisure, where he was involved in the design and build of three new leisure centres in Southampton and Worthing. In 2000, Duncan had a scholarship to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia working at the Commonwealth Games Complex.

In his spare time, Duncan is the Event Director with Worthing Parkrun, founding member of Goodgym Worthing and organiser of the Three Forts Marathon. His hobbies include running (especially Parkruns!) walking and bike rides.

Bill first became involved with Turning Tides as a volunteer, keen to help less fortunate people going through poverty, social exclusion and homelessness.

Bill moved back to Sussex, where he was born, when he retired from a career as a journalist and, later, in public relations. He has written for national newspapers, appeared on TV and radio as a commentator and, in his PR role, has written briefings and speeches for public figures, including one for a Prime Minister about social inclusion in inner cities. One of his political campaigns helped the Liverpool-based Furniture Resource Centre gain traction for their work as a social enterprise to reduce furniture poverty in north-east England while employing survivors of substance abuse, former prisoners and the long-term unemployed.

Bill’s hobbies centre on travel, sport and music, although his teenage musical ambitions came to nothing in the late 1960s when he and his band failed an audition for a record deal. On the sporting front, he is a lifelong supporter and season ticket holder at Brighton & Hove Albion. He has five children and one grandchild and lives in Worthing with his wife Sally.

Having moved to Worthing at the age of 17, Sam focused on building her career whilst bringing up her two sons as a single parent. During this time, she gained over 20 years experience in Product Management as well as Sales and Marketing, progressing her career to Sales and Marketing Director and subsequently her current role as Managing Director for Welland Medical Ltd. Sam also achieved her MBA at the University of Brighton and the Certificate and Diploma in Company Direction with the Institute of Directors. Sam has experience of working as an advisor for Citizen’s Advice and prior lived experience of living on Welfare Benefits. Having spent the last 5 years in her capacity as Managing Director, she took the decision to retrain as a Health Coach, setting up her own health coaching practice. This also gives Sam the opportunity to focus on her role as Trustee, which she accepted in May 2025.  Sam is married to Mark and between them have 4 grown up children and 2 grandchildren. When time allows, she enjoys walking her dogs Molly & Mabel, strength training and photography.

Jon worked in social housing for many years becoming Chief Executive of Town and Country Housing Group and Interim Chief Executive of Westward Housing Group. He then changed direction and worked internationally for several charities including eight years as Chief Executive of World Child Cancer until his retirement. Jon always retained a connection to Housing, first as Chair of Gateway Housing and now as Chair of the Single Homeless project based in London.

On retiring, he returned to live in Brighton and was keen to contribute to the community in Sussex and hence was very pleased to join the board at Turning Tides. Jon has one adult daughter and lives with his dog, Bella.

Judith was born in south London but has spent most of her adult life living in the Worthing area, working for local firms of solicitors as a Legal Executive as well as the banking and utility industries in a property related field.

Over the past few years Judith has volunteered, and been a Trustee with, a local foodbank sharing a hub with Turning Tides, where she has seen first hand the work undertaken supporting people experiencing homelessness.

As a Trustee she is proud to be part of Turning Tides and believes that everyone, whatever their circumstances, should have access to the necessary support to enable them to fulfil their potential.

Judith is now retired and lives in Rustington with her husband. Between them they have five children and eight grandchildren so their time is pretty occupied, but in what spare time they have, they love to travel and Judith likes driving different forms of transport – a chieftain tank, a car transporter and a JCB to name but a few!

Neil has lived in Sussex all his life. He’s worked predominantly in the Financial Services sector – most recently as the Procurement Director for People’s Partnership. He previously worked with unemployed young adults at the Prince’s Trust, many of whom were at risk of homelessness, helping them build the skills needed to secure jobs and stable housing. Neil played a key role, alongside his family, in establishing Ferring Country Centre – a local charity serving as both a Riding for the Disabled centre and a horticultural training centre for adults with learning difficulties. Most recently, Neil has volunteered with Open House homelessness charity in Crawley.

Outside of work, Neil enjoys keeping fit, yoga, travelling, cooking and DIY. He’s ridden horses most of his life but sadly due to his many other interests, finds little time to indulge this passion.

Neil has often balanced his corporate career with charity work as he’s passionate about the role charities can play in society, supporting people in tackling some of life’s challenges. He joined Turning Tides to support its ambitions as it continues to grow and deliver more services to the community.

A fair chunk of Nick’s life has been spent living abroad, both as a child and through work, in Brazil, Argentina and Bermuda. Those experiences broadened his horizons and helped develop a profound appreciation for diverse cultures and communities. Equipped with an impressive background in Genetics (University of Nottingham) and also a Chartered Management Accountant, Nick became a global financial controller with teams in 7 countries around the world (not an easy task!). Before becoming a Trustee, Nick volunteered his skills for three years as an independent member of the Finance and Audit Committee at Turning Tides. As a Trustee, Nick looks forward to helping the charity navigate challenges and continue its vitally important work.

Retired, he lives in Worthing with his wife and between them they have four grown-up children, four grandchildren and two dogs. Nick loves living by the sea even if it’s not quite as warm as some of the other places he’s lived! His hobbies include walking the dogs, reading science fiction, watching Liverpool FC, listening to music (particularly Bruce Springsteen) and going to dance nights with his wife. Nick believes everyone deserves a warm bed, a safe haven and a chance to rebuild their life.

Peter has recently retired from leading Prison Fellowship, where as CEO he led 2,600 volunteers supporting people held in the 120 prisons across England and Wales.

Initially qualifying as an aircraft engineer, Peter retrained to build his career in HR, change management and organisational development.  As Head of People Delivery, he established and led BA’s first HR Shared Service Centre, delivering operational HR services company-wide to the BA team.  In 2010 Peter moved to Switzerland with his family and joined the international humanitarian agency Medair and as their Group HR Director jointly led the organisation through significant growth and change as a key member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Peter is married with two adult children and is interested in how organisations really work and how faith can play a positive and compassionate role in society.