Founders

Chairman

About

Simon is a highly accomplished and seasoned senior real estate professional, with an illustrious career spanning over three decades.

With a wealth of experience in the real estate industry, he has excelled in acquiring, developing, and successfully selling portfolios – as an investor and working alongside high-net-worth individuals. With a background in property investment and development, construction and project management, Simon has experience across all major UK property sectors and particular expertise in the retail, office, and residential markets.

Simon is the founder and CEO of Augur Group, a boutique property investment and development outfit, whose principal purpose is to acquire underperforming assets and add value through improved asset management and effective development solutions.

Secretary

About

I am a PR expert with considerable experience gained from working in consultancies and in house. I do my best to be proactive and save my clients' time.

I run a business with a team that supports people with vision who are making the world a better place. These clients typically operate at a national or global level yet are 'hands on'.

The agency's clients include world-renowned inventors, engineers, technical experts and visionaries of international renown. I'm very proud to work with the renowned inventor, Dr John C Taylor OBE.

Prior to setting up the agency, I worked for four years in house at Ryman, where I was Director of PR for the stationery brand and publicist for the company’s Chairman, Theo Paphitis, of Dragons' Den.

Trustee

About

Experienced Director with a demonstrable and successful history of working in the automotive leasing and fleet management industry both in the UK and Russian Federation. Strong, entrepreneurial professional skilled in negotiation, business planning, operations management, sales, and pricing strategy.

Trustee

About

Andrea has been working in the holistic health field for the last 21 years utilising her abilities to mentor and coach people from all walks of life with her compassion helping them to succeed in life.

She teaches coping mechanisms and tools to combat mental health issues, using meditation, talking therapy and breathing techniques with young children and adults.

With her wealth of experience she is bringing all of that knowledge on board to Kids In Mind.

Treasurer

About

Young professional and CA with exposure to a wide range of risk and compliance work, as well as non-profit leadership, and running my own business.

Experience in SAS, Python and working with Big Data

Chief Executive Officer

About

As the Chief Ambassador at a domestic violence charity supporting disadvantaged children for the last 12 years, Julian has a wealth of experience in the third sector.

Having run a number of successful businesses he is able to devote time and enthusiasm to the founding of a new charity and plans to support many more children in the future.

Julian is also a Trustee at Cure Cancer @ UCL which is funding research into Non Hodgkin's (Lymphoma) and a keen Chelsea supporter.

Chief Ambassador

About

Air Commodore Gordon Moulds CBE DL RAF (Ret’d) was involved in the Falkland Islands, Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. His more notable appointments included Commandant of the Air Cadet Organisation; Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands; and NATO Commander of Kandahar Air Base responsible for over 29000 personnel from over 40 nations.

Gordon is currently Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire

Previously the CEO of KidsOut Gordon has relished the opportunity of Kids in Mind which provides wellbeing and mental health support to children who have escaped serious domestic violence and have found sanctuary in a Women’s refuge.

Head of Relationships

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Kathy has over 30 years’ experience in business development, fundraising, event/campaign management and public relations. She has worked in many sectors including FMCG, business services and the charity sector.

Kathy started her career in London working in business development and relationship management for design and PR agencies and has worked with many blue-chip companies including Astra Zeneca, Cadbury’s, Direct Line, Kraft Foods, Johnson & Johnson, Mastercard, London Underground and Unilever.

She brings a wealth of experience to Kids in Mind having worked for several charities including the National Energy Foundation, World Vision and most recently KidsOut.

Child Wellbeing Specialist

About

Kerrie has over 20 years experience as a teacher and several years as a workshop leader. She is a qualified NLP Practitioner and Grief and Bereavement Councellor.

She has worked with thousands of young people in various educational settings. From schools to colleges and Universities.

She worked in Parliament organising participatory events, conscious business and across many arts orgnaisations, charities and NGO’s such as: Alternatives, Mind, Bedford Creative Arts, Luton Irish Forum.

Her recent training and specialism is in Advanced Neuroplacticity Brain-Retraining (Gupta Program) and she has developed the Wellbeing Programmes for Kids in Mind.

Chief Ambassador

Air Commodore Gordon Moulds, CBE DL is a retired Senior Royal Air Force Officer who held various commands including most recently Commander of Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan.

Gordon is currently Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire

Previously the CEO of KidsOut Gordon has relished the opportunity of founding a new charity as he is paasionate about providing support in the Mental Health arena for disadvantaged children

Ambassador

Greville has many years experience in sponsorship and marketing consultancy having run his own successful agency - The Sponsorship Consultancy. His client list included many blue-chip companies and he raised substantial sums in sponsorship revenue, winning five Hollis and Sport Industry Awards. Since retiring he has become a qualified mediator and also teaches Autogenic Training - a mind/body relaxation treatment. Greville has been a magistrate for over a decade and has written five books on the Criminal Justice system as well as his beloved Brentford FC. He was formerly Chair of the Council at The Institute and a trustee of PSU and also advises and assists The Renaissance Foundation.

Child Psychologist

I have over 10 year's experience in mental health settings. I'm a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with training in CBT, DBT Schema therapy.

My clinical specialties include working with young people, people with intellectual disabilities, learning difficulties and autism. I have experience working with human rights agencies conducting complex assessments.

My work is very much focused on supporting individuals to thrive, excel in their strengths whilst supporting positive change. This can take place in business and NGO settings too.

Ambassador

Marc left school at 17 to go directly into a family fashion wholesale shirt business becoming a Director at 18 before branching out into retail, and becoming joint owner of 3 men’s wear shops.

In 1990 he decided to change direction completely to go into Wealth Management, he was with Allied Dunbar for 18 months before joining J. Rothschild Assurance ( now St James’s Place PLC ) in February 1992 where he stayed for 31 years becoming a Managing Partner, his expertise was IHT and investment planning.

In June 2023 he decided he needed more time to concentrate on other avenues.

He hopes to bring his wealth of experience to benefit Kids in Mind.

Ambassador

I’m the Founder/Director of Claremont Consulting (a global talent solutions business) which I set up in 2002 and I also run a consulting advisory firm for SMEs and Tech Start-ups

I have worked as a volunteer on a number of initiatives including being a Pioneer/Founder of Opera which was a charity set up by the global Staffing industry movement in partnership with the Princes Trust to empower young people to find, gain and keep a job.

I am married with 3 grown up children and 5 grandchildren who I love to spend time with, and outside of work I love travelling abroad, walking in the countryside and I’m passionate about football, still playing albeit it’s walking football now and I volunteer at my local non-league club on their commercial team as they look to progress the club forward.

I feel incredibly privileged to work as an Ambassador with Kids in Mind and support them in the amazing work they do to provide mental health support to disadvantaged children who have escaped serious domestic violence and give them much needed support that they might not get without the amazing work done by the Kids in Mind team.”