Our people

Grapevine’s power comes from the skilled and passionate people who live and breathe our mission everyday. They bring brilliance to our work.

Team Grapevine
The Grapevine team, September 2019

Seven key aspects of our culture support the team to perform at its best:

  • Being accountable to the people we serve
  • Freedom and trust to do what is right
  • Support to stay true to people’s dreams
  • Trust and encouragement to make decisions autonomously
  • Support to be curious, exploratory and playful
  • Modelling and transmitting our key skills and beliefs
  • Comfort with uncertainty when that’s necessary.
Members of our #WeAreGrapevine team
  1. Agatha Devlin, Project Worker
  2. Andrew Wood, Project Worker (Experts By Experience)
  3. Beverley Foster, Project Worker (Help and Connect)
  4. Cathy Allen, Finance Director
  5. Chloe Andrew, Community Organiser (Coventry Youth Activists and Community Mental Health Transformation)
  6. Claire Harvey, Communications Manager
  7. Clare Wightman, CEO
  8. Edwin Lukong, Community Organiser (Healthy Communities Together)
  9. Emma O’Brien, Project Worker (Health Team)
  10. Gemma Musgreaves, Community Organiser (Connecting for Good)
  11. Herbie Cullip, Project Worker (Health Team)
  12. Holly Thurgood, Project Worker (Help and Connect)
  13. Ian Webb, Sessional Worker (Teenvine Plus)
  14. Janet Doran, Programme Manager (Healthy Communities Together)
  15. Katie Baker, Senior Advocate and Office Manager
  16. Kirsty Baxter, Sessional Worker (Coventry Youth Activists)
  17. Kitty Wright, Project Worker (Help and Connect)
  18. Laura Fisher, Team Leader: Shifting Power
  19. Leonie Schmid, Community Organiser (Connecting for Good)
  20. Lucy Stone, Project Worker
  21. Lynn Donovan, Advocacy Officer
  22. Mel Smith, Deputy CEO
  23. Melissa Smith, Community Organiser (Connecting for Good and Coventry Youth Activists)
  24. Michael Orji, Project Worker (Settle and Thrive)
  25. Michelle Lewis, Community Organiser in Warwickshire
  26. Michelle Reid, Project Worker (Help and Connect)
  27. Molly Gillespie, Team Leader: Strengthening People and Community Organiser (Coventry Youth Activists)
  28. Naomi Madden, Director of Projects
  29. Paul Kedwards, Project Worker (Teenvine Plus Next Steps)
  30. Rose Gicovi, Community Organiser (Place Based Social Action)
  31. Sarah Grove, Project Worker (Teenvine Plus)
  32. Sophie Stone, Project Worker (Experts by Experience)
  33. Suzie Crowter, Senior Project Worker (Experts by Experience) and Community Organiser (Community Mental Health Transformation)
  34. Thomas Baker, Sessional Worker (Teenvine Plus)