Who we are

We're a team of people from all over the world, dedicated to making our home a place where everyone can belong

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Our mission

We enable people of diverse origins to make the UK their home. Our approach involves people from the very beginning in the design of the services they use.

Working along-side migrants, refugees and long-settled British communities, we ensure people have a voice in the issues that affect them. This means they can transform their communities and society to work for all who live here.

Our impact

Every year, we help hundreds of people get protection from violence and persecution so they can live in safety and build new lives. We help hundreds more to learn English, find work, and use their skills to transform their communities.

Thanks to the dedication and hard work of our volunteers and staff, people are able to rebuild lives, support themselves and their families, and achieve their ambitions.

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Wayne Myslik

CEO

Stefani Tasheva

Receptionist

Yva Alexandrova Meadway

Policy and Campaigns Manager

Tim Masters

Careers Adviser

Laura Dunn

Customer Experience Manager

Isabel Ros López

Co-production & Involvement Manager

Matthew Horton

Head of Individual Giving

Debora Singer MBE

Senior Policy Adviser

Amanuel Woldesus

Head of Integration and Community Development

Shenna Vella

Integration and Community Development Co-ordinator

Mathilde Dupouy

Integration and Community Development Administrator

Kyriaki Kafyra

Community Organising Coordinator

Lorenza Arnaboldi

Office Manager

Ciarán Price

Head of Communications and Public Affairs

Ian Kane

Head of Legal Services

Harpreet Kaur

Solicitor

Adam Milton

Solicitor and Senior Caseworker

Sandi Kudhail

Supervising Solicitor- Advocate

Charlotte Horekens-Alderson

Solicitor and Senior Caseworker

Asli Guzel

Statelessness Caseworker

Rebecca Flint

Children’s Solicitor - Supervisor

Huw Eliot

Asylum and Triage Caseworker

Cynthia Orchard

Statelessness Policy and Casework Coordinator

Isabella Pereira

Chair of Trustees

Isabella is a Research Director in Ipsos MORI’s dedicated qualitative social research methods team. She has been a trustee of Consonant since 2009.

Rebekah Duncan

Trustee

Rebekah is Head of Operations for the Prince’s Trust, responsible for engaging local communities, government, education institutes and employers to address social mobility and youth unemployment.

Doris Afreh

Trustee

Doris is a HR professional with over 15 years experience in a range of sectors. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development. Passionate about people, equality and inclusion.

Vebi Kosumi

Trustee

Vebi has worked with asylum seekers and refugees since 2000 in the UK and abroad. Currently he is a freelance consultant – country of origin expert on western Balkans region focusing on Albania and Kosovo.

Sile Reynolds

Trustee

Sile is the Lead Asylum Policy Advisor at Freedom from Torture and leads advocacy aimed at improving legal and policy protections for torture survivors. She has over fifteen years' experience in policy research and advocacy, covering asylum & migration, mental health and equalities.

Jonathan Thomas

Trustee

Jonathan is the Migration Researcher at the Social Market Foundation think tank. Prior to that he had a career as a financial lawyer in the City of London, including 15 years at Goldman Sachs.

Richard Priestman

Trustee

Richard is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years experience in the finance and banking sectors. For over 25 years he worked for NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland where most he was managing director of Corporate Businesses of Lombard.

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Partnering with us

Working with businesses is core to our approach to transforming our communities. We aim to build corporate relationships that are strategically aligned and mutually beneficial. Find out about our partnerships and how you, your staff and business can can get involved.

Find out more

View our annual facts and figures

We’re busy preparing our annual report for the last year. We’ll have this published very soon. Please check back here or get in touch.