Our staff and volunteers

Staff

• Phoebe Jakovlevas
• Adi Medasani
• Katie Hood

Welfare & HR Officer

Provides one-to-one support, helping guests navigate benefits, housing, and other challenges beyond food, while also overseeing HR responsibilities to ensure a supportive and compliant working environment for staff and volunteers.

Organising team

Focuses on driving long-term change by engaging with local decision-makers, helping to influence policies that address poverty and its root causes. They also lead on community engagement, organising events to raise awareness of the issues people in crisis face and to highlight the impact of our work across Colchester.

Volunteers

Over 250 committed individuals give their time to welcome guests, pack food parcels, and offer a listening ear with kindness and care.

Lead volunteers

Lead volunteers for our satellites

Duke of Edinburgh student volunteers

We are delighted to be celebrating two years of our Duke of Edinburgh awards programme, during which time we have guided twelve students through their bronze awards volunteering. Working with a parent, each of these young people successfully completed their twelve-hour course over a period of three calendar months.