Meet the Team
At HSP, our team is a dynamic blend of diverse expertise and passionate individuals dedicated to delivering exceptional results.
John O'Callaghan
Director
Adrian Ledbury
Strategic Lead - Transformation
Lead business operations to drive a high performing organisation and lead for active environments.
Alex Varran
Sports Project Officer
Active Communities (developing Sport and Physical Activity opportunities to counter inequality)
Active Lives Children and Young People Survey and junior parkrun
Crime Reduction through Sport
Benjamin Woodford
Graduate Project Lead
Britney Mangani
Graduate Marketing Executive
Charlie Mann
Workforce & Projects Officer
Support for clubs, coaches, volunteers and NGBs and lead for a range of sport for social change projects.
Charlotte Bird
Active Ageing Officer
Lead on all operations that target use of physical activity to improve older adult health and independence
Charlotte Stringer
Active Local Officer – Cowley Hill
Project officer for our placed-based work in Cowley Hill (Hertsmere).
Changeev Sivaharan
Graduate Finance Analyst
Chris Samways
Programme Funding and Grants Officer
Lead officer for Opening School Facilities, Together Fund and Opportunities Fund.
Project officer for the Partnership’s work around Shared Prosperity.
Claire Stratford
Team Lead - Place (Active Local) and Marketing Communications
Team Lead for the Partnership’s place-based work, known as Active Local.
Strategic oversight for the Partnership's Marketing and Communications.
Davinia Thacker
Finance & HR Officer
Providing financial management and HR support for the team.
Emily Vidor
Graduate Project Lead
Emma Catlin
Project Officer – Children & Young People
Lead Project Officer for HAPpy Training Programme, CYP Events, and project officer for Summer Parks.
Faye Lahiffe
Project Assistant - Children & Young People
Lead Project Assistant for Early Years, Summer Parks and Park Play.
Hafsa Nabi
Graduate Insight and Evaluation Analyst
Jess Baird
Active Local Officer – Bedwell
Project Officer for our placed-based work in Bedwell (Stevenage).
Joe Gamble
Project Officer - Sport Welfare
Lead Officer in supporting sports club for Welfare matters
Josh Hardy
Children & Young People Admin Assistant
Kiyana Fryer
Children & Young People Assistant
Project Assistant for the Summer Parks Programme
Lily Jones
Children & Young People Assistant
Lead Project Assistant for the Daily Mile and Project Assistant for Park Play.
Louise Gallagher-Smith
Children & Young People’s Team Lead
Manager and oversight of the Partnership’s work around Children & Young People, including:
Management of the Children and Young People team.
Day-2-day management of our HAF (known in Hertfordshire as HAPpy) contract with Hertfordshire County Council.
Strategic oversight around school sport.
Oversight of our Early years contract with Hertfordshire County Council.
Matt Rayner
Strategic Lead – People, Places, Programmes
Provide strategic oversight around the Partnership’s support of our Community Sport and Physical Activity Sector. Including: School Sports, Park Play, Together Fund, Opening School Facilities, parkrun, HAF and Early Years.
Develop and oversee our Place-Based approach to tackling inequalities and reducing inactivity.
Lead the Partnership’s Sport for Social Change programme, including our work around using sport as a vehicle to reduce crime & disorder.
Coordinate and manage the Partnership’s liaison and working practices with Hertfordshire’s 10 local authority partners
Matt Ridley
Active Local Officer – Waltham Cross
Project Officer for our placed-based work in Waltham Cross (Broxbourne).
Orla Moore
Insight and Evaluation Officer
Support the team and partners with their monitoring, evaluation, learning, insight and impact needs.
Tanya Angus
School Sport Lead
Leads on connecting the Partnership’s work with our primary and secondary schools across the county, including School Games, School Sport Headteacher Advocate Group events and our annual Primary PE Conference.
Tania Woods
Active Ageing Project Assistant
Project assistant to all operations that target use of physical activity to improve older adult health and independence
Tom Horey
Mental Health & Disability Officer
Support a range of partner organisations to enable better use of physical activity to benefit those living with a disability and/or poor mental health.
Sarah Keen
Long COVID Officer
Lead all areas of the Partnership’s Long COVID & Physical Activity project.
Viki Huszar
Graduate Project Lead
Will Slemmings
Strategic Lead – Physical Activity for Health
Lead HSP’s work championing the importance of physical activity to improve our populations health.
Zoe McKeating
Project Assistant - Health Team
Supporting and upskilling a range of partner organisations on the benefits of physical activity to benefit those with poor health, with a specific focus on mental health.
About Us
Get in touch…
If you have a generic question please email the Herts Sport & Physical Activity Partnership team: hspinfo@herts.ac.uk