Meet the Team
The ReconnectEd Board
Alexandra Hanratty
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Alex has nearly 20 years’ experience as a senior leader in not-for-profit organisations helping children and young people facing adversity to achieve their potential. She also has 10 years' governance experience, serving both as a charity Trustee and a Governor of Westside School (AP) where she represented the governing body at their successful 2019 OFSTED inspection. She is currently an Associate Governor of New River College Pupil Referral Unit which includes a medical, primary and secondary school. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Coaching from Metanoia Institute and founded the Coaching programme at an award-winning employment and education charity in inner London earlier in her career.
Belinda Logan
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & CO-FOUNDER
Belinda has successfully led a Special School and Alternative Provision School and has valuable experience as an OFSTED inspector, School Governor and Trustee of a Multi-Academy Trust. Belinda has also trained as a Coach through the University of Manchester and for the NPQH programme and has worked as an Achievement Coach for the charity Achievement for All. More recently she has worked as a Programme Director for a reducing exclusions project with Right to Succeed.
Georgia Score
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS & CO-FOUNDER
Georgia has valuable experience supporting young people facing adversity to achieve their potential in roles at Barnardo’s, NSPCC, Missing People and Royal SpringBoard. These roles have involved delivering early intervention programmes to young people at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation, as well as developing and growing a programme supporting Looked-After and Vulnerable young people to gain life-changing educational opportunities. Georgia also received a First-Class Honours degree in Psychology from the University of Birmingham and an MSc (with Distinction) in Forensic Psychology.
Peter Voisey
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Peter, a solicitor practising as a partner in a major City law firm, has an active interest in the educational sector, working on a voluntary basis as a tutor for disadvantaged pupils in a London school academy under the Action Tutoring programme. He serves as vice chair and non-executive director of a housing association run as a charity, has worked as a mentor for secondary schools pupils in Tower Hamlets and has served as trustee and treasurer of a north London community law centre. He has worked with Alex Hanratty in the development of the ReconnectEd business plan and is very committed to supporting its successful roll out and implementation.
Aidan Thompson
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Aidan has nearly 15 years’ experience in the Higher Education sector, managing research and grant lifecycles. He was the first Centre Manager of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham (2012-2017), before becoming its Director of Strategic Initiatives (2017-2023). He has led research projects, managed and developed significant partnerships and published articles and books in the field of character education. He led a project called Flourishing From the Margins (2015-2017) which worked with young people on the margins of mainstream education and educators in Alternative Provision in trying to better understand how marginalised young people view living a good life and how developed their sense of purpose is. He has worked with UNICEF, #iwill campaign, the Prince William Award, CIPD and many other non-academic partners. He has a BA(Hons) in English from Loughborough University (2015), a MPhil in Literature and Modernity from the University of Birmingham (2015). He is a PhD Candidate at Birmingham under the title 'The Ethical Value of Pop Lyrics'.
The Coaching Team
Rachael Hindley
RECONNECTED COACH
Rachael has worked within the education sector all her working life, starting in nursery, then moving into primary school. Rachael’s roles have been focused on delivering targeted interventions and behaviour management, and it is this pupil support that Rachael enjoys the most. Rachael went to Yewlands Academy herself, where she is now a Coach, and therefore knows the community well. Rachael has seen vast changes over time in the community, ranging from social housing issues, cultural changes, crime rates and deprivation. Rachael has also seen the immense impact that COVID has had on the children and parents’ mental health in the community. Rachael’s key strengths include being an empathetic person who advocates for the families she supports, building a strong relationship with them. Rachael told us she applied for the role as she is “passionate about children’s social emotional and mental health needs”.
Kimberley Rowe
RECONNECTED COACH
Kimberley has valuable experience working with challenging behaviour in a variety of settings, including a mental health home, nursing home and primary school. Kimberley has attended many training sessions covering ADHD, ASD, medication, eating disorders and mental health. This is what Kimberley says about her experience, “my experience comes from my own life choices. I was a child that was failed in school and this experience has led me to the job that I’m doing now, and of course my own children. I have two children both with additional needs.” Before Kimberley’s role as a ReconnectEd Coach at Yewlands Academy, she worked as a lunchtime supervisor at the school, as well as being an alumna of Yewlands Academy, and so knows the school community very well.
Ryan Suckley
RECONNECTED COACH
Ryan brings a range of experiences both from his previous career and his lived experiences growing up on the Parson Cross estate. In his work life Ryan has been the head trainer and manager of a well-known national chain of hair salons. More recently Ryan has found his life experiences have helped him to move into working with children and young people who are struggling to engage positively in education. This is where his passion lies and he is very positive about becoming a ReconnectEd Coach.
Ryan celebrates diversity and takes an optimistic view of what can be achieved using his own experiences of adversity to think positively but differently and feels no-one should fall through the gaps in education.
Bhavika Sahiri
COACH SUPERVISOR
Bhavika holds a BSc degree in Psychology (University of Leicester) and an MEd in Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (University of Birmingham). Bhavika is currently a PhD student researching the criminal exploitation of children through County Lines Drug Networks and facilitates county lines awareness training to children, parents and professionals. Her research complements her professional background and experiences of working with vulnerable children, adults and families at frontline and strategic levels within services such as Child Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Forensic Mental Health, Youth Offending, Education Welfare and the Southwark Virtual School. As an Emotion Coaching Trainer Practitioner, Bhavika facilitates train to promote emotional literacy and regulation.
Communications Advisor
Katie Halfhead
COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR
Katie has 10 years of comms experience across a mixture of B2B, B2C, and not-for-profit organisations, and in rapidly growing start-ups. Katie is also a Mental Health First Aider and equally passionate about culture and promoting mental health. She will be supporting us to spread the word about our work at ReconnectEd.