Our Team
Get to know our team and find out how we stay active.
Energise Me Trustees lead us to achieve our mission and purpose. They make sure we meet our legal duties and excel as a charity.
Our board of trustees brings together individuals with a wide range of skills and expertise. They ask us questions to help us think differently. They make suggestions to move things forward. And they act as a sounding board for ideas.
We aspire to have a diverse group of trustees who are representative of our local community. Our board already exceeds Sport England’s A Code for Sports Governance target. But we know there is more that we can do.
Our trustees are committed to tackling barriers that prevent people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds from enjoying an active lifestyle.
To achieve our goals, we need a board of trustees who are as diverse as the people we're trying to reach.
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Paul was until 2023 a GP partner, and is now a portfolio GP, living and working in Hampshire. He had been working in Sutton Scotney until 2020, and then had become the senior clinical partner at The Adelaide Medical Centre in Andover, after they handed their contract back to the NHS in 2020. These roles have given him the opportunity to improve the health of his patients. He is a GP trainer and was a GP appraiser.
Paul also continues as the Chair of the Diabetes Programme Board for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System. Paul hopes to bring health knowledge to the Energise Me board.
In his spare time, he is a keen cyclist and sees the huge health benefits that any activity brings to the lives of all people. If movement were a tablet, we would all be taking it.
He is very keen to support Energise Me in their quest to make people more active.
Senior Independent Director and our Safeguarding Lead, Steven is a Chartered Management Accountant and an experienced business consultant. He works with public and private sector clients to implement large change programmes within their organisations.
Steven is an experienced Trustee. He served on the Board of one of the first sports clubs to move to Charitable Incorporated Organisation status. More recently, he has served as a Trustee for a CIO that supports and promotes community participation in healthy recreation and the arts.
A Saints football fan, Steven enjoys watching them play as well as volunteering with their community foundation.
Shakiba is the co-owner of Move Training Centre and is currently a Sport Psychology doctoral student and research associate at the University of Portsmouth, where she has graduated with a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology. Alongside her studies, Shakiba has competed in amateur boxing at the elite level, and has competed in various adventure ultra-running events. Shakiba is also the co-owner of a training facility in Southampton, called Move Training Centre, and has worked extensively with the community to ensure women over the age of 55+ are involved in physical activity in a safe and welcoming space. Her work with the community aimed to tackle health issues such as arthritis and obesity by means of physical activity.
Shakiba is extremely passionate about helping the asylum seekers and refugee population by engaging them in sports and physical activity. She believes this population requires urgent attention as the sense of displacement can lead to experiencing symptoms of various mental health disorders. Participation in sports and physical activity enables this population to feel part of something, whilst simultaneously meeting new people and becoming familiar with the culture, environment and language of a new country.
Sam is an experienced career coach and business consultant with a background of working at a senior level in financial services.
Regarded as a strategic and pragmatic thinker, Sam brings her knowledge of managing sustainable Compliance, Risk and Governance frameworks in organisations, particularly through periods of increasing regulation. More recently, Sam’s focuses her time toward supporting people from all backgrounds to successfully navigate transitions when at pivotal points in their careers. In this work, Sam draws on university-accredited coaching training and leadership practices to help people thrive, both personally and professionally.
Sam enjoys long-distance walking and swimming and is an avid outdoor enthusiast. She’s a huge advocate of the benefits that activity has on mental health and is a Mental Health First Aider. Sam is delighted to support Energise Me in giving people the opportunity to get active.
Heather is the Director for Population and Health Equity with Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (HIOW Healthcare), a community and mental health provider serving the same population that Energise Me supports. She has over fifteen years’ experience of working in senior and board strategic leadership roles within the NHS, eight of which have been in Hampshire. She is passionate about working in partnership with communities to support health and well-being and to address health inequity.
Heather values sport and activity in her family time and spends much of her weekend on the side of sports pitches watching her children. She also finds time to play football, cycle and walk whenever she gets the opportunity and has enthusiastically taken on an allotment.
Helen brings over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and currently works in the healthcare sector, where she focuses on customer experience, change management, and governance in highly regulated environments. She is passionate about making healthcare more accessible and equitable, with a strong commitment to driving proactive support that leads to measurable social impact.
Outside of her professional work, Helen has been involved in athletics since childhood. She is a founding member and committee member of Hatch Warren Runners in Basingstoke, where she actively contributes to building a supportive and inclusive running community.
As an England Athletics Leader in Running Fitness, Helen shares her love of running by mentoring individuals at all stages of their fitness journey—from first-time runners to marathon finishers. She firmly believes in the transformative power of physical activity for both mental and physical wellbeing and has witnessed its life-changing effects firsthand.
Tim is a qualified chartered accountant, the owner of a regulated investment management company, an experienced investor and non-executive director.
Tim is passionate about sport participation, particularly amongst children. He has been junior chair of Winchester Hockey Club for the last 5 years during which time he has led the club to certification as an England Hockey Talent Centre and to establish a thriving outreach programme in the local community. He coaches various hockey teams. He is also a keen sports participant, turning his hand to a range of activities including cycling, running, squash and golf.
Gareth is the founder-owner of a management consultancy practice specialising in Technology, Media and Telecommunications. With 30 years’ experience of global roles in the Corporate sector, advising on strategy, M&A and operations. He brings commercial and technical insight to the Board.
Outside of work, he enjoys watching, playing and coaching Football, and leads outdoor wilderness pursuits in the UK and Scandinavia for UKBushcraft.
Marc is an entrepreneur and senior HR and reward specialist with over 25 years’ experience working at board and executive level across public and private sectors. He has worked for major organisations including British American Tobacco, Reuters, Centrica and Lloyds Banking Group, and advised boards at Southern Water and the government sponsored Reclaim Fund. He is also a Governor at Peter Symonds Sixth Form College, Winchester. Marc shares real-world insight into leadership, entrepreneurship and careers in business and professional services. He also co-authored “Hr for Small Business for Dummies”.
Laura is a GP by background who has also worked in Public Health, commissioning and the larger health system with over 20 years experience. She currently does three roles in the health service including General Practice. Laura is passionate about people being the architects of their own health and is keen that EnergiseMe facilitates people to do this. Working with the local population she see the consequences of lack of movement and also appreciates the barriers the population face. She feels privileged to help contribute to the charity achieving its goals of a happier, healthier and stronger future for local people.
Mike is a Chartered Accountant, with more than 30 years of experience in the public sector, most of this in local government. He has been involved in football in Hampshire and Surrey for the past 15 years, acting as treasurer to various football clubs in the area, he is also an FA qualified coach.
Mike plays walking football 2-3 times a week and was attracted to Energise Me by the hugely positive impact he has seen on the mental and physical welfare of large numbers of walking footballers playing this relatively new sport. He is keen to support opportunities for people from all communities to participate in whatever form of physical activity works for them.
In line with Sport England’s A Code for Sports Governance, we recruit and engage with people with appropriate diversity, independence, skills, experience and knowledge to take effective decisions that further our organisations’ goals. We demonstrate a strong and public commitment to progressing towards achieving gender parity and greater diversity on our Board.
We aim to have a minimum of 30% of each gender on our Board and greater diversity generally. This includes but is not limited to Black, Asian, minority ethnic (BAME) diversity, and disability.
We are pleased to say that our Board exceeds Sport England’s A Code for Sports Governance target of a minimum of 30%.
Helping us tackle inactivity to boost health and happiness
