Our Board of Trustees has six members, each with a specific interest and expertise in issues affecting the lgbt communities.
Sarah Carr
Sarah is a Research Analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) leading on some of the organisation's service user and carer participation projects. She is on the Executive Committee of the Social Perspectives Network (SPN), an independent mental health organisation affiliated to SCIE and NIMHE, a member of the INVOLVE standing group and is active within the European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. Sarah has also worked for the National Institute for Social Work, Oxleas NHS Trust and at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health where she researched and co-edited a practice manual on developing assertive outreach and home treatment services. Alongside her professional interest lies Sarah's personal interest in mental health, as she is a service user herself. She has recently written a chapter entitled ‘The sickness label infected everything we said’: Lesbian and Gay Perspectives on Mental Distress that appears in Social Perspectives in Mental Health: Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress, edited by Jerry Tew.
Maxine Holdsworth
Maxine has been a PACE trustee for 4 years. She is the Head of Sustainability at Islington Local Authority. She previously worked as a senior policy analyst at the National Consumer Council, an advocacy organisation that conducts research, analyses policy and campaigns for change and at Lasa (the London Advice Services Alliance) coordinating and developing policy for voluntary sector advice organisations campaigning on social welfare law issues, social exclusion and regeneration. She sees Pace as delivering essential services in a positive, professional and compassionate way to lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in London, and is proud to be a trustee.
Andrew Moffatt (Chair)
Andrew has been a trustee at PACE since August 2005 and is currently Head of Fundraising and Communications at Coram Family, the UK’s oldest charity working with vulnerable children, young people and their families. Andrew has been working in fundraising for over 15 years in the charitable sector including mental health, homelessness, drugs and alcohol and HIV/AIDS. Andrew is particularly interested in the excellent and innovative ways the voluntary sector can work positively with “excluded groups” to bring about real change. He has an MA in Gender Society & Culture centred specifically on the gay and lesbian experience. He was also a Trustee of Streetwise Youth and sat on the Pan London HIV/AIDS Consortium.
Andrew Truby
Andrew was coopted to PACE's Board in January 2006. He is a practising solicitor working in the field of medical regulation law. He lives in south London and has recently fathered a child with a lesbian couple;so over the coming months expects to be busy both with learning more about how PACE operates as well as discovering the ups and downs of gay fatherhood! He was inspired to become involved in PACE by a close friend who had had a very affirming and positive experience on one of the gay men's workshops.
Marcus Gottlieb
Marcus joined the board in October 2006, a few months after graduating from a 9 year training in humanistic, existential and formative psychology. This was also the year in which he held a civil partnership ceremony with Pei, who is from Singapore. Marcus has done volunteer counselling with ChildLine, Victim Support and the Domestic Violence Intervention Project. In his private psychotherapy practice Marcus is committed to exploring with compassion the experience of detachment, separation and isolation which affect many LGB people and others. He finds particularly moving and satisfying his work with gay men who went to boarding school, an underestimated source of emotional deprivation and intimacy difficulties. Marcus worked throughout the 90s as a solicitor.
Kate Husselbee
Kate joined the Board of PACE in October 2006. She is currently Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development at The Health Foundation, an independent charitable foundation working to improve the quality of healthcare across the UK. Prior to this Kate worked for various charities and universities including The London School of Economics and CSV (Community Service Volunteers). Kate is a keen champion of equality and is currently leading a diversity initiative at The Health Foundation. Her association and contact with PACE, prior to becoming a trustee, was through friends who had used the service and she was very impressed with the support that it provided for them. Kate lives in North London with her partner.
