Staff A-Z
We are the Active Together Core Team, your local network and support team for physical activity and sport across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
Want to join our passionate and hardworking team? Opportunities will be listed in our Job Finder!
For the residents of Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland: Along with our partners, we are here to support you on your journey to being healthier, happier by moving more in your own way.
For our Partners: We are here to support partners who share an ambition to help the communities of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland to reap the benefits of a more physically active life.
Please get in touch to see how we can help you.
Shabnam Aftab
Finance & Grant Management Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
Please note that my working days are Monday, Tuesday & Thursday.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Financial Management & Compliance
- Grant Management
- Telephone
- 01509 467471
- s.aftab@active-together.org
Lucy Betts
Development Manager
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Steady Steps (Falls Prevention)
- Active Tots (Professional) / Active Tots
- Social Prescribing
- Place based support for Blaby/Oadby & Wigston/Harborough/Leicestershire & Rutland
- Supporting people with long term health conditions
When I'm not working - I'm walking the dog, out with family and friends (eating or drinking) or playing the odd bit of netball
Favourite Sporting Moment – Dame Kelly Holmes winning her double gold medal at Athens in 2004
- Telephone
- 01509 467472
- l.betts@active-together.org
Anita Bird
Assistant Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
Please note that my working days are Monday-Thursday.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Inspire
- Active Lives Survey
- Creating Active Schools
- Place based support for Charnwood
- Supporting lower socio economic groups
When I'm not working - I love walking my dog, swimming and group exercise and have started playing Tennis again after 50 years !!!
Favourite Sporting Moment – The year Torvill and Dean won Ice dancing at the winter Olympics 1984
- Telephone
- 01509 467473
- a.bird@active-together.org
Emily Booth
Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
Please note that my working days are Monday-Thursday.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Active Mums Club
- Place based support for Harborough
- Supporting people with long term health conditions
When I am not working - When I am not working I love going on days out with my daughters and exploring, getting together with friends for food and Sunday night movie night.
Favourite quote - 'No one is you and that is your super power.'
- Telephone
- 01509 467474
- e.booth@active-together.org
John Byrne
Active Partnership Director
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Strategic Management & Business Planning
- Key Stakeholder Liaison
- Financial Management & Compliance
Favourite Sporting Moment – On my birthday being at Anfield to watch the famous Glasgow Celtic beat Liverpool 2-0 on their way to the UEFA cup final , and getting a text during the match to tell me that my niece had been born.
Favourite Quote/Motto – "Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination" - Nelson Mandela
- Telephone
- 01509 467475
- Mobile
- 07860 354173
- j.byrne@active-together.org
Ali Clements
Strategic Lead
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Business of Sport Network
- Sport & Economy Growth Plan
- Premier Sporting Location
- Place based support for Leicester City
- Supporting ethnically diverse communities
- Telephone
- 01509 467476
- Mobile
- 07785 766644
- a.clements@active-together.org
Teresa Dalby
Business Support Manager
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- General Enquiries / PA to Director
- Office Management
- Financial Administration
- Our Courses and Workshops
- Telephone
- 01509 467500
- t.dalby@active-together.org
Emelie Denham
Assistant Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My area and responsibilities are:
- Opening School Facilities Programme
- Inspire - Develop - Excel
- Place based support for Blaby/Oadby & Wigston
- Supporting people with long term health conditions
When I'm not working you can find me playing, coaching and refereeing rugby at my local club.
Favourite Sporting Moment – Playing American Football in Finland with the Birmingham Lions
- Telephone
- 01509 467480
- e.denham@active-together.org
Josh Denham-Swift
Marketing & Communications Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Programme, Website, Social Media & E-Comms Support
- Let's Get Moving
Favourite Sporting Moment – Didier Drogba's winning penalty in the Champions League Final against Bayern Munich in 2012.
Favourite Quote/Moment – "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" – Babe Ruth
- Telephone
- 01509 467478
- j.denham-swift@active-together.org
Jenny Gaunt
Assistant Development Officer
Active Together
My areas of responsibility are:
- Steady Steps Support
- Active Tots Support
- Live Longer Better
- Place based support for Hinckley & Bosworth
- Supporting local socio economic groups
When I am not working- I enjoy being outside in the sun, socialising with friends and booking last minute holidays.
Favourite physical activity moment- In 2010 I performed in a show called Mardi Gras at Disneyland Paris. It was a fantastic experience and when I wasn't performing, I was able to explore the parks with my friends and family.
- Telephone
- 01509 467497
- j.gaunt@active-together.org
Luke Green
Development Manager
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Developing People
- Graduate Programme
- Place based support for Leicester City
- Supporting ethnically diverse communities
Favourite Quote/Motto - "You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be." Freddy Mercury
Favourite Sporting Moment Watching the 1997 British and Irish Lions win the test series against South Africa who were the current world champions at the time. It was great to sit with my old man watching the home nations come together to achieve something amazing.
- Telephone
- 01509 467479
- l.green@active-together.org
Lizzi Hall
Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
Please note my working days are Monday & Tuesday.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Running and Walking Programme
- Support Organisations/Funding Support
- Place based support for Charnwood
- Supporting lower socio economic groups
Favourite Sporting Moment - It has to be 'Super Saturday' at the London 2012 Olympic Games – so many gold medals and such an exciting day for British sport!
Hero or Heroine - David Weir – an incredibly talented and determined Paralympic athlete and a role model to people both with and without a disability.
- Telephone
- 01509 467481
- l.hall@active-together.org
Noel Haines
Strategic Lead / Assistant Director
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Strategic Management & Business Planning
- Key Stakeholder Liaison
- Financial Management & Compliance
- Safeguarding Lead
- Telephone
- 01509 467482
- Mobile
- 07702 698759
- n.haines@active-together.org
Gillian Haluch
Sport Welfare Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or on the phone number provided:
- Place based support for Leicester City
- Supporting ethnically diverse communities
- Telephone
- 01509 467491
- g.haluch@active-together.org
Nada Hankin
Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Opening School Facilities Programme
- Active Environments, Design & Healthy Places
- Playing Pitch & Planning Policy, Guidance, Strategies
- Place based support for Leicester City
- Supporting ethnically diverse communities
When I'm not working - I'm taking long walks with my friendly little dog, Mo. If I'm not walking, I love a CrossFit workout and cooking for family and friends.
Favourite Quote/Motto – Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day – Dalai Lama
- Telephone
- 01509 467485
- n.hankin@active-together.org
Andrew Harris
Development Manager
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
Specialist Physical Activity Programmes for people living with long term health conditions
Place based support for Charnwood, Hinckley & Bosworth, Melton & North West Leicestershire
- Supporting lower socio economic groups
Hero's – "Michael J Fox. Despite living with Parkinson's he has spent the last two decades raising over $1billion for research to one day find a cure. His resilience and dedication to a cause despite adversity is truly inspiring. From a purely sporting context it has to be record Tour de France stage winner Sir Mark Cavendish KBE"
Favourite Quote/Motto – "Roads, where we're going, we don't need roads" Doc Brown
- Telephone
- 01509 467483
- a.harris@active-together.org
Jess Hazell
Insight Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Understanding People and Place
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- LLR Girl Can - (Women's Health, This Girl Can, Active Menopause)
- Place based support for Rutland
- Supporting people with long term health conditions
When I'm not working - I'm at Loughborough University athletics track, training for the 400m. I've been an athlete for 13 years, and love exploring different parts of the world whilst competing.
Favourite Sporting Moment – Derek Redmond at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. After tearing his hamstring in the 400m semi-final, Derek's father ran from the stands to help him and they both finished the race together. It always makes me cry!
- Telephone
- 01509 467486
- j.hazell@active-together.org
Georgia James
Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Active Medicine
- Physical Activity and Health Projects
- Place based support for Harborough
- Supporting people with long term health conditions
When I'm not working – When I'm not working you can find me at the CrossFit box, socialising with friends and family or planning my next holiday in the sun.
Favourite Quote/Motto – "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of different you want to make"- Jane Goodall
- Telephone
- 01509 467487
- g.james@active-together.org
Annette Kendrick
Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
Please note that my working days are Tuesday-Thursday.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Supporting Organisations
- Funding Advice Service
- Place Based support for Hinckley & Bosworth
- Supporting lower socio economic groups
When I'm not working - I'm busy running around after my two daughters and trying my best to make it to the gym twice a week!
Favourite quote / moto - Regret what you do, not what you don't – or you'll always be wondering what if.
- Telephone
- 01509 467488
- a.kendrick@active-together.org
Geoff Maltby
Active Together
Strategic Lead
I am currently remote working, so please contact me via email/mobile phone (where provided).
My areas of responsibility are:
- Supporting Children & Young People
- Primary Sport Premium Advisor
- School Sport & Physical Activity Network (SSPAN) Development
- Strategic Management & Business Planning
- Place based support for Charnwood, Hinckley & Bosworth, Melton & North West Leicestershire
- Supporting lower socio economic groups
- Telephone
- 01509 467489
- Mobile
- 07355925673
- g.maltby@active-together.org
Jayne Maltby
Marketing & Communications Officer
Active Together - Currently on Maternity Leave
I am currently remote working, so please contact me via email/mobile phone (where provided).
My areas of responsibility are:
- Programme Marketing & Communications
- Websites and Social Media Management
- Branding and PR
- E-Comms
When I'm not working - When I'm not working I'm normally out and about with my family, watching sport and walking our dog.
Quote - Run your own race.
- Telephone
- 01509 467490
- j.maltby@active-together.org
Chantè Parker
Assistant Marketing & Insight Officer
Active Together
I am currently remote working, so please contact me via email/mobile phone (where provided).
My areas of responsibility are:
- Insight & Research Project Support
- Website & Social Media Support
- Insight Hub
- Telephone
- 01509 467498
- c.parker@active-together.org
Leanne Plummer
Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Active Pregnancy Programme / Active Mums Club
- Place based support for Blaby/Oadby & Wigston, Supporting people with long term health conditions
When I'm not working - You can find me walking my lovely Labrador, playing my trumpet or cornet in a number of different bands, playing softball or hockey, spotting trains, or watching football or rugby on TV.
Sporting Hero – Despite being a Welsh rugby fan, I believe the best professional to have played the game is England Fly Half, Jonny Wilkinson. His approach and mentality to the game inspired so many in the world of sport to search for marginal gains on and off the pitch.
- Telephone
- 01509 467492
- l.plummer@active-together.org
Kate Scott
Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Telephone
- 01 509 467484
- k.scott@active-together.org
Jo Spokes
Strategic Lead
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Physical Activity & Wellbeing Development Lead
- Strategic Management & Business Planning
- Key Stakeholder Liaison
- Place based support for Blaby/Oadby & Wigston, Harborough, Leicestershire & Rutland
- Supporting people with long term health conditions
- Telephone
- 01509 467493
- Mobile
- 07795 603336
- j.spokes@active-together.org
Leonie Schofield
Marketing & Communications Officer
Active Together
I am currently remote working, so please contact me via email/mobile phone (where provided).
Please note my working days are Monday-Thursday AM.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Programme Marketing & Communications
- Websites and Social Media Management
- Branding and PR
- E-Comms
- Telephone
- 01509 467490
- l.schofield@active-together.org
Dave Stock
Strategic Relationships Manager
Active Together
I am currently remote working, so please contact me via email/mobile phone (where provided).
My areas of responsibility are:
- Local Strategy, Development & Alignment
- Local Delivery & National Programmes
- Design Alignment
- Telephone
- 01509 467494
- Mobile
- 07887855687
- d.stock@active-together.org
Leandra Whelband
Development Officer
Active Together
I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.
My areas of responsibility are:
- Holidays Together - Holiday Activities & Food Programme
- Place based support for Melton
- Supporting lower socio economic groups
- Telephone
- 01509 467495
- l.whelband@active-together.org