The UK Team

UK Staff

Tom Dannatt Tom founded SCoSL and leads the organisation on a day-to-day basis - alongside the specialist recruitment business he has run since 2002, JohnsonMagill. Tom is ultimately responsible for all aspects of the organisation's performance - the project work in Sierra Leone, fund-raising and charity administration. He travels to Sierra Leone regularly and is in touch with our work in the field most days. Tom holds a MSc in Human Rights and is also a qualified barrister. Please contact Tom at any time either on 020 7614 7690 or tom@street-child.co.uk

Megan Lees-McCowan

Megan is Street Child's Charity Manager. She joined on a permanent, full-time basis in October 2011 from a fundraising and communications role at the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative. Megan graduated from Cambridge with a French and German degree and has spent 9 months in West Africa over the past few years, working for a radio station in Senegal, a newspaper in Ghana and a secondary school in Togo. Please contact Megan any time - megan@street-child.co.uk  

Jannah Britt-Green

Jannah joined SCoSL in August 2011 and acts as head of events and communications, and also supports our volunteer programmes here and the team in Sierra Leone. She has spent time in Sierra Leone, where her husband has worked in job creation and with hydro-electric projects for the past few years. She holds degrees in the Arts & Communications and has further qualifications in Child Psychology & Ethics. She has worked in marketing, partner relations and has years of experience with different charities, including Orphans kNOw More and the Fairtrade Foundation. She has a passion for Sierra Leone that started when she was 16 and hopes to spend a lot more time there in the future. Please contact Jannah anytime: jannah@street-child.co.uk  

Chloe Brett

Chloe was based in Johnson Magill's office and acted as coordinator for Street Child of Sierra Leone. She spent several months with HANCI in Sierra Leone project planning and evaluating existing work. Here in the UK Chloe looks after a range of Street Child's work including the volunteer scheme and events programme. Please contact Chloe any time - chloe@street-child.co.uk

Trustees

With professional experience and qualifications spanning humanitarian aid, child protection, human rights, international law, UK charity law, NGO work in Sierra Leone, commerce and business administration we believe our board of trustees is strongly placed to provide clear direction, energetic leadership and rigorous over-sight of all of Street Child's activities.

Bart van der Vliet (Chair)

After an eye- and heart-opening visit to Sierra Leone in June 2010, Bart committed himself to the schools building project in Tambakha. He co-leads the rural side of SCoSL and continues to keep practically involved in SL projects. In the UK he applies his professional skills to supporting finance, governance and fundraising. Based in London since 1998, Bart has extensive experience in leading global change projects in corporate organisations. In his consulting and coaching work he supports (business) leaders from international organisations to achieve personal, social and organisational transformation. Bart is a qualified chartered accountant and ICF accredited executive coach.

Lucinda Dannatt

Lucinda plays a key role advising across all aspects of our operations. Lucinda adds particular expertise in her professional capacity as a barrister specialising in criminal, international and human rights law. She has worked for the United Nations in the Hague and Kosovo, the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber in Sarajevo, the European Court of Human Rights & most recently the Ministry of Justice in London.  

Pamela Dow

Pamela Dow is an Adviser to the Department for Education. A civil servant since 2007, in her previous career as a lobbyist she worked both as a private sector consultant and for a national children's charity. In December 2009 she volunteered on the Makeni project and looks forward to returning to see the the children and families she met through Street Child of Sierra Leone. Pamela also sits on the Board of the Directory of Social Change, a provider of information and training for the voluntary and community sector.  

David Lloyd

David is a curate at St Marys Hampton. David previously worked in the City as a solicitor in the Private Individuals Division of Penningtons Solicitors LLP. There he specialised in advising trustees and executors in both the charitable and non-charitable sector. The Board is greatly strengthened by David's knowledge and experience of charity law and his passion for the causes of the charity.

Alex Scott-Barrett

Alex Scott-Barrett is a qualified chartered accountant and spent 25 years working in the financial sector in London. He is currently a non executive director of a number of companies and trustee and treasurer of 5 charities