Our people

Lucy is a qualified psychotherapist, trained in integrative, systemic and family therapy. She is passionate about nurturing the well-being and potential of young people and bringing a new creativity, emotional intelligence and inspiration to the fields of education and youth work.

Lotty joined LIFEbeat after 12 years in the International Development Sector. After working in Peru for Kiya Survivors, a charity supporting children with special needs, she joined ActionAid where she worked as both Campaigner and Project Manager. She has a background in art and drama.

Ana joined LIFEbeat as intern in 2015 and found the organisation to be the perfect fit for a combination of her personal and professional goals. She graduated from Seville University with a degree in Psychology. She has a passion for music and musical theatre and performs with amateur companies in her spare time.  Ana brings clarity; experience and a wonderful spirit to this work.

Sola is strongly committed to inspiring and motivating young people to develop ‘Creative Confidence’ in fulfilment of their own potential. As an educator and community worker his professional experience includes many years Programme Leading and Management at Haringey Youth and Community Arts charity, plus Learning Mentoring and small group teaching, working with ‘challenging’ young people in in both primary and secondary schools: Sola draws on over a decade of international delivery as a Creative Facilitator, professional storyteller and cultural arts practitioner in his craft: to co-create impactful personal growth group experiences for the young people and adults that LIFEbeat serves.

Kitty studied English at Edinburgh University and began her career as an arts journalist. In 2011 she became the Assistant Editor at IdeasTap.com, a youth-focused organisation helping young people to find pathways into the creative industries. She helped IdeasTap to form working partnerships with The Old Vic New Voices Program and The National Youth Theatre. Having fallen in love with youth-focused work, Kitty took the role of Head of Digital at Partners for Youth Empowerment, where she worked for 3 years helping to create an online network for partners around the world. At LIFEbeat Kitty takes the role of Partnerships and Outreach Manager, helping to grow the organisation’s connection with local and national youth-serving organisations.

My journey with LIFEbeat taught me how to be a leader and a role model for young people. I learnt how to lead my own workshops and how to plan and deliver a creative community project. The best thing about LIFEbeat is forever being connected, even after camps the support continues.

LIFEbeat is an opportunity to truly be yourself. It allows you to open up to people you barely knew a few days ago and enjoy things you’d normally be embarrassed to engage in. Most importantly, it’s fun!

Being a peer mentor last summer made me feel more powerful within myself. It made me feel great to be giving back to the world. I am hoping this program will help me to grow more as a youth worker and gain a level of confidence that stays forever.

I’ve always envisioned a world in which everyone can smile at each other and break bread around a giant table. A community filled with compassion and attention. Through LIFEbeat I have been given the opportunity to help create this vision. As a peer mentor I was able to see positive change in myself and evoke the same in others which to date, stands to be the greatest feeling in my life. To give back is to receive.

I believe you should take risks even if you don’t think you will succeed! Life’s too short to be afraid to walk the tight rope when everything you wanted is on the other side. Yeah, it’s scary and yeah you might fall and get bruised but if you want it enough, you’ve just got to dust yourself off and start again. Don’t dream your life, live your dreams.

I really enjoy being LIFEbeat staff because it allows me to take on more responsibility. Through LIFebeat I have gained more connections, love, friendship, experience, creativity and leadership skills. I would love to use LIFEbeat skills to learn to run better workshops. LIFEbeat has taught me the value of being myself.

Being a staff member has made me realise that a LOT goes into creating a very special week away. It has made me understand why we do things the way we do and how I can bring the LIFEbeat factor to my local community. There’s method to this madness!

LIFEbeat has taught me how to transition from being a young person on camp to being a member of staff and how to change my mindset towards camp, thinking in the way a member of staff should. It has also taught me some key skills for working with young people. If I could tell the world one thing I would say live, love, learn.

I believe positivity breeds happiness. On the Peer Mentor Programme I learnt that to be a great leader you just have to be yourself and be true to who you are. I learnt how to be more confident in myself and how to pay attention to my surroundings and the people around me in order to cater to their needs.

Becoming LIFEbeat staff helped me gain facilitation skills and some better youth work experience and community building skills. These have helped me in my current role as an International Exchange coordinator at KORI. I want to be able to build the same loving, creative and strong communities overseas. My larger life plan is to do truly GOOD work so these skills are part of that.

I believe that you should never be afraid to show the world who you really are. One of the many things LIFEbeat has taught me is that you have more fun when you lose your inhibitions and don’t care about what other’s think about you. I’ve become more confident in who I am and what I can do since embarking on this journey with LIFEbeat and I’m happier because of that.

I want to be part of a world where people care. LIFEbeat has played an instrumental part in creating the person I am today. I have such a great sense of family and community from LIFEbeat. I know who I am and what I want from life a lot better and I also feel a little less lost since receiving the love and support that LIFEbeat oozes. I’ve learnt so much and grown so much as a person through my time at LIFEbeat.

If I could travel back in time I would tell my younger self to do everything you’re supposed to do right now! Even though it’s going to be rough and hard you can get through it. Don’t wait for anything. Go and get it.

You’ve got to find people who love you like you do! I struggled a bit with confidence when I was younger and the journey I have been on with LIFEbeat has taught me that life is too short not to be open and to be seen for who you are. It’s also taught me to take risks and to step out of my comfort zone.