Meet the Trainers
We are fortunate to have considerable expertise and knowledge within our own staff team – we also benefit hugely from the broad range of experience we access via our contacts and associates.
Judy Munday
Bushcraft weekend!
Judy Munday has been with the Partnership for 8 years managing our creative arts programmes. Art is a core element of the Partnership’s approach – we know that creativity and the use of the Arts is one of our most successful methods of intervention, working with disadvantaged and vulnerable people who may not otherwise engage. This has been demonstrated time and time again through the depth and variety of our projects over the past few years. Read more …
Patsy Townsend
Patsy’s professional background is twenty years plus spent in the Probation Service as a Probation Officer specialising in work with young offenders and as a development manager focusing on multi-agency partnership initiatives.
She joined the Partnership in 1998 and is currently Director of the Partnership. As well as leading the team, her other key role within the Partnership is to direct all our Early Interventions initiatives. A key strand of work within this is the The Family Matters programme which supports the complex needs of vulnerable families with a family member in prison. Read more …
Julia Worms
Julia has some fifteen years experience in the field of domestic violence, working with a variety of voluntary and statutory sector projects during that time. Originally she worked in service development in the Thames Valley informing best practice, developing risk and case management and promoting early intervention and prevention work. She has experience across a range of multi-agency responses and strategy development Read more …
Dr Sam Wright
Sam has worked primarily as a social researcher for the past twenty years. Starting as a PhD student and part-time lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, she then took up a Research Fellow post at Manchester Metropolitan University. After five years at MMU, she was offered a job commissioning social research for the civil service. She left that post in 2000, to start working for Nacro – initially as a project development consultant, and later becoming a Research and Evaluation Manager. Read more …
John Hedge
John ‘s background is in Probation working in a range of settings for many years in London and the Thames Valley. He joined the Thames Valley Partnership in 2003 on secondment from probation and managed a number of projects including work on alcohol, anti-social behaviour, and community engagement. Read more …
