Meet our team
ROBES STAFF
Lisa Moodie
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Lisa has worked in the charity sector for over 30 years, both in Australia and the UK. She is passionate about supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged people, with an aim to empower others to lead fulfilling and independent lives.
Lisa has supported people in various sectors, including the areas of: disability, migrant & refugees, and children & young people. Lisa has worked in the homeless sector since 2017. Before coming to Robes, she worked in homelessness prevention, and in rough sleeper outreach, coordinating teams throughout much of South West London.
Alex Hagi-Georgiou
ADVICE WORKER
Alex has over 18 years experience working with within floating support services, hostels and supported housing settings. His specialties are complex needs, ex-convicts, mental health and substance misuse, including crisis management.
Alex has a person centred approach, and a strong understanding of service user involvement. He is adept at managing challenging behaviour, and has managed to gain our guests trust quickly.
Charity Fashesin
Fundraising manager
Charity is an experienced fundraiser with a strong track record of supporting organisations that work with vulnerable and marginalised communities. She has raised funds for charities serving refugees and migrants, young people, and individuals experiencing homelessness, helping to secure the resources needed for vital frontline services.
Charity is passionate about supporting people to live safe, stable lives with dignity. This commitment underpins her work.
Macey Osei-Kissi
INTERIM SHELTER COORDINATOR
Macey has extensive experience in operational coordination, planning and support. She was an administrator across several GP’s in the Southwark borough during the pandemic, where her excellent organisational skills assisted in maintaining the smooth running of patient facing and back-office operations. Prior to this Macey was a support worker for individuals with learning disabilities and autism, where she led group activity programmes to support service users to gain independence, and assisted with personal care activities.
Macey has a particular interest in mental health and wellbeing. She also has a degree in Fine Art and does painting commissions in her spare time.
Natalie Blackwood
ADVICE WORKER
Natalie has 20+ years experience working with young people and adults with complex needs in supported accommodation settings, day services and through floating support within the community.
She also has a person centred approach, and a firm understanding of service user involvement. Natalie works hard to ensure that those facing inequalities are acknowledged and supported.
Position Filled
Admin & Communications
With a degree in Business and Marketing, our Admin Assistant supports the team whilst also managing our communications and website, and has been helpful as we’ve transitioned to a new website host and new data management system. She has a knack for spreadsheets and data entry, and makes sure we are recording the goings on of Robes. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering within her own local community.
ROBES TRUSTEES
Andrew McCall
CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
Andrew takes up this role following 12 years in the NHS where his focus of work was to deliver more and better care to residents of Central London via communities and community organisations. During the COVID pandemic he set up and managed community vaccination clinics in Westminster staffed largely by volunteer cohorts where they vaccinated more than 1,000 people not registered with GP practices, including many without residential paperwork.
He served two terms as Elected Governor for Southwark residents at Kings College Hospital, and was a Non Executive Director of Southwark Cathedral Enterprises.
Andrew has sung tenor with chamber choir Esterhazy Singers of London for 15 years, including joyful performances in Southwark Cathedral and in Lambeth.
He is a Founder of Glengall Wharf Garden in Peckham which continues its work to offer therapeutic outdoor work and support to a wide spectrum of Southwark residents.
Asad Ansari
TREASURER
Asad is a UK qualified Chartered Accountant with over 40 years diverse experience primarily in the banking industry, covering areas such as business development and management, regulatory relations, audit, finance and risk management. Asad has a strong commitment to tackle homelessness and feels strongly that it is a human right to live in a home and not on the streets.
George O’Neill
TRUSTEE
George is Chief Executive of the Cardinal Hume Centre. The Centre works with young people and families facing homelessness in Westminster. George’s professional background is in communications, where he held senior advisory and leadership roles in the homelessness sector, higher education and Government.
His wife Gill is the Vicar of St John’s East Dulwich, one of Robes’ host churches.
Juanita Fan
TRUSTEE
Juanita has been a committed volunteer for Southwark Cathedral for more than nine years and serves as a member of the Cathedral’s Guild of Stewards as well as an independent member of the Cathedral’s Audit & Risk Committee. Having volunteered at the Christchurch Blackfriars night shelter last winter, Juanita felt called to join the Board of Trustees when an opening arose. She has previously served as a Trustee for Link Age Southwark and Lambeth & Southwark Mind. Following a career change, Juanita now works in corporate governance as an Assistant Company Secretary and lives in Southwark.
Mark Banham
TRUSTEE
Mark has worked in the vulnerable and homeless sector for around twenty years or more, as a support worker in Europe’s largest homeless hostel; a social entrepreneur, having set up and ran a gardening charity and peer social club which supported hundreds of people across London and Kent, and volunteered with various homeless charities across London.
As an individual, Mark has lived experience as someone who was once homeless and lived in a homeless hostel for a spell.
His life experiences have afforded him a passion for his peers who may have also found themselves homeless and with varying morbid conditions.
In his own time, he enjoys cooking, visiting art galleries, walking, exercising, reading and listening to live music.
Mary Ollard
TRUSTEE
Mary has led the Robes night shelter team in Herne Hill for several years, as well as volunteering at other venues. She became a trustee for Robes in October 2025.
After a career in Parliamentary administration Mary now uses her time for voluntary activities, including as chair of governors of a small primary school.
She enjoys travel, reading fiction, and standing in shafts of sunlight. Mary and her husband are regular members of the congregation at Southwark Cathedral.
Matthew Hanney
TRUSTEE
Matthew has volunteered at the St John the Divine, Kennington, shelter for ten years and lived in Lambeth for fifteen years. He is a Partner at the Business Advisory company Flint Global, and previously worked in government and parliament.
Sam Forsdike
TRUSTEE
Sam is a documentary maker, producing and directing content through his company, Postcard.
He spent nine years working in homelessness in Camden where he managed move-ons into housing and employment for guests of a winter shelter. He currently volunteers with Home From Home, a hosting scheme where spare rooms are matched with those in need of short term accommodation to help them move on from homelessness.
Wendy Thompson
TRUSTEE
Wendy has been a committed volunteer for St Michael’s Church Stockwell for over seven years and a Trustee since 2013. Wendy is enthusiastic and a good networker, driven because she knows that compassion, love and professionalism mixed with respect and dignity transform the lives of both guests and the volunteers. She is kept busy juggling her voluntary commitments with being a mother of two small children while teaching at a Montessori School.
Nick Hodgson
SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Nick has been Secretary to the Trustees since August 2022, and he and his wife have been shelter volunteers at St John the Divine, Kennington since Robes began in 2007/8. He spent 35 years as a government lawyer and in his retirement is also Church Council Secretary at St John’s, Clerk to the Governors of St Gabriel’s College, and Secretary of an Amnesty International local group.
PATRONS
Adjoa Andoh MBE
PATRON
Adjoa Andoh MBE is an actor, writer, director, with a career spanning 4 decades.
As an actor she is currently best known for playing Lady Danbury in Bridgerton and in its prequel Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton story, for which she is a 4-time nominee at the NAACP Awards.
In a career of almost 40 years, Adjoa has had lead roles at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court Theatre, Young Vic, The Kiln, and in 2019, she conceived, co-directed and played the lead in Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in the UK’s first all women-of-colour production. 2023 saw Adjoa direct, co-produce and play the lead in a new theatre production of William Shakespeare’s Richard lll for Liverpool Playhouse and The Rose Theatre Kingston – also now a film.
Adjoa made her Hollywood debut in 2009, starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood’s Nelson Mandela biographical film Invictus.
She is an award-winning audiobook narrator with over 250 titles to her credit and has worked as an actor/writer/mentor in BBC radio drama since the 1980’s.
Adjoa is co-director of production company SwingingTheLens. She was the Cameron Mackintosh visiting Professor of Contemporary Drama (22/23) at Oxford University, where she is currently Professor Emeritus at St Catherine’s College. Adjoa is an associate artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Shakespeare Association of America and the British Shakespeare Association.
The Right Reverend Christopher Chessun
PATRON
Christopher has been the Bishop of Southwark since 2011 and before that was an Area Bishop in the Diocese of Southwark from 2005. He is particularly concerned for the quality of life of those who live in urban areas and he was Bishop for Urban Life and Faith from May 2010 until 2013. He is President of the Association for Promoting Retreats and has taken young people from the Diocese of Southwark on pilgrimage to Taize, France, in recent years.
In 2011 he launched ‘Faith, Hope, Love – Bishop Christopher’s Call to Mission’ and through this he has encouraged individuals and communities to consider how best they can serve their neighbourhoods and show the faith, hope and love that we find in Jesus Christ to others. At Pentecost this year Bishop Christopher’s Call to Mission drew to a close giving rise to Hearts on Fire, the next phase of his vision for the Diocese of Southwark and its work. Bishop Christopher continues to give strong support to the Robes Sleepout at Southwark Cathedral in providing shelter for the homeless and raising funds for the project. He is delighted to be Patron of the Robes Project and shares its belief that we can make a difference in the lives of many people.
Roger Royle
PATRON
Although now retired Roger Royle has spent the past 52 years as priest, a broadcaster, a journalist and an author. As a priest he has served the Church of England in parishes, schools, and a cathedral. As a broadcaster he has appeared on both television and radio mainly with the BBC, the twenty nine years he spent doing Pause for Thought on Terry Wogan’s breakfast show being one of the highlights.
Over the years Roger has been associated with many different charities but he is very honoured to be asked to become a patron. “Sadly more and more people are needing shelter for the night, a good meal and the hand of friendship but it is great to see Christians in Southwark and Lambeth responding to that need. After all it is no good being so full of heavenly thoughts if you are no earthly use”.
Right Honourable Sir Simon Hughes
PATRON
Simon is the newest Patron of the Robes Project. After studying law and practising as a barrister Simon entered the political arena. He has held various political roles including Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice and the Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and other parts of the north of the Borough of Southwark for over 32 years. Simon also served as a frontbench spokesperson on many subjects including education, energy, environment, health and home affairs. Simon has a keen interest in human rights and asylum, co-authoring a variety of publications on the subject. In 2015 he was awarded a knighthood for his political and public service. Simon is currently involved in numerous community projects in Southwark as a Trustee and Patron.