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Let’s Talk About Loss is run by a huge team of people – more than we could fit onto this page! With over 80 volunteers keeping everything running smoothly, we’re immensely proud of all our team – get to know them all here!
We have three Advisory Boards that help shape our strategy and ensure we are continuously improving. These three Boards focus on Accessibility, Racial equity and LGBTQ+ inclusivity. You can find out more about them here.
Our Trustees oversee the work of Let’s Talk About Loss and keep us committed to our mission to help young people who are bereaved feel less alone. Let’s Talk About Loss is committed to ensuring that our Board of Trustees is diverse and representative. We support both the Action for Trustee Racial Diversity campaign, and the Young Trustees Movement.
Beth started talking about loss in December 2016, eighteen months after her mum Susan died. In March 2018, she organised the first ever meet up in Nottingham. Beth was feeling alone and confused, and was determined that no other young person who was grieving should feel the same. Aside from Let’s Talk About Loss, Beth works in marketing and loves sewing her own clothes.
Beth is available for talks, workshops and training sessions. Prices start from £100/hour. Please email for more information: hello@letstalkaboutloss.org
Nina joined Let’s Talk About Loss in 2024, and has previously worked with young people and in fairtrade. She loves coffee, taking on a running challenge, and rabbits.
Nina looks after our Host Coordinators. You can email her on hello@letstalkaboutloss.org.
We are very thankful for all of our Trustees. If you’d like to contact them, you can email trustees@letstalkaboutloss.org.
Alwin is a university academic and an experienced healthcare professional with a strong background in clinical practice, education and governance. With many years working in nursing and intensive care, he has supported individuals and families through bereavement, trauma and loss, and brings insights into how grief affects young adults within health and social care contexts.
As a trustee, Alwin is passionate about ensuring Let’s Talk About Loss remains a safe, supportive and impactful peer-led space where young people who are bereaved feel understood and connected. He also volunteers as a councillor in a London borough and has a strong interest in improving local services and the lived experiences of residents. Alwin is a proud dad of two young boys, who are his daily reminder that life is chaotic, loud and unpredictable – but best navigated with a little humour, compassion and reflection.
Amy has been working in charity and higher education campaigns and community building for the past 15 years. She is passionate about connecting with others and working together to find ways to improve people’s lives so the mission of Let’s Talk About Loss is a natural fit.
Amy experienced bereavement in her 20s, losing her brother and mum, and understands what an isolating and difficult experience it is. She is committed to working to make sure that young people who have experienced loss have a way to connect with others and never feel alone.
Callum has been involved with the charity since 2020 as a volunteer meet up host. Through this role, he has supported young adults navigating grief by helping to create welcoming, safe spaces where people can share their experiences at their own pace. He also represented Let’s Talk About Loss through radio and podcast appearances, helping to raise awareness and challenge taboos around bereavement.
Alongside volunteering, Callum works as a renewable energy consultant, bringing his experience in problem solving and long-term thinking. In his spare time you’ll find Callum up walls at the bouldering gym, eating hummus on mountain paths, watching football, or swimming in the sea. He is passionate about ensuring Let’s Talk About Loss continues to grow in a way that is inclusive, supportive, and sustainable.
Elisha currently works as Head of Development at Action Syria, and previously worked for grief charity Winston’s Wish. She is bringing her fundraising experience to the Board to help Let’s Talk About Loss diversify our income streams and build a sustainable funding model as we grow.
Emma has worked in charity fundraising and communications for almost a decade, supporting causes across the UK and internationally, including health, poverty and equality. Informed by her own experiences of bereavement, she is committed to helping create safe spaces where people feel able to talk openly about grief and loss, and to addressing the long-term emotional and practical impacts this can have. As a trustee of Let’s Talk About Loss, Emma looks forward to applying her fundraising expertise to support income growth and long-term sustainability, helping the charity to achieve its strategic goals.
Jon is Co-CEO of Speakers Collective, a not-for-profit community of 250+ lived-experience speakers and Co-founder of social impact agency Byte Entertainment.
Jon’s Dad died by suicide when he was a teenager and not talking about his death later ended up in impacting his own mental health.
As a trustee, Jon’s focus is on creating more opportunities for men to talk about loss. Jon enjoys going to gigs, bit of running and is a very proud Dad of two young people.
Kate spent many years working with young people in a professional capacity in schools and youth work, as well as volunteer pastoral support. Now, she works as a project manager for an environmental campaigning charity and has strong skills in communication, leading teams and getting stuff done.
As a trustee, Kate hopes to keep the board working well together to achieve our charitable objects of supporting every young adult who has been bereaved to talk about their loss. Kate’s most significant loss was her Dad when she was 17 and after not engaging with the minimal support that was available, has since discovered the power and peace of talking about his death and how to keep on keeping on with life.
As well as chair of the board of trustees, Kate is also the trustee sponsor for the LGBTQ+ advisory board.
Kate can be found sea swimming, hiking, or in pyjamas. It’s all about balance, right?
Kirah is an educator, counsellor, project manager and counselling supervisor with extensive experience supporting children, young people, parents and professionals across education and mental health settings. Her background includes consulting organisations with reflections in leadership and programme development. Having experienced close losses, she strives to hold space for grief and loss whilst being a friendly ear. As a new Trustee, Kirah is excited to contribute her skills, curiosity and collaborative spirit, while continuing to grow as a thoughtful leader committed to sustainable, people-centred change.
Latoya has joined Let’s Talk About Loss as our Treasurer Trustee and brings a wealth of finance experience to the Board. She currently works as a Management Accountant at Arts Student Union and will professionalise our finance processes and ensure our funds are spent where the need is greatest.
Our three Advisory Boards help shape the strategic direction of our work, and ensure that we are prioritising inclusion and equitable access to grief support. You can find out more about our Advisory Boards here.
She is currently studying to become a therapist/counsellor. When she isn’t studying she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, often enjoying walks in her local area. She also enjoys creative writing and contributed towards the LTAL book “Letters from the Grief Club” in 2022 sharing the loss of her daughter as well as the LTAL blog.
Alongside our brilliant Hosts and Host Coordinators, who make up a large percentage of our volunteers, we also work with some fantastic people on strategy and creative projects.
Emma worked in NHS management until the death of her Dad provoked a major life shake-up; she is now a writer and mindfulness teacher. She lives in Yorkshire with her husband and two young children, where she enjoys films about time travel and the occasional painting by numbers.
Emma is passionate about breaking the taboo around death and grief – there is huge power in sharing experiences and in realising that you aren’t alone.
Email blog@letstalkaboutloss.org to submit your writing to Emma for review.
Lauren runs our Bereavement Book Club, as well as being one of the Hosts of our Coventry meet up group. You can email Lauren to find out more about the book club via bereavementbookclub@letstalkaboutloss.org.
Rohit is a university lecturer in child nursing and has been a children’s nurse for over 20 years.
Rohit is also the founder of British Sikh Nurses, a community organisation that bridges the gap between the NHS and the South Asian community.
As an Executive Advisory, Rohit aims to open up the conversation around grief and bereavement within the South Asian community by raising awareness and support around loss.
Victoria started campaigning for bereavement support for young people in higher education in 2018 after losing her dad to a Brain tumour at 20 years old. She realised the lack of services and funding behind bereavement as she struggled to get support from her university. After doing radio and tv interviews and conducting key research she influenced the Scottish Government to invest £20 million into support services at colleges and universities. After realising not only her strength in relating to other people going through loss but also that she had natural skills in public speaking and a deep drive to create meaningful work, she has spent the last 6 years supporting various charities and initiatives targeted at grief and cancer care.
From 2019-2021 she was the lead health and wellbeing ambassador for Heriot-Watt University, executing the most successful and highest raising Movember campaign targeted at improving mens mental health. During this time she acted as a STEM ambassador sharing her passion for women in engineering and advocating for children from lower socio-economic backgrounds at schools across the country.
In 2021 Victoria started in a Young Ambassador role for the Brain Tumour Charity, where she held influential engagement sessions in Westminster and Holyrood with MPs, pioneered social media campaigns, advised on the grief support provided by the charity and pushed on the new 2030 strategy for the charity as part of the Strategy Steering Committee and Formation group. Her main passion always lay in connecting with others as she supported fundraising and awareness events and campaigns speaking across social media, tv and radio or at live events to hundreds of audience members or going to small support groups and finding out about peoples experience. After her role ended in 2023, Victoria wanted to get stuck back into her true passion: advocating for grief support for young people. She also found that this passion empowered her to learn to live a fulfilling life with peace since her loss.
Professionally, Victoria is on an engineering and technical leadership development programme within one of the largest consumer product manufacturers in the world and is a key figure in implementing their wellbeing and inclusion and diversity strategy. Victoria is also big on adrenaline activities and can often be found rock climbing and hiking across the world, playing competitive basketball, sea swimming and running! She loves to travel and immerse herself in different cultures and explore diverse natures and landscapes.
