Advisory Board

Our advisory board is in place to offer governance guidance but also innovate future development plans as we expand our open doors membership and look at different ways to maximise the unique interface, we have created between the entire UK youth sector and the emerging violence reduction units across the UK.

Stephen Skeet

Stephen Skeet

Stephen is a Director at Social Action Charity Volunteering Matters and plays a leadership role in the coordination of the #iwill Movement with partner colleagues at UK Youth. Stephen worked…

Kimberley C. Lamb

Kimberley C. Lamb

As Director of Bedfordshire’s Violence and Exploitation Reduction Unit (VERU) Kimberley is responsible for the strategic and organisational coordination, development of practices, policies and innovative approaches within the VERU, needed…

Alex Atherton

Alex Atherton

Alex Atherton is an experienced secondary school headteacher, education consultant and leadership coach. He had two headships in large and diverse inner London schools and a further interim headship in…

Martin Griffiths

Martin Griffiths

Martin P Griffiths CBE DL FRCA FRCS is a consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust where he developed the nation’s first ward-based intervention programme for the…

Adam Muirhead

Adam Muirhead

Adam Muirhead is an experienced and dedicated Youth Work leader who believes in creating youth-led solutions to tackle inequality. Adam is the Director of Youth Work at a Brighton &…

Greg Forbes

Greg Forbes

Greg is currently working in Scottish Violence Reduction Unit in Glasgow having completed 29 years in Policing, mainly based in the east of Scotland. Much of his career has focused…