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Leadership

Charmaine Jean-Paul - Founder & CEO
Charmaine leads Rebel Led Equality's strategic vision and delivery. A qualified Designated Safeguarding Lead with a First Class Honours degree in Education, Culture and Society (Goldsmiths, 2014), she brings extensive experience facilitating community-led research, developing EDI strategies, and supporting organisations through transformation. Her work includes Southwark Council's Black Culture Conversation and evaluating London's Creative Health Framework for the GLA. As a Black female neurodivergent leader, Charmaine centres lived experience in all aspects of organisational strategy and service delivery.

Core Team

Nalini Naidoo - Programme Development Lead
Nalini oversees programme design and delivery, ensuring our work meets the highest standards whilst remaining grounded in community needs and co-production principles.

Kelly Sinclair - Community Engagement Lead
Kelly leads our community consultation and engagement work, building and maintaining the trusted relationships that underpin all our research and co-production activities.

Stella Anderson - Lead for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Stella brings specialist expertise in mental health and wellbeing, ensuring trauma-informed approaches are embedded across all our services.

Calvin Brown - Lead for SEND and Youth
Calvin leads our work with young people and families navigating Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, bringing employment coaching experience and deep understanding of educational barriers.

Associate Advisors

Cedric Whilby
Community Southwark trustee, Healthwatch Southwark Advisory Board member, and SCHWeP network member. Cedric brings governance expertise and deep Southwark community connections.

Julia Fraundorfer
Research specialist who led on the GLA Creative Health evaluation. Julia provides methodological rigour and evaluation expertise.

Advisory Panel

Our Advisory Panel comprises senior leaders in arts, academia, and community development with expertise across social justice, youth policy, higher education, and heritage:

  • Nicholas Okwolu

  • Melissa-Jo Smith

  • Dr Aminul Hoque

  • Dr Matthew Carlisle

  • Marcia Samuels

The panel provides strategic guidance, challenges our thinking, and connects us to wider networks of practice and influence.

Youth Advisory Panel

A group of 16-25 year olds ensuring lived experience and youth voice shape our programmes, keeping our work relevant, accessible, and grounded in the realities young people face.

Our Governance

Rebel Led Equality operates as a Community Interest Company (CIC) with robust governance structures that ensure accountability, transparency, and community benefit.

Organisational Structure:

  • CEO: Strategic leadership and overall responsibility

  • Core Team: Operational delivery and programme management

  • Associate Advisors: Specialist input and community connections

  • Advisory Panel: Strategic guidance and challenge

  • Youth Advisory Panel: Lived experience insight and accountability

Decision-Making: Strategic decisions are informed by input from our core team, associate advisors, and advisory panels, ensuring diverse perspectives shape our direction whilst maintaining operational efficiency.

Community Accountability: As a CIC, our profits are reinvested into our mission. Our governance ensures that communities most affected by inequality have genuine voice in shaping our work, not just benefiting from it.

Safeguarding: Robust safeguarding policies and procedures are embedded across all activities, with all staff safeguarding trained and led by a qualified Designated Safeguarding Lead.

Quality Assurance: Regular evaluation, peer review, and community feedback mechanisms ensure our work maintains the highest standards whilst remaining responsive to emerging needs.

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Who we are

Choosing Rebel Led Equality means working with a team that delivers more than training, we create transformation.

Our consultants bring lived and learned expertise, ensuring every solution is grounded in both evidence and empathy. We help you move past compliance and towards lasting cultural change, with people who know how to make inclusion real, practical, and measurable.

Rebel Led Equality is a Black-led, neurodivergent-led organisation grounded in lived experience and community trust. Our team combines deep expertise across education, safeguarding, community engagement, and organisational development with authentic understanding of the barriers marginalised communities face.

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