CCVS Staff
CCVS is run by a team of experienced and knowledgeable staff. Each individual has a different role and areas of expertise, but all are happy to help you with your organisational issues, or point you in the right direction.
Chief Executive Officer
Jez Reeve is the Chief Executive of CCVS. She has run the CVS in Cambridge and in Tower Hamlets over the last 8 years. She has long experience of setting up and running campaigning community groups around women’s issues and environmental concerns. She is skilled in project management and community research and development, having run departments for local authorities and NDPB.
Jez represents the voluntary and community sector on the Local Strategic Partnership of Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire.
Outside work she is also on a number of national policy panels for community participation, diversity and communication as well as on parish committees.
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Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Mark Freeman is the Deputy Chief Executive. He joined CCVS in October 2011from working at Skills Third Sector a national organisation promoting the importance of learning and development to charities and voluntary organisations. He has extensive experience of working in the sector at local, regional and national levels; he has also been a trustee for a number of organisations both in Cambridge and nationally. Mark has a Masters in Business Administration from the Open University.
Mark is responsible for managing projects for CCVS and also represents the sector on the Cambridge Crime and Safety Partnership.
In his spare time Mark is a father to two small girls that take up all his time.
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Networks and Development Worker
Yvonne Barr is the Networks and Development Worker at CCVS. She has lived in Cambridge for over 10 years and has been with the CCVS for the past six years.
Yvonne has worked on a number of different projects whilst at CCVS including the Patient and Public Involvement Forum, Rural Networking Project, Trustee Network and, more recently, New Communities and Growth Areas.
Yvonne brings to CCVS a range of skills including project and innovation management and takes the lead on environmental issues.
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Development Worker
Alan Turner is a Development Worker at CCVS. He has twenty-eight years of working in the voluntary community sector as a community worker, manager of a day centre for people who find themselves homeless, as development worker and trainer in a CVS and as a trainer for NAVCA. He has also helped to set up several voluntary community groups where he was a trustee. Before joining Cambridge CVS he worked as an independent trainer specialising community leadership and the skills needed by community leaders.
Alan is responsible for helping groups with their problems, he also uses his conciderable experience to deliver training sessions and is responsible for a lot of the IT at CCVS.
Alan's personal passion is garden design, he recently completed a degree in garden design and has designed several small gardens.
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Office Administrator
Frances Carter is the CCVS Office Administrator and has worked for CCVS for 6 years. Before this she was a regional development officer for a national charity, setting up, supporting and developing the work of local voluntary groups in London.
At CCVS Frances is responsible for producing CCVS Community News and for dealing with membership applications and queries.
She is usually the first point of contact for telephone and email enquiries to CCVS and updates our database of information about local voluntary and community groups.
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Finance Development Officer
Louise Prosser is the Finance Development Worker at CCVS. She is a Chartered Accountant, as well as having a degree in Accounting and Finance.
Louise set up and ran a Community Accountancy Project in
Louise specialises in working with groups in the areas of bookkeeping and accounts, budgets and legal responsibilities.
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