CCVS Staff
CCVS is run by a team of experienced and knowledgeable staff and volunteers, including trustees. Each individual has a different role and areas of expertise, but all can either help you with your organisational issues, or point you in the right direction. For details of individual staff members see below.
Chief Executive Officer
Jez Reeve is the Chief Executive of CCVS. She has been running CVSs in Cambridge and in Tower Hamlets for 6 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.
Jez represents the voluntary and community sector on the Local Strategic Partnerships of Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire.
Outside work she is also on a number of national policy panels for community participation, diversity and communication.
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Operations Manager
Ruth McCallum is the CCVS Operations Manager. Ruth is a qualified teacher and social worker with a diploma in voluntary sector management. She has lived in Cambridge for over 30 years and spent 20 years in the voluntary sector. Ruth has managed the Cambridge Branch of a national charity and worked for charities in London.
Ruth is a licensed PQASSO mentor taking a lead on quality standards with voluntary groups. Ruth runs the operations at CCVS and works directly with groups setting up legal structures and on governance issues.
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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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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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Admin Support Worker (Finance and Website)
Geeth Subburaj is the Admin Support Worker (Finance and Website). She has a degree in Accounting and Commerce and a Masters in Computer Applications.Geeth has done voluntary work for an accounting firm in India working on Partnership and Charity accounts. She has also volunteered for the Harambee Centre in Cambridge.
Geeth has worked on a number of different projects with CCVS including the Patient and Public Involvement Forum and the VoiCeS Project.
Geeth designed and developed the CCVS website and is responsible for maintaining and updating it. Geeth has a particular interest in equalities and disabilities issues.
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