Meet the Headspace team.

Sarah Collacott

Headspace Counsellor

Level 5 Children and Young person Counsellor.

20 years experience working with Young People in various school settings including Teaching Assistant, Behaviour Support Practitioner, Wellbeing Support, Youth Work, Pastoral Support,

Qualified Counsellor for over 5 years and have worked previously at Teens in Crisis and Listening Post Counselling services. I have been a counsellor at The Cotswold School and Headspace for over 5 years. I am very passionate about the work I do with students and love seeing them on their journey through their school years.

Helen Sharman-Jones

Wellbeing Lead

Helen has worked for the NHS for 20 years as a registered Nurse, most recently working as a School Nurse in the Cotswolds where she developed a passion for working with young people struggling with mental health problems to help make change in their lives. In her role as Wellbeing Lead, Helen is keen to work with Schools, local services and other charities to develop and increase the free Wellbeing and Counselling support and information that Headspace offers to ensure that local help is available to young people and their families in the North Cotswolds.

Paul Ludlow

Headspace Trustee

Paul has worked in education for over 30 years in pastoral and safeguarding roles in a range of settings, from independent boarding schools to special education. Currently working in a senior position for an international education company, Paul is an experience educational safeguarding practitioner and a Safer Recruitment Consortium and NSPCC trainer. Paul originally from Essex but has lived in and around the Cotswolds for many years, currently happily residing in Bourton.

Kathryn Pulham

Chair of Trustees

Kathryn is Finance Director for Pulhams Coaches and Chair of mental health charity Headspace. She lives with her family in the Cotswolds.

Helen Adams

Headspace Trustee

Helen is one of the founder members of Headspace. She’s famous for creating Santa’s Magical Grotto and baking the best cakes in The Cotswolds. As well as being a Trustee, Helen volunteers at the Headspace allotment and is passionate about supporting local young people with their emotional wellbeing.

Kevan Taylor

Trustee, Treasurer & Senior Leadership Team

Kevan is a Chartered Accountant who serves as a trustee for a number of organisations, namely: Headspace; Gloucester Diocesan Board of Finance; Moore Friends and Sportily. Before retiring, Kevan worked for over 10 years as a Finance Director in not for profit organisations, including three sporting National Governing Bodies. Kevan lives in Clapton on the Hill with his wife Pat, who is a volunteer for Headspace.

Jon Wareing

Trustee & Senior Leadership Team

Jon is a Business Performance Coach, based in the Cotswolds and typically working with multi-national companies, with a particular focus on mental toughness and mindset development. His concern about the rising tide of mental health challenges in society in general, and amongst young people in particular, drives his commitment to strengthen the role of community in providing social support and in turn improve overall health and wellbeing.

Paddy Flaherty

Trustee

Patrick is a Recovery Worker for National Drug and Alcohol Charity Change Grow Live.

His passion for addiction work came as he attended an additional unit on substance misuse, during his Degree In Counselling and Psychotherapy at Gloucestershire College in 2011.

He has also worked at Gloucestershire's NHS for mental health and IAPT talking therapies service.

Patrick feels that he can offer a good contribution to Headspace as a charity trustee to cover all aspects of mental health and issues which may affect the young people it supports and their families.

He has a passion for positive starts in life and feels grateful to be able to contribute to such a positive local cause.

Julie Mitchell

Leadership Team

I have had a long a varied career including practising as a family solicitor, management of national transport contracts and community transport services. I have spent the last 10 years managing operations in charitable organisations, specifically club-based activities. I have learnt so much about managing people with integrity, compassion and respect.

I now have a passion for supporting local community with a particular interest, arising from personal experience, in helping those suffering from family crisis. This work has included direct support to families dealing with the devastation resulting from family breakdown, dementia and mental health issues, helping them to find support with carer respite, befriending and accessing services and funding available to them. I have many years’ experience of working in the charitable sector in Gloucestershire and continue to use my experience through my volunteering roles.

Tom Watmore

Designated Safeguarding Lead

Julie Lund-Yates

Headspace Administrator

Vacancy

Income Generation Officer

Tara Sutton

Wellbeing Group Coordinator

Tara has experience working with vulnerable teenagers and those struggling in education. Tara is very outdoorsy, in her spare time she surfs or runs, having completed her first ultramarathon in 2021. She has a passion working with young people in the outdoors and teaches bushcraft and survival skills as she recognises being outdoors has a positive outcome on people’s mental health.