Meet the RISE Woking Team
RISE Woking prides itself in having a team which holds a wealth of experience. All staff receive regular training in Safeguarding, First Aid, Basic Food Hygiene, Risk Assessments and Dementia Care
Mo Smith
Chair of Trustees
Mo Smith MBS FRSA has been involved in community work for over 40 years and her experience has included providing Community Care projects, working for ACET (AIDS Care, Education and Training), The Shaftesbury Society and Regenerate.com. She was co-founder of Regenerate.com with her son Andy Smith, co-founder of SHINE Again (Support and Healing using the INtegretativE arts) with her daughter Debbie Thwaites and founder of Rise n Shine Community Transport CIC. with Ray, her husband. Mo was awarded an MBE for her work in the community of Putney and Roehampton and was pleased to receive it from the now King Charles.
Debbie Thwaites
Director of Services
Debbie Thwaites is a qualified Integrative Child Psychotherapist and Solution Focused Therapist. She has also completed courses in Developing fitness programs for older people, Caring for older people, Safeguarding vulnerable adults, Safeguarding children, Leading with Kindness and Compassion in Health and Social Care, Psychological First Aid and Basic Food Hygiene. She has received an NHS Excellence Award and an Enterprising Roehampton Award. Debbie Co-founded SHINE Again in 2003, a charity that provides Integrative arts and play therapy to children in primary Schools. In In 2000 Debbie managed a Day Centre in Putney and after volunteering with Regenerate Rise for over 10 years joined the team in 2021.
Jonny Moles
Centre Manager
Bev
Tia
Tia studied at Brooklands College then started volunteer work at Hale End Court where she discovered a passion for working with the elderly.
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Ray Smith
Trustee
Ray has also been involved in community work for many years and has retired from being self-employed in the car industry - which was and still is a great asset to Regenerate-RISE's fleet of minibuses. Ray volunteers regularly for RISE by doing general handyman work around the Platt Mission. He is now a Volunteer Driver for RISE Woking on three days a week. He has been involved in pastoral care and attends Welcome Church in Woking.
Julia Przetakiewicz
Trustee
Julia Przetakiewicz is Canadian Polish and was initially an employee of Regenerate-RISE with various roles including Chief Operating Officer and Centre Manager. On resigning as an employee Julia became a Trustee with a great knowledge of how the organisation performed. Previous employment included conducting research for the International Business Leaders Forum in Hong Kong, Research Consultant and Workshop Facilitator for "Supply Chain Risk and Reputation - Business and Human Rights" roundtables working with Doughty Street Chambers, Beechwood International and Mazars. Julia has a MSc in Communications and Media and a BA in Modern European Studies. She speaks French, Polish and Spanish. Her volunteer roles included being Advisor for Feeding Hong Kong and REDRESS Hong Kong and her hobbies are hiking, skiing, tennis, travel and the arts.
David Trowbridge
Trustee
David Trowbridge is Managing Partner of his own Company, Newverus and is a Business Management and Recruitment Consultant, having had 30 years experience in the industry. He has worked for Walbrook International, NP Group and Intuit among others and also volunteers for Spear and Glassdoor Homeless Charity. He is married with a family and lives in Fulham, South West London and attends St Dionis C of Church in his neighbourhood.
Nick Oaks
Trustee
Nick Oakes joined the Board of Trustees early in 2017 and has a history in housing, benefits, support, skills project and budget management. He has been an advocate for the marginalised, youth and elderly and lives in Cobham, Surrey. His hobbies include travel, gardening, sport and helping others. He enjoys travelling to Spain on a regular basis and has experience of being a Trustee of another charity that provided services for older people in the Cobham area.
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