Time & Talents for Westminster team

Dawn Newton

Employee Volunteering Coordinator

Dawn is responsible for hands on support to Time & Talents partners. She has been working in the Time & Talents team since Spring 2009

Focus areas

Project brokerage; consultancy, introductions and partnership support
Relationship building at the grass roots and neighbourhood level
Good practice resource development; design of project tools and templates
Marketing, Comms & Website development
Project evaluation and reporting

Dawn volunteers for Healthy Planet and with her previous corporate experience is helping a social entrepreneur launch a Mobile Mums project.

Esther Lumby

Employee Volunteering Coordinator

Esther joined Time & Talents in January 2012. Her role includes working with a range of Companies and government departments to encourage Employer Supported Volunteering and broker staff into volunteering roles.

Other focus areas

Finance management
Event coordination

Previously Esther was Sport & Events Volunteer Co-ordinator here at the volunteer centre for over 2 years, responsible for both the City Transformed Through Sport project and City Guides volunteering programme. Prior to that Esther worked in the Community Fundraising team at WaterAid.

Sholi Loewenthal

Employee Volunteering Coordinator

Sholi joined the Time & Talents team in the Summer of 2009 and is responsible for linking up staff at Westminster companies and government departments with volunteering projects which serve local community needs.

Other focus areas

Website development
Comms
Case Studies
Project evaluation and reporting

Previously, Sholi has been involved with several education and psychology focused research projects, and has worked in health insurance, property management, writing and youth work. When not at the Centre he is focused on his PhD on the role of the internet in engaging global civil society with global governance institutions at the University of Warwick and co-directing SIBE, a student broadcasting organisation.