Meet Our Team
Meet the amazing staff that keeps AYP running.
Diego
Coach/ Youth worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Spiderman
Favourite Football Team: Tottenham
Favourite AYP Activity: Football
Random fact: I was almost half blind.
Nathan
Senior Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Harley Quinn
Favourite Football Team: Chelsea
Favourite AYP Activity: Pool
Random fact: When I was 4, I got chased by a turkey and thought I was gonna die.
Jauntaye
Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Hulk
Favourite Football Team: Of course, it’s Man United
Favourite AYP Activity: Football
Random fact: I am a rapper
Jordan D
Youth Programme Coordinator
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Megamind
Favourite Football Team: Manchester United
Favourite AYP Activity: Pool
Random Fact: I’ve got a silver medal in javelin.
Anthony
Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Hulk
Favourite Football Team: Arsenal
Favourite AYP Activity: Table Tennis
Random Fact: I can read Spanish fluently.
Joel
Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Powerman (Luke Cage)
Favourite Football Team: If I had to pick it’d be chelsea
Favourite AYP Activity: Getting on Amani’s nerves plus the vicious air hockey
Random fact: I’m a bass player.
Amani
Senior Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Hulk
Favourite Football Team: Manchester United
Favourite AYP Activity: Anything with cards
Random fact: I can do most of my makeup blindfolded.
Krastiela
Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Black Panther
Favourite Football Team: Manchester United
Favourite AYP Activity: Arts & crafts
Random fact: I love travelling, just love new historical sets, new places.
Fatima H
Senior Youth Worker/ Youth Program Coordinator
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Ironman
Favourite Football Team: Barcelona (back when they were good)
Favourite AYP Activity: The trips
Random fact: Cooked onions remind me of centipedes.
Fatima A
Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Harley Quinn
Favourite Football Team: None
Favourite AYP Activity: 1v1 with the young people
Random fact: I have a parrot called Rico.
Jordan C
Senior Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: I am my favourite superhero
Favourite Football Team: Arsenal
Favourite AYP Activity: Pool
Random fact: I have a twin brother.
Malaeka
Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Aquaman, mainly because of Jason Mamoa
Favourite Football Team: I used to be a Man U fan.
Favourite AYP Activity: Arts and Crafts
Random fact: I was training to be a nurse when I was 18.
Leah
Youth Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Buzz Lightyear
Favourite Football Team: Tottenham
Favourite AYP Activity: Eating activities
Random fact: I can do the splits.
Adam
HR Manager and Finance officer
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Monkey D Luffy
Favourite Football Team: Manchester United
Favourite AYP Activity: Table Tennis
Random fact: I’ve been to highest point you can reach on land in the UK. Walked up Ben Nevis.
Jemeica
HR Assistant/Office Coordinator
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Ironman
Favourite Football Team: Chelsea
Favourite AYP Activity: Pool
Random fact: I’m obsessed with candy canes!
Cairo
Operations Coordinator
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Joker
Favourite Football Team: I don’t have one. Don’t support football like that.
Favourite AYP Activity: I don’t really get to be a part of the activities. 🙁
Random Fact: I have a daughter.
Zu
Youth Services Manager AKA Chief Table Tennis Officer
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Batman
Favourite Football Team: Watford FC
Favourite AYP Activity: Annoying Amani/ table table of course
Random Fact: I have a twin brother that looks nothing like me.
Noor
Designated Safeguarding Officer, Youth Services Manager
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Maleficent
Favourite Football Team: Arsenal
Favourite AYP Activity: Pool
Random Fact: I have a birthmark in the shape of a broad bean.
Ali
Operations Manager
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Spiderman
Favourite Football Team: Manchester United
Favourite AYP Activity: Winning against Jordan Carder on FIFA
Random fact: I volunteered for AYP in 2006, when the organisation was set up, and I re-joined in 2021, so my life has gone round in a circle. 🙂
Muhammad
Video Editor
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Mandalorian
Favourite Football Team: Manchester United
Favourite AYP Activity: Indoor football
Random Fact: I can understand 12 languages, 6 world languages and 6 computer ‘languages’
Zohal
Marketing Coordinator
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Iron Man
Favourite Football Team: Man United
Favourite AYP Activity: Chilling on the couch
Random fact: I love spicy food.
Nitharshan
Maintenance/Gardener
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Thanos
Favourite Football Team: N/A
Favourite AYP Activity: Gardening
Random fact: My life goal is to live out the dream of Lennie Small from Of Mice and Men.
Brathees
Marketing Coordinator
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Optimus Prime
Favourite Football Team: Manchester United (We stink right now, I know)
Favourite AYP Activity: Pool/Snooker
Random fact: I am a fan of a YouTube group known as the Sidemen.
Alexandra
Graphic Designer
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Don’t really have one
Favourite Football Team: I don’t watch football
Favourite AYP Activity: Chilling
Random fact: I enjoy baking and watching tutorials.
Tulsi
Fundraising/Special Project Fundraiser
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Hulk
Favourite Football Team: Arsenal
Favourite AYP Activity: Pool
Random fact: I have one penny coin from 1917.
Katie
Foodbank Worker
Favourite Superhero/Villain: I don’t like superheroes
Favourite Football Team: I’m going to have to say QPR, I was born into it
Favourite AYP Activity: Working with my coworkers
Random Fact: I was born tongue-tied.
Keenen
Foodbank Manager/Coordinator
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Daredevil
Favourite Football Team: Arsenal
Favourite AYP Activity: Pool
Random fact: I’m notorious for eating chicken bones
Christopher
Foodbank Operations Assistant
Favourite Superhero/Villain: Kingpin
Favourite Football Team: I don’t watch football
Favourite AYP Activity: Chilling with Lola
Random fact: I have 13 year old dog called Jerry.