Meet the DEED team
Hello, we are Sarah, Louise and Abi and between us we offer four main areas of work: training, workshops, resources and exhibitions. Our services are designed to support and enhance all aspects of education from a global perspective in order to encourage children of all ages to develop self confidence, increased awareness and a positive attitude to taking responsible action.
Sarah Wise
Centre Coordinator
Sarah is our global educator - responsible for delivering projects and training on global learning and sustainability. She enjoys training teachers on the Global Teacher Award Level 1 course, and is the main DEED contact for projects such as Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning; PLACE: Paths to Learning - Active Community Exploration; WhatSUP? Rethinking Single Use Plastics and our teacher training.
Sarah has been part of the team since April 2000, originally joining for a 2 year DFID funded project, and really enjoys working with people face to face, collaborating and sharing ideas and actions to make the world a better place.
Louise Boston-Mammah
Programme Coordinator
Louise is our diversity educator delivering projects, workshops and training on Multicultural Britain, Black History in Dorset and Fair Trade. She enjoys working with children and young people, as well as teachers and partners from the wider community. She is the main DEED contact for projects working with the community and in arts and heritage, such as Many Faiths Living Better Together, Black History in Dorset, and Positive Stories of Dorset's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
Louise has been part of the team since October 1998, originally joining for a 1 year DFID funded project called A Story To Tell: Coming to Dorset from Around the World, and has enjoyed helping to tell the stories of people from many faiths, cultures and heritages who have lived, worked and contributed to life in the UK.
Abi Leigh-Watts
Resource and Finance Administrator
Abi is our Deed Administrator, supporting the running of Deed since August 1999. The role involves handling resources, daily finances, newsletters, ensuring the website is kept up to date and organising IT support. She initially joined Deed after spending 4 months overlanding from the UK to West Africa which inspired her to work for an organisation that played a part in raising awareness of the cultural diversity we are lucky enough to share on this planet.
Our team of DEED Trustees are:
Ann Coleman, Ted Taylor, Mary Bevan, Jenny Thatcher, Rebecca Bone, Roger Lister, Pauline Stirling and Dr Ian Gwinn, all of whom bring a vast range of experiences to DEED and share a passion for global learning.
DEED is a registered company 03646475 and a registered charity 1072827 established in 1983 in Bournemouth and originally covered the east side of the county of Dorset (hence our original name was Development Education in ‘East’ Dorset). We now serve Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
DEED is a member of the Consortium of Development Education Centres
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