Meet our Trustees
St Martin’s Community Centre was officially recognised as a charity in 2002. It is governed by a board of trustees who meet regularly to agree the charity’s vision and values, plan activities and are responsible for the centre’s overall professional, legal and financial management.
Find out who they are below
Jasmine Eusell
Trustee
Jasmine is a DWP Work Coach/ Adviser and Executive Officer in the Civil Service.
She has been a trustee for over a year and decided to join the committee so she could create awareness about how local residences can become more involved and enhance community spirit. She also wanted to find ways to use her skills, knowledge and talents in order to add value and best help the community.
What Jasmine enjoys most is engaging with the committee members with a shared mindset and set of objectives so that they can identify new ways to involve the community, utilise the centre’s facilities and benefit from the services provided.
Jasmine is an advocate for openness, honesty, transparency and volunteering to help the less advantage have a voice.
Jennifer Felix
Trustee - Chair
Jennifer is a retired nurse and has been involved in the committee for over 10 years.
She is very passionate about her community and is especially focused on the youth and the elderly. Jennifer has found that community involvement has allowed her to utilize some of the skills she has developed whilst working as a ward manager for many years.
Jennifer enjoys working alongside people in her community and meeting various cultures and is proud that she plays a part in providing a space that is available to meet the needs of education, sports, those who feel isolated and religious groups.
She is also a mother of two children and is very committed to her faith.
Marguerita Gloria Alexander
Trustee
Marguerita is retired and has been a trustee for over 5 years.
Over a number of years, she has become very aware of the negative press young people receive and therefore feels a natural affinity with them as she can relate to them in a variety of ways. And feels greatly privilidged that they look to her as someone they can trust and rely on.
Marguerita became a member of the committee because she believes herself to be a positive influence in young people’s lives, to effect change and encoraging them to become better productive individuals in their community and mentoring them to help them become their best. It is her aim to help them realise their true potential and how valued they are. And it is gives her great satisfaction to see the transformation as their self esteem and confidence grows.
Marguerita is a mother of three sons, grandmother and great grandmother.
Paulette Walker
Trustee
Paulette has been a Deacon in the True Vine Apostolic Ministries for over 12 years and is also a Missionary of the Foreign Fields.
She has been a trustee for 2 years and joined because she wanted to give something back to the community and what a better way than to help with the decision making of the community centre of which she is a part of.
Paulette also supports orphanages in India and Jamaica, is a Safeguarding Officer with the London Borough of Lewisham and is also the Safeguarding Officer for Adults at Risk Champion.
She loves to help people whenever and wherever she can.
Sheila Vaughn
Trustee
Sheila is a retired Housing Officer.
She has been a trustee for 4 years and chose to become a member of the committee as she has always had an interest in community work and meeting the needs of the user groups. She enjoys the fact that as a member, she gets to use her voice to change the negatives into positives for service users and she enjoys working with the rich variety of people.
Sheila has a great love for life and for God.
Stephen Eusell
Trustee - Treasurer
Stephen is a Preacher by profession but also a self proclaimed ‘Jack of all trades, master of few’. He loves working on his two allotments in Kent where he can plant all sorts of organic vegetable. He also has a passion for diy, especially tiling and laminated wood.
Stephen became a trustee over 10 years ago and has been the Treasurer for many years. He initially joined the committee because he loves community activities, helping and getting involved.
Terence Curtis
Trustee - Vice Chair
Terence is semi-retired and works as a civil servant and for the Crown Prosecution Service.
He has has lived on the estate for 60 years and has been on the committee since 1998.
Terry joined the committee as he felt that the centre was not being well-run for the residents of St Martins and saw that the membership of the committee would change from meeting to meeting. After quite a struggle he headed the appointment of Donna Oates as the Manager and has had the pleasure of witnessing St Martins Community Centre transform and achieve local accountability.