Our Team

Meet the Trustees and Committee

Meet the Trustees

Susy Lenihan (Treasurer)

is semi-retired from working, for many years, in the financial sector. She has an active interest in charities which support the welfare of young people and those affected by addiction.

Dinah Wellenkamp (Trustee)

is a former business manager with many years’ budget monitoring experience.

Debra Hawley (Trustee)

is a former lecturer at Wiltshire College. Prior to that, she spent ten years working as a customer services manager in the private sector.

John Pendrey (Chair)

is a retired engineer. He has thirty years’ experience as a trustee and coach to youth sports teams.

Susanna Lisle

is a Wiltshire artist who studied at Goldsmiths College of Art and Bath School of Art. She exhibits locally and across the UK.

Meet the Professionals

Bridget Green

is a qualified counsellor with 13 years’ experience in supporting families affected by addiction. She works with Families Out Loud to provide assessment and counselling sessions. She also facilitates the support group meetings.

Donna Nowell

is a qualified counsellor who has several years’ experience in supporting family members affected by a loved-one’s addiction. She also works in a primary school helping children with learning needs, and enjoys amateur dramatics in her spare time.

Fiona Culham

has worked in the field of addiction for several years. She is an experienced facilitator who is trained in safeguarding.

Ingrid Gammage

is a trainee counsellor at Wiltshire college, and a support group facilitator with Families Out Loud. She has many years’ experience working in the field of mental health.

Meet our Champions

Dr Jan Gentaku Mojsa

UKCP Registered Psychotherapist & Supervisor

Buddhist Chaplain

Visiting Fellow, School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University

Families Out Loud offers something very rare. That rarity is to be found in the people who hold the charity and its service to families journeying with addiction. Rather than hiding issues in a shadowy corner, Families Out Loud lovingly and skilfully enable issues to be raised, and words to be spoken. In my view, they have the richest of things – a depth of compassion and knowledge that arises out of experience.

I offer my total support for this unique charity in its support of families struggling to both survive and make sense of the pathways of addiction. They are a family in its truest sense – being there when the going gets tough, offering the kindness and firmness that helps each other to become more of who we are.

Jane Eaton

Wiltshire Artist and Textile Designer

As a mother of four children, two daughters with addiction, one in recovery and one still battling to embrace change, I am very aware of the devastating impact this can have on the family. Thirty years with an addicted family member with very little professional support, Families Out Loud was recommended to me by one of my daughters and I reached out to them for help.

They have been an anchor and an amazing support to me in dealing with traumatic incidents that have occurred in the last couple of years. My thanks go to them for being there for me and for the amazing work they do to help families.

Jo Trigg

Wiltshire Councillor & Trowbridge Town Councillor

Chair of Trustees – Trowbridge Future

Business Support Consultant

Vice Chair of Board of Governors – The John of Gaunt School

Governor – Studley Green Primary School

Charities that are born out of personal experience and genuine compassion provide not only a vital service to those in need, but also enrich the wider communities in which they are embedded. Families Out Loud is such a charity. Created by, and for, those understanding the impacts addiction can have on families, it provides an essential lifeline. I’m very proud to support Families Out Loud who I know are making a difference to people in our community every single day.

Dave Payne

Health and Wellbeing Coach

Bradford on Avon and Wiltshire PCN

As a recovering addict I was blinkered to the hurt I was causing my family. With an organisation like Families Out Loud, families and loved ones of people in addiction can get the support they richly deserve and need.

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