Teresa joins the board as the chair in April 2025. She has over a decade of leadership in social care.

Teresa comes to the board with a commitment to strengthen HARC’s mission and support trustees and volunteers to achieve the charity’s objectives.

Beyond work, she loves the outdoors: hiking, mountaineering, and strength training keep her active and she greatly values time spent with family and friends sharing adventures with them.

 After working as the Project Manager since 2012 Liz decided to stand down from this role in 2024. She continues to work with us on fundraising. 

As well as working for HARC, Liz is also involved in working for several other charities, one of which, Stopgap, provides temporary accommodation for rough sleepers, or those at risk of rough sleeping.

Prior to this, Liz worked  as a paralegal in a legal aid law practice.

A supporter of HARC for many years Jayne has been a HARC Trustee since 2014.

Jayne was previously Training and Development Manager with the Sheffield Safeguarding Children Board, having worked for 30+ years with vulnerable young people in both the statutory and voluntary sector.

Jayne is all too aware that the challenging and complex issues that many young people face will follow them into adulthood where homelessness and isolation becomes, for many, an almost inevitable reality.

Gemma has been volunteering at HARC since 2009 and joined the Board of Trustees in 2023. 

She is the Head of Learning & Impact at Grimm & Co, a children's literacy charity based in Rotherham, and was previously a teacher in both primary and secondary education. 

Gemma has a greyhound called Aoife they both enjoy a walk through ancient woods.

Phil currently works for a national breast cancer charity. He has a keen interest in equity, diversity, inclusion, and advocacy and is the co-chair for a neurodivergence forum at work. 

Phil has worked in health and social care for 25 years in a variety of roles including children and families, as an NHS coordinator for adults with additional support needs and the Alzheimer’s Society.  

He enjoys spending time with his family, reading,  live music and is a keen video gamer.

He has volunteered at HARC since 2017.

Jo has been HARC Secretary since 2015, on the Board of Trustees since 2011, but involved with HARC as a volunteer since 2009.

Jo currently works in Higher Education where she leads a research and innovation capacity building project as well as being a senior academic.

She has worked as a volunteer with groups and charities supporting pre-school children and elderly people.

Jo is kept busy with her two teenage daughters, and when she gets a chance, loves to potter in her allotment.

Kai first got involved with HARC in 2023, as a kitchen lead, having previously volunteered as a kitchen lead at another charity. He joined the HARC Board of Trustees at the 2025 AGM.

Kai is training to become an Architect, currently working in practice as an Architectural Assistant in the Sheffield area.

In his spare time, he enjoys walking in the peaks, running and going to gigs.

Samantha joined HARC in September 2022.

 

Her main role is to provide administrative support to the HARC team and to support the Project Lead.

Prior to this Samantha worked in Purchasing. She brings her commercial experience to this supporting role. 

 

She has two grown up children. Samantha is a reading mentor and enjoys walking. 

Steph was appointed the  Project Manager of HARC alongside Jazmine at the 2024 AGM. She has been involved with HARC as a project lead since 2022. She originally started her career working with disadvantaged young people but for the last five years has worked with rough sleepers and homeless people in Sheffield for Framework. She also works part time as an outreach worker for SWWOP  and volunteers as a board member for South Yorkshire YWCA. 

She spends most of her spare time rock climbing in the Peak District.

Jaz was appointed the new Project Manager of HARC alongside Stephanie at the 2024 AGM but has been a Project Lead since Christmas 2022.

She has experience of various roles within homelessness including at Framework, within the Local Authority and also through the Justice System. She is an outreach worker for SWWOP and also volunteers with various other charities in Sheffield.

She enjoys running, big walks and has recently picked up the violin again!