Maggie Owolade - Founder and Director
Maggie is the Director of ARCS – a charity set up by parents to support families in Lambeth. A mother of four children, all with ADHD, ASD and other neurodiversities.
She is also a qualified Social worker with a degree in Psychology, a masters and a post graduate qualification in Autism and Education.
Maggie has extensive third sector and health experience, including seven years as the London Area Manager of a national dementia charity. She also has many years of youth and community outreach experience.
Maggie worked as a SEND Teaching Assistant with a special interest in ASD and ADHD for four years.
As Director of ARCS, Maggie co-ordinates and hosts ADHD training for primary and secondary schools in Lambeth, after school and holiday clubs, youth and social services teams, the Metropolitan Police, parents and young people with ADHD and other neurodiversities.
She also provides workplace neurodiversity awareness training and is committed to partnership and co-production to foster mutually respectful and dynamic services for families and young people with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions.
Kelly Jackson - Trustee
Kelly is currently working for a one form entry primary school in Lambeth as the School Business Manager and have two daughters aged 16 and 19. Her youngest daughter has been diagnosed with ADHD, Autism, Properceptive defect and absence seizures.
This gives Kelly experience knowing what it is like to have a child with severe special educational needs.
Kelly has worked across Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Merton boroughs. This has given her the chance to gain extensive knowledge and experience of working with children from all walks of life and backgrounds.
Kelly has several qualifications through the work I do with schools, for example the certificate and diploma of Schools Business Management and she's also the Schools designated safeguarding lead and due to start the National Professional Qualification for Headship.
Jacques Beaupierre
Jacques Beaupierre works in South London as a Business Change Manager for a FTSE 100 company. Having lived and worked in London since 2011, he has been acutely aware of the challenges that many people face day to day, and in particular when in need of specialist support services. It is for this reason that he has sought to put his skills to use in supporting ARCs in the capacity of Trustee.
There has been a growing demand for ADHD support services and the needs of young people and their families are not able to be sufficiently met by existing services.
ARCs is striving to address the unmet needs. As a trustee of ARCs, James endeavours to support the strategic direction day to day running of the charity for the benefit of the population.
Dr Jane Anderson - Trustee
Dr Jane Anderson is a Consultant in Child & Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatry. She works for South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in the inner city London borough of Lambeth.
Dr Anderson is particularly interested in the impact of ADHD on increasing risks associated with Conduct Disorder and Serious Youth Violence.
Dr Anderson has extensive ADHD experience, specialising in complex all-age diagnosis and risk assessment.
Dr Anderson is an early adopter of Quality Improvement methodology, and undertook a large quality improvement project which developed the current ADHD care pathway in Lambeth.
Kate Cheesman - Vice Chair of Trustees
Kate Cheesman was the ADHD pathway lead for Lambeth CAMHS (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust), she is a mental health nurse and independent medical prescriber, currently working on an MSc in Advanced Nurse Practice.
Kate coordinated the assessment and treatment of ADHD within the local service, as well as co-chairing the local multi-professional ADHD strategy group.
Kate also worked alongside local parents in the establishment of the ADHD charity, ARCs"