Renee Flourentzou | Chair of Trustees
Renee has a wealth of experience in education and working with young people. As Director of Education at West Lea, a school for children with special educational needs and disabilities, she believes that all young people deserve the opportunity to flourish, and that we can make a real difference if we dream big and work together.
Renee has worked at West Lea for many years and was instrumental in establishing the school’s employability programmes, which bridge the gap between education and employment. Before joining the school, Renee founded and ran the Edmonton Community Partnership, a charity that brought together 23 local schools, raising aspirations and improving outcomes for disadvantaged young people.
Renee holds an MA in Child Studies from KCL focused on the legal and policy framework around children’s rights, education, and child protection. She joined LFLC as a trustee in June 2023 and is also a trustee of Enfield’s Enterprise Cooperative Trust.
Sue Tripp | Founding Trustee
With a long career history in education spanning more than 36 years, Sue is a former head of West Lea School. She believes that young people get the best outcomes in life when they know and build on their strengths. She arrived at West Lea with an inclusion agenda, to try and get as many students as possible back into mainstream schools, but soon realised that what they had at West Lea was truly unique: a peer group, friends, a bespoke curriculum, and staff who understood their needs – which led to greater confidence in themselves. With a strong desire to extend that support and confidence beyond the school gates, she developed a ‘Learning for Life’ vision. The charity is an extension of this vision and dear to Sue’s heart. Sue is a founding trustee, having joined in December 2014, and is also a trustee of Enfield’s Enterprise Cooperative Trust.
James Carrick
James has a longstanding record in education beginning in 1982 and has held several senior leadership and headship roles, only taking a short break from the sector to travel and run his own business. Since 1993, he has worked in the London Borough of Enfield, nearly always based in Edmonton. Having spent many years working with marginalised pupils, James is committed to breaking down the barriers that confront children and young people with special educational needs; inclusive practice is in his DNA. He understands the difficulties that families face in the local area and is passionate about steering LFLC to support the community and raise aspirations. He became an LFLC trustee in January 2020 and is also a trustee of the Enterprise Cooperative Trust. He believes that together we are stronger.
Mervin Cato
Mervin is one of the co-leaders, and founder of Men United 4 Christ. MU4C started up more than 20 years ago engaging men from different churches in prayer, Bible study and training. Mervin is Head of Enfield’s Secondary Behaviour Support Service and has over 15 years’ experience in education. Mervin started as a learning mentor in a London based secondary mainstream school and progressed to Learning Support Manager within the same school. In 2007 he became manager of a local authority secondary support centre in North London. Mervin’s service works with the most challenging young people in the borough – most of who have been permanently excluded from school – with a large percentage of them being young people who have offended. Mervin runs parenting groups and, as a father of three and a grandfather of two, he has experience of parenting teenagers as well as working with them with on a professional basis. He joined the LFLC board of trustees in March 2020.
Dr Serpil Djemal
Formely a consultant in restorative dentistry at King’s College Hospital, Serpil led the adult dental trauma service, the first of its kind in the UK, for the management of acute dental trauma. Founder and chair of Dental Trauma UK, Serpil lectures around the world, sharing best practice on the management of dental trauma. She joined LFLC in January 2023.
Louise Mcnamara
A dedicated finance professional, Louise is Head of Finance at Enfield Council’s education department. Louise joined LFLC in January 2022 and leads its finance committee.
Lulu Mungur
An experienced performance coach and consultant with a history of working in leadership, culture change, and communication. Lulu is skilled in creating the performance culture, leadership ethos, and people systems required in a healthy organisation, and is passionate about closing the gap between what an organisation says and does. Strategic and client-focused, with a practical, caring, and hands-on approach, Lulu works with values-driven organisations and innovative growth-focused boards who want to achieve results, look after their people, and do good in the world. Having neurodiverse family members, Lulu is passionate about creating a world in which everyone can flourish and believes a good job is key to wellbeing. Lulu joined LFLC in March 2023.