Melissa Lawrence, Chief Executive

Melissa has 20 years’ experience working in the non-profit and corporate sector.

Melissa previously worked for a social mobility charity, working with businesses in the financial, professional and related services sector to help them develop their corporate social responsibility, diversity and talent pipeline programmes. This included managing the award-winning City of London Business Traineeship programme for over 10 years.

At the Foundation, Melissa's key focus is to shape the charity through awareness raising, leadership and strategic planning.

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Catriona Salisbury, Placement and Training Programme Manager

Catriona is responsible for coordinating the Foundation’s new Summer Stars training and placement scheme. With previous experience as both an administrator and an office manager, Catriona has a degree in French from Queen Mary University in London and spent a year studying at Université de François Rabelais in France.

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Gabrielle Thuesday, Programme Manager

Joining the foundation in July 2019 as Programme Manager, Gabrielle(Assoc CIPD) is responsible for managing our flagship PR Training and Mentoring programmes. 

Gabrielle previously worked as a Student Support and Event Manager within an Aesthetic Training Academy. This role involved managing all operations of their non-accredited courses and providing all round support to students in achieving their course goals. A PR and Advertising graduate and now Associate member of the CIPD, Gabrielle's core interests lie in people development within BAME communities and communications. 

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Mariam Sheriff, Programme Administrator (intern)


Mariam joined the Foundation as an intern in January 2020, Mariam is responsible for the programme administration of the PR Training Programme and supporting the TBF team.

Mariam previously volunteered as a project assistant and later, project leader within the Leaders in Community youth charity (LiC) running a young women’s group known as ‘Be Inspired’.  Upon graduating in Sociology from the University of Kent in 2018, Mariam embarked on a short journey in retail, to explore her career options further and discover volunteering opportunities within her local community before joining the LiC charity.

Mariam’s focus is to guide and support the trainees on their 10-week journey in establishing themselves within the PR & Communications industry whilst also developing her interests further, within the industry.

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