Meet Our Trainers

The collective experience of our training providers is widely recognised and extensive.
 
Gordon Atkins
Gordon is a qualified, experienced and engaging trainer who delivers training to professionals across Hampshire and Portsmouth. He has worked with young people for over 20 years and has particular experience with young people who have been identified as having special needs. He has worked in sexual health for over a decade.
 
Rosemary Blackmore
Rose is an experienced health development officer proficient in the promotion of healthy eating. She is a qualified teacher, with extensive experience in the delivery of professional and community based training, talks and facilitation. Rose works in collaboration with a number of partners to provide a variety of programmes and public health initiatives.
 
Hannah Byrne
Hannah works as a health development officer specialising in social marketing. She has worked with a variety of partner organisations on social marketing public health projects, empowering colleagues with knowledge and tools to use social marketing to support their work streams since 2008.
 
Clare Caister
Clare has six years experience working with challenging, vulnerable community groups within Portsmouth, specialising in teenage pregnancy. Her Sex and Relationship Education delivery is recognised as excellent practice. Her sessions are motivational and engaging, empowering young people to make important decisions about their health and future.
 
Andy Caldow
Andy has a proven track record of providing quality education and information to young people and adults on all aspects of smoking prevention and cessation, sexual health and communication skills. His excellent interpersonal and communication skills ensure learning outcomes are accessible, inclusive and engaging.
 
Carolyn Cosgrove
Carolyn’s knowledge and experience has been developed from a long career in the hospitality industry before qualifying as a teacher in 2000. She delivers a wide range of food and health topics, facilitating sessions with adult learners and teaching at post 16 level.
 
Carole Druce
Carole is an experienced young persons and sexual health nurse and has lead the Chlamydia screening programme in Portsmouth since September 2009. She has over 25 years of experience working with young people in a variety of settings and is passionate about young people having access to good quality sexual health education and holistic care.
 
Louise Gadsby
Louise’s training is young people centred and she is passionate about what they have to say. She enables participants to feel empowered to communicate effectively with the young people with whom they work. Louise has been a Sex Sense young person’s advisor since May 2009 and has led on developing the Working with Girls and Young Women training.
 
Jayne Gentle
Jayne is a highly experienced and versatile home economist; adaptable in the delivery of specific and targeted outcomes for a variety of audiences and ages. Jayne is accomplished in the delivery of training and teaching practical sessions, talks, demonstrations and facilitation. Jayne works in partnership with Public Health on a variety of initiatives and leads on train the trainer for ‘Cooking with Groups’ in Portsmouth.
 
Samantha Hibberd
Sam specialises in young people’s health promotion and is accomplished at partnership working. Sam’s training sessions are fun and engaging and participants leave with a variety of practical tools to motivate and captivate young people. She is currently working on a peer education based project.
 
Caroline Hoar
Caroline is an adaptable and engaging facilitator and trainer whose experience spans over two decades in nursing, midwifery and public health. She has experience of delivering evidence based learning sessions to both fellow professionals and the general public on breastfeeding, solid foods and post-natal weight loss. Caroline currently works as a Health Visitor specialising in healthy weight for children from pre-birth to five years of age.
 
Kelly Huggett
Kelly is a highly knowledgeable and versatile trainer with many years experience of delivering training in Portsmouth and other local authority settings to professionals, teenage parents and young people. Kelly’s dedication and enthusiasm towards her role has led her to be shortlisted for the Brook Award – Sexual Health Practitioner of the Year.
 
Kelly Hunter
Kelly initially trained as a nurse in 1996 and since then has worked extensively in mental health and substance misuse services. She joined the alcohol interventions team in 2009 and delivers alcohol awareness raising training to a variety of audiences. Kelly is passionate that training should be fun and interactive and thoroughly enjoys the diversity of each training session.
 
Asha Lal
Asha’s background is in physical education, sport and healthy eating. She is an experienced trainer, facilitating sessions and workshops and teaching both in a one-to-one and group setting. Asha is a versatile communicator and has experience of working with both young people and adults.
 
Linda Long
Linda is a qualified teacher with extensive experience teaching across a variety of ages in various settings. Dedicated to life-long learning, Linda’s delivery style encourages those who attend her courses to become active participants in their own learning through self discovery linked to targeted and specific outcomes that meet changing priorities in workforce development.
 
Lee Loveless
Lee is a highly experienced trainer and facilitator with a dynamic and motivating style. Lee delivers nationally recognised, evidence based and bespoke courses to a diverse audience of participants. His specialisms are in mental health and workforce development.
 
Jane Ward
Jane has over 20 years experience in the drug and alcohol field that includes; working with adults, young people, training, management, commissioning and research. She is a qualified trainer specialising in multi-disciplinary training including accredited programmes. Her training develops the knowledge, skills and attitudes of staff and volunteers to provide better outcomes for young people and their parents and carers.
 
Andrea Wright
Andrea leads on the obesity agenda, predominately managing projects and staff and working strategically with a range of partners across the city to achieve better health outcomes. Andrea is a highly experienced facilitator, delivering both theoretical and practical sessions in the form of workshops, training and conferences locally, regionally and nationally.