Bikeability Lesson

Meet The Team

HDSF has a dedicated team and regular volunteers. The team is led by the Charity Operations Manager, Ros Cramp.

Our Staff

Charlie - HDSF Lead Instructor

Charlie

Department: Staff
Charlie is our Senior Instructor for HDSF – with ridiculously high energy levels and enthusiasm. All of our participants and parents love Charlie’s smiles, especially our junior adventure sessions where you’ll find him climbing mountains, swimming across oceans and much,…
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John - HDSF instructor

John

Department: Staff
John is an instructor with HDSF who has decades of experience working in Herts County Council Day Services.  When retirement from HCC was mentioned, some gentle encouragement to join the HDSF team may have been applied! John’s knowledge of Day…
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Herts Disability Sports Foundation

Ollie

Department: Staff
Ollie has joined the team as a bike mechanic to work on our Bikes without Barriers programme for adults. Ollie likes supporting people learning about bikes maintenance as well as working out solutions when reconditioning bikes.
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Head and shoulder photo of Pam

Pam

Department: Staff
Pam has joined the team having recently retired as a teacher. Pam is supporting sessions at Stanborough Park, in schools as well as working with our our community team.
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Ros - HDSF Charity Operations Manager

Ros

Department: Staff
Ros is the Charity Director of HDSF and has been with the charity from day 1, when it began life as Herts Sport and Wellbeing Foundation. In her previous life, Ros was a secondary school teacher – is a qualified…
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Sine

Department: Staff
Having worked for HDSF up until 2 years ago, I was so pleased to come back to become the charity’s Chief Operating Officer. My time away from HDSF was really interesting (working in a bookshop was my childhood dream) but…
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DJ / Bingo Stoney- HDSF staff

Stoney

Department: Staff
Stoney is a Lead Instructor for HDSF who began life as a serial volunteer who will do anything for anyone.  We initially convinced him to join our staff team to support our sessions for people with dementia and their families.…
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Nessa

Vanessa

Department: Staff
Nessa is a Paralympic athlete who competed in Rio and Tokyo – but she’s also an Instructor for HDSF.  Ness competes in the F34 shot and she has , She achieved Gold in the 2018 European Para Championships, and Bronze…
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Our Volunteers

Abbie

Abbie

Department: Volunteers
Abbie is a volunteer with HDSF Abbie started out as a participant on our adapted cycling sessions at Stanborough Park, and quickly tried out many more activities. Abbie very quickly showed her desire to want to do more than just…
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Alice

Alice

Department: Volunteers
Alice is a volunteer for Herts Disability Sports Foundation. Alice is with the team one day a week supporting sessions at day services.  Alice has made positive relationships with many of the participants and supports the delivery of dance, boccia…
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Jamie - HDSF volunteer

Jamie

Department: Volunteers
Jamie was part of our Instructability programme back in 2017, where people with disabilities are supported to become fitness instructors.  Jamie has remained with the HDSF team as a volunteer assisting mainly in cycling and outdoor activities at Stanborough Park.…
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Karen

Karen

Department: Volunteers
Karen’s enthusiasm to establish appropriate activities for children with SEND who are home educated has resulted in a variety of sessions each week.  Her varied personal experience has made her an invaluable sounding board, who checks and challenges in a…
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Maria - HDSF volunteer

Maria

Department: Volunteers
Para Athlete representing England at Commonwealth Games 2018 in T35 100m at the Gold Coast.  Maria was a member of staff until securing a full time role in her chosen profession, but still volunteers with HDSF
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Martina - HDSF volunteer

Martina

Department: Volunteers
Martina is a Para Athlete achieving 4th place in World Championships 2017 in T20 long jump. Martina volunteers with HDSF in the holidays on our sessions for young people, helping to inspire children and parents by seeing what she has…
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Pete

Pete

Department: Volunteers
Pete is the youngest member of the team, who started volunteering with HDSF as part of his home education programme. He has grown in confidence tremendously over the past 4 years, and as a result of the skills and experience…
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Ryan holding an award

Ryan

Department: Volunteers
Ryan became a participant in 2020 when lockdown forced all of his regular daily activities to stop.  Ryan attended the pilot online sessions with his friends from the Eagles Boccia Club and with a month he was attending sessions with…
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Sue

Sue

Department: Volunteers
Sue is our amazing volunteer fundraiser Sue has worked tirelessly to identify and write grant applications for the past 3 years.  She listens to our mad ideas and formulates them into funding applications that have been incredibly successful. Without Sue…
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Our Trustees

Aihab

Aihab

Department: Trustees
My role as the Treasurer for HDSF is to train staff on the accounts function and then oversee the financials, suggest ways to improve the internal control process and advise on the improvement of the financial reporting and analysis and treasury function. I…
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Photo of Alex

Alex

Department: Trustees
I have many happy childhood memories of taking part in horse riding with riding for the disabled, cycling on my adapted trike and swimming at my local sport centre. In all these activities I benefited from advice and support from…
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Maria

Maria

Department: Trustees
Maria is an experienced risk manager, predominately in the financial services industry, with knowledge of corporate risk and charity governance, and has been a trustee of the HDSF board since 2017. Maria is a Business Management Graduate from Middlesex Business…
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Nicky

Nicky

Department: Trustees
  Nicky works for a management consultancy specialising in sports and leisure. Part of this work includes advising Councils on facility and service interventions to help encourage people with disabilities to increase their participation in physical activity. Previous to this…
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Patrick

Patrick

Department: Trustees
Chair of trustees I have been working in the Disability, Leisure, Dance and Movement sector for over 15 years with the last ten primarily focused on using Dance and Movement as a tool to drive positive change in the local…
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Sarah

Sarah

Department: Trustees
Sarah has been a trustee since October 2017. Whilst her career has spanned 20 years in Local Authority Housing, she joined the board of trustees to become the parent voice. Sarah has 2 daughters who both have physical disabilities, the…
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Photo of Tom

Tom

Department: Trustees
Having become a tetraplegic and full-time wheelchair user following a Rugby injury in 2010, I am passionate about organisations that deliver fun activities for disabled people.  During my time working at the Herts Sports Partnership, I have had the opportunity…
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