Our Team
Karen Haworth: Managing Director Founder
Karen Haworth has a degree in adult education and professional development. She is the Founder of Brain Health Breakthrough CIC, and a female leader who is building a social enterprise from her own "lived in experience." She has nurtured a team and networks to ensure that they are reaching those most in need. She has a wealth of over 30 years experience in the Health and Social care sector and Adult Education and brings a mix of empathy, theoretical knowledge, tools, and innovative approaches to her work, which she has developed holistically throughout her career. She has crafted bespoke Brain Health Breakthrough CIC programmes for health and wellbeing solutions for individuals and organisations.
Hannah Beeko Non Executive Director
I provide corporate training on life skills such as stress management, efficiency, time and energy management as well as life/business success planning.
My mission is to enable as many people as possible to live a life they love.
I founded Authentically Speaking, a training and coaching business in 2016 and I am a certified leadership coach and trainer.
“It all starts with happiness for me. When we take care of our mental health and well-being, we are able to be the very best version of ourselves in our private lives and our business and career. Happiness has a big impact on productivity, effectiveness and profit!”
I have an open, honest and genuine approach which builds trust with people. My style is a mixture of coaching and training which helps people to make positive and lasting change to their life and business to create happiness.
Jane Colbourne Co-facilitator
Jane is a long-COVID survivor and co-facilitator for the Brain Health Breakthrough long-COVID support groups. She is also an events producer, performance poet, and freelance writer on science, nature & culture. She has past experience in complementary therapies, care work and tuition.
Cara Rimmer Co-facilator
Long covid since April 2020
In July I joined the team at Brain Health Breakthrough as a Peer Support Facilitator.
Previously worked as a support worker for people with learning difficulties/disabilities and Mental Health in educational and private settings.
My passion is supporting individuals to reach their full potential by working with them to remove barriers, promote independence and enrichment in order for them to feel empowered.
Susannah Longworth Volunteer Co-ordinator
Experiences complex health needs and is an expert by experience, she is a
qualified, person-centered, and integrative therapy counellor and has previous experience on placement with Brain Health Breakthrough in 2022
Suzzi is a new addition to the team, joining us in January 2024, and oversees counsellors from Blackburn Univeristy who are on placement with us. This enables BrainHealth Breakthrough CIC to offer one-to-one counselling to our community groups.
Suzzi also oversees volunteers across all our programs and helps us increase our capacity to take on volunteers within Brain Health Breakthrough.
Admin Support
We're a small team and although we can get most of the work done in-house, we sometimes seek the help of freelance remote workers.
The virtual assistants we work with are highly qualified and hard working. Their part-time help with website copy, proofreading and formatting documents is integral to the running of Brain Health Breakthrough CIC and they are most certainly a really valued part of the team.
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