NUSHO, the Nu Social Health Organisation, is a not for profit organisation that specialises in setting up Time banks in schools and GP practices, as well as with other community organisations such as housing associations.
Our mission is to deliver high-quality support services to support health and social care aims, empower communities, support young people and improve community cohesion and resilience. Alongside Time Banking UK, our work to help organisations set up time banking is a real example of communities coming together to make a real difference – it is grass roots work that empowers individuals and communities, and we are proud of it.
Jennifer has more than 25 years' experience in the NHS as a district nurse and senior manager. She is a keen advocate of community nursing, is PRINCE 2 trained and has managed many successful projects and consultations. Highly active in her own community, Jennifer is a board member of a charity in a deprived area of West London.
Cynthia is passionate about Time banks and leads many of our projects to create them. She also project manages business development initiatives that involve organisational change and human resource planning. She has over 20 years' experience in strategic HR management and related disciplines, and has held senior level positions in local government, the NHS and the private sector. She has project managed and led organisational change in a wide variety of organisations.
Sonia has worked in NHS clinical, leadership and programme management roles for 35 years, with the last fifteen spent in family health services within inner city boroughs. Sonia is strong advocate of partnership working to improve the quality of services for children. Sonia's experience includes operational and strategic management, partnership working, leading change and implementing policy within complex organisations. She is also a keen volunteer herself and is a trustee of a charity for older adults in a deprived West London estate.
Ruth has 17 years experience working in different clinical and community settings as a nurse, midwife and health visitor. She worked on the Department of Health's Family Nurse Partnership to improve the life chances of pregnant teenagers and their babies. She is a Certified Motivational Coach and Goal Mapping Practitioner with a passion for enabling others to achieve their full potential. Ruth enjoys working with disadvantaged youths and has worked on several projects on a voluntary basis coaching students at risk of exclusion from school and undergraduates students at risk of dropping out. Her special interests include motivation through engagement, working with pregnant teenagers, teenage parents and newly diagnosed HIV patients to promote inclusion, delivering parenting programmes, and childhood obesity. She runs her own coaching business.
Kelley has over 15 years' experience in Health and Social care with a focus in service improvement, change management and transformation. She implemented family group conferencing for criminal justice/youth offending services in East London and created the governance procedures required. Kelly is a clinician with a postgraduate qualification in Public Health and has held posts as an Interim Manager in Clinical Governance, worked as part of a project team to develop a direct provider organisation and tariffs for a service provider in London and facilitated professional development forums for managers as part of a transformational re-structuring.
Gillian has 10 years' experience in the NHS as a senior administrator and has also spent 15 years in the private sector, running her own business. She is PRINCE 2 trained and has extensive people management experience from managing a referral service in the NHS.
Sonia has worked for over 35 years in the adult health sector, including 15 years in adult community health. She has held senior management positions in the NHS from 1996 until recently and was one of the first Community Matrons after an initial Government-sponsored pilot. In the first year of the service, £250,000 cost savings were made. Sonia implemented a major project involving the change of working patterns in district nursing in West Sussex PCT. She is a neuro-linguistic practitioner and is a Reiki Master (non-touch healing).
September 2011
NUSHO support Richard House Children's Hospice
NUSHO supported Richard House Children's hospice in Newham, (the first established Children hospice in London) during a fund raising event at Victoria Station on 30th August 2011. Volunteers from NUSHO Time bank included three young people who would not have traditionally volunteered. The three young people are, Akua Appiah, Michael Brown-Appiah and Lewis Ross. This is an example of how voluntary organisations can obtain additional support by reaching an untapped resource of volunteers through time banking. The amount collected was £244.00.
August 2011
Nusho meet the founder of Time bank
The Nusho team were delighted to meet with Edgar Cahn the founder of Time bank. Edgar S. Cahn started out as a law professor, was Bobby Kennedy’s speech writer and a civil rights campaigner. He is now best known as the originator of Time banking, which operates in 22 countries throughout the world. Edgar hit upon this revolutionary idea while recovering in hospital from a heart attack. For the first time in his life he was dependent on others and unable to repay the people who were caring for him.
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