Reuben’s Retreat Team
We are a small hard working team of full and part time staff, greatly supported by our dedicated volunteers.
Nicola Graham: Nicola is Reuben’s Mummy and Founder & Chief Executive of Reuben’s Retreat. Nicola is our vision behind the project who leads and inspires the whole team, volunteers and supporters. Nicola says she feels blessed to walk hand-in-hand every day with her angel Son to deliver his work.
Nicky Dean: Nicky is our Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees, and assists with various project management, HR and health and safety tasks. Nicky also supports our beneficiary work and manages our supporters CSR days.
Rachael Horrocks: Rachael is our Office Manager at our Ashton office. She ensures that our accounting system runs smoothly and supports the co-ordination of many of our events. Rachael also welcomes visitors, responds to supporter enquiries, updates our webshop, and helps to ensure that our families are looked after for our Ashton based support.
Stacey Kirkpatrick: Stacey is our Senior Fundraiser, working alongside our generous corporate contacts and engaging with new ones. Always looking for the opportunity to partnership with local and national businesses.
Lee Davies: Lee is our operations manager and makes sure everything runs smoothly, he is currently working on the move into our retreat!
Harriet Pratt: Harriet is our Children and young peoples champion in our family support team. She loves to create new exciting experiences for families and help them to make special memories.
Deborah Ho: Deborah also works on the Family Support Team as Family & Well-being Champion supporting parents bereaved of a child.
Susan Anders: Susan is our Housekeeper in Glossop. She works two afternoons a week ensuring that The Lodge at Reuben’s is always clean and welcoming for our families and visitors.
Lucy Dean-Moore: Lucy is our Creative Lead and creates all of our digital and print artwork. She also looks after the communications, website and social media content.
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Heidi’s Story
Our Reuben’s Retreat families are always inspiring us! Sarah, Heidi’s Mummy, set up a charity called PEEPS in 2018, supporting families who have been affected by HIE. HIE stands for hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, it is a lack of oxygen to the brain that can cause injury. Please read Sarah’s words below about her amazing little Heidi,…
14th April
Autumn Update
Wow! Autumn is here already and as the beautiful leaves begin to turn, we look forward to cosy evenings and prepare for the next few months here at Reuben’s Retreat. Thanks to your amazing support throughout this challenging year, we are continuing to support families through rain and shine, due to the generous hearts who surround us. Alongside our virtual activities, it’s been a pleasure…
23rd September
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Run for Reuben!
The sponsorship and awareness raised through Running for Reuben has been integral to the charity since we began back in 2012, and we’d love for you to join us this year and help us to turn the streets REUBlue once again! GREAT MANCHESTER RUN – Sunday 26th September 2021 Once again there’s a choice of…
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