Our Impact
Read our Impact Report 25- 26 to find out more about our work
Our team
Our team of dedicated and passionate staff commit their years of experience, enthusiasm and knowledge to ensuring that Lincolnshire is a place where everyone has the opportunity to be physically active every day.
Emma Tatlow
(she/her)
Chief Executive
Emma is responsible for the strategic direction of the organisation, ensuring the charity is meeting its objectives and requirements of core funders, leading and supporting the team to excel at their work by providing an environment where staff can thrive and feel empowered to achieve Active Lincolnshire's mission.
Passionate about collaboration, Emma believes the best way to make a long-term, sustainable difference in our county’s activity levels and overall health is by enabling partners and people to work together towards our shared vision. She ensures that a focus on inequalities and tackling barriers to participation are core to our work.
Gemma Skaley
(she/her)
Development Director
(Boston, Place Universal, Children & Young People, Physical Activity Sector)
Gemma leads the organisation’s efforts to build a resilient and forward-thinking physical activity sector across Lincolnshire. She drives strategic initiatives focused on developing the sector's workforce, enhancing facilities, and ensuring safe, inclusive environments for everyone to engage in physical activity.
Gemma also provides leadership for the organisation's work with children and young people, aiming to create lasting impact. Aligning these efforts with the Let’s Move Lincolnshire strategy, she connects multiple projects to advocate for change and influence stakeholders, ensuring a healthier, more active future for all.
Clare Williams
(she/her)
Director of People & Operations
Clare provides strategic leadership and oversight of Active Lincolnshire's people, finance, governance and business operations functions, ensuring our organisation has the structures, systems, resources and capabilities to deliver its strategic ambitions. She drives organisational effectiveness, compliance, financial sustainability and a positive, inclusive organisational culture.
Clare has extensive experience in business growth, stakeholder engagement and building effective partnerships. Her expertise in these areas, along with a passion for inclusive leadership and fostering a culture of collaboration, supports Active Lincolnshire's mission and success.
Katie Chapman
(she/her)
Development Director
(East Lindsey, South Holland, Health and Communities)
As Development Director, Katie leads Active Lincolnshire’s place-based investment programmes in East Lindsey and South Holland, working with partners to create long-term, sustainable change and tackle inequalities in access to physical activity.
She brings together organisations, communities and strategic partners to turn local insight into action, while leading teams, supporting learning and influencing wider work across health, wellbeing and active environments.
Richard Bell
(he/him)
Sports Welfare Manager
Richard works with National Governing Bodies of sports (NGBs) and local sports clubs to promote and support effective safeguarding and welfare practices. He is part of the Sport Welfare Officer Network aimed at supporting club welfare officers.
Richard has a wide range of experience in safeguarding and welfare, gained through a variety of previous roles, that enables him to effectively support clubs and organisations.
Ian Brown
(he/him)
Development Manager (Universal)
Ian coordinates our work across
West Lindsey, South Kesteven, North Kesteven and the City of Lincoln, while
leading our approach to tackling inequalities across the county. Working with
partners and communities, managing projects, strengthening local organisations
and using insight and lived experience to help more people be active. Ian also
includes leading on our Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, embedding
inclusion across our organisation and supporting lasting change.
Laura Spurr
(she/her)
Head of Workforce and Skills
Laura is responsible for delivery of our upskilling initiative which offers learning opportunities to individuals working in, or with a desire to work in, the Sport and Physical Activity sector.
With a background in delivery herself, Laura has a passion for supporting community instructors, coaches, aspiring managers and the many other occupations in our sector at all stages of their career.
Niki Shepheard
(she/her)
Strategic Partnerships Lead
Niki builds and strengthen relationships with key partners, stakeholders, and decision-makers across the county. Her role focuses on connecting people, organisations, and communities to create opportunities for greater collaboration, influence policy and system change, and tackle inequalities through sport and physical activity.
By nurturing strategic partnerships, identifying new opportunities for engagement, and evidencing the impact of stakeholder networks, Niki helps ensure we are driving meaningful, long-term change that enables more people to lead active and healthy lives.
Email Niki
07903 266008
Erin Peak
(she/her)
Head of Insight and Evaluation
Erin is responsible for developing and embedding processes and systems to ensure we are a data and learning-led organisation. Her work enables us to make informed decisions to tackle the inequalities that exist in physical activity and ensures that we can share the impact of our work enabling people to lead more active lives.
Erin has extensive experience working in research, data and insight across a range of diverse roles. Her expertise supports Active Lincolnshire to embed monitoring, learning and evaluation processes in our work, track our progress and foster a culture of continuous learning.
Tracey Wilkinson
(she/her)
Development Manager (Mablethorpe, Sutton on Sea & Alford)
Tracey leads on local development projects within the Mablethorpe, Sutton on Sea and Alford place programme. Working across health, care, community and physical activity sectors she helps build partnerships and pathways, and create sustainable local opportunities. She is particularly focused on strengthening the role of physical activity in supporting people with long-term health conditions and enabling older adults to live active, healthy lives
Dario Tanzillo
(he/him)
Active Community Connector - South Holland
Dario supports our place-based work in South Holland. His role is focused on understanding the areas we are working in, building trusted relationships and collecting information and insight to help us overcome barriers and support people to be more active. His role also has a focus on active travel, looking at how to improve opportunities for people to walk and cycle in the district.
Dario is hosted by LCVP in South Holland, this enables him to be fully embedded in the area by working alongside their experienced Community Connecters.
Michael O'Connor
(he/him)
Director of Communications
Michael leads Active Lincolnshire's communications, shaping our strategic approach, and developing powerful narratives that articulate impact, influence system-level change and champion the role of physical activity in tackling health inequalities.
Charlotte Pedley
(she/her)
Digital Communications Lead
Charlotte helps brings the work that Active Lincolnshire does across the county to life through our digital channels. She is responsible for creating engaging website, e-newsletter and social media content that supports, informs and inspires the people we work with.
Alexandra Williams
(she /her)
Content & Campaigns Lead
Alexandra is responsible for creating compelling content and delivering campaigns that engage communities and stakeholders and showcase our impact. She works with partners and press across Lincolnshire to share news stories and content to generate awareness of the benefits and importance of physical activity.
Jake Davies
(he/him)
Events & Engagement Lead
Jake is responsible for planning and delivering engagement and networking events, including our annual Sport and Physical Activity Awards. He also works closely with physical activity providers and clubs across Lincolnshire to develop listings on the Let's Move Lincolnshire Activity Finder, helping to strengthen our networks and ensure people can easily find opportunities to get active.
Emily Trevey
(she/her)
Business Operations Lead
Emily supports the essential functions of our charity. She ensures effective governance and business administration through ensuring the highest standards of policies and procedures are developed and implemented, contributing to our vision of enabling more people to be more active more often.
Emily leads on the implementation of governance and compliance including the Code of Sports Governance and acting as secretary to the Board of Trustees.
Sophia Berladyn
(she/her)
Finance Manager
Sophia is responsible for maintaining Active Lincolnshire's financial controls, preparing reports, supporting budget management, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations and governance requirements. She supports the organisation’s financial health and strategic planning.
Sophia has extensive experience of working in finance; she is AAT qualified and is currently working to gain her CIMA qualification.
Please note: Sophia is currently on maternity leave. For any enquiries please email accounts@activelincolnshire.com
Tracey Jackson
(she/her)
Development Manager (Boston)
Tracey leads on the local development projects as part of our Boston place based work. She works closely with local partners and community assets, and activity providers to create sustainable opportunities for people to be active.
Nathan Wetton
(he/him)
Development Manager - Children & Young People
Nathan leads on the Children and Young people strand of our Boston place programme. He works closely with schools, local partners and providers as well as well as young people and families to create better routes for young people to be active in the Boston area.
Alice Carter
(she/her)
Head of Development (PUO)
Alice oversees the effective delivery of Sport England Place Universal offer in West Lindsey, North Kesteven, South Kesteven and Lincoln. She manages programme delivery and budgets and works with partners and colleagues across these districts to deliver measurable reductions in inequality and support more active lives.
Kat Astley
(she/her)
Finance Manager (maternity cover)
As Finance Manager Kat is responsible for running our finance processes, internal controls, and financial reporting. She is also supporting us with setting up new financial workflows and planned organisational financial growth.
For any invoices and payment queries, please email Accounts@ActiveLincolnshire.com
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