Meet the Team

Josie has been with Restore for over 8 years now, starting as a volunteer and now working as Project Lead. It has been an incredible journey, with lots of learning and she is keen to ensure we continue to privilege the voice of the women we support in all of our work. Josie graduated from Derby Uni with a degree in Creative expressive therapies and tries to bring this into her work as she recognises the freedom and power of play and creativity. Josie loves asking questions and hearing the stories of every woman that we support, to ensure that we create bespoke and individual support, breaking any stigma or taboo around the sex industry. She loves baking, dancing and playing with her two young boys and spending time with friends.

Lianne is our Outreach Co-ordinator and feels privileged to be able to encourage, empower and get alongside women who sometimes may need help seeing and realising their true worth and potential. In her spare time she loves spending time exploring the great outdoors with her husband and three children.

Lesley, retired from a lifetime working in various roles in accountancy in industry and charitable organisations. She is a trustee/treasurer of a small mental health charity. An active member of St. Peter’s Church, Littleover and through prayer ministry has a passion for people to receive healing and wholeness and freedom in Christ. She enjoys music, walking with friends and family, spending time observing nature, creating a garden for wildlife and holding charitable events that bring people together over tea, coffee and cake.

Simon is passionate about prayer, mission and social justice. He works as a ‘Community Vicar’ in Normanton, Rose Hill and Pear Tree where he focuses his work on building bridges between the church, local community projects and statutory organisations. He has been overseeing a significant redevelopment of St Thomas Church which is reopening as a community hub and has helped establish a New Monastic Community based in the St Thomas' Building. He is also acting as the ‘Area Dean’ helping the Bishop oversee Anglican churches across Derby.

Simon is the UK Director of World Horizons, Chair of Trustees at Intercultural Churches UK and Chair of Derby City Vision. Along with his wife Gaynor, he leads The Source, a fresh community-based venture in Derby’s University Quarter. As a trained Spiritual Director, Simon has a passion for seeing people flourish in all aspects of life and as a musician loves seeing people from diverse backgrounds connect through the gift of music and song.

Sheralyn began her legal career in 2010 at Nottingham Law School. She passed her Graduate Diploma in Law with a Commendation and went on to study the Legal Practice Course, completing this with Distinction and then achieved an LLM with Commendation on the study of Family Law in other jurisdictions. Sheralyn has worked in several law firms before setting up Derby Legal Assistance. Sheralyn is a Fellow of the Institute of Paralegals. Sheralyn has previously worked for Hope for Justice (anti-slavery charity) and volunteers for Derby City Mission. She is currently in the process of setting up a business to provide employment opportunities for trauma survivors.