Management and Operations

Our management team is made up of individuals who bring not only professional insight but also invaluable lived experience to everything we do. Each member of the team has a personal connection to the challenges and realities faced by people living with obesity. This shared experience fuels our commitment to compassionate leadership, informed decision-making, and meaningful change.

By drawing on their own journeys, our team ensures that the voices of those with lived experience are at the heart of every conversation, strategy, and service we deliver.

Our Management Team

Ken Clare

Executive Director

Ken has been living with obesity all his life. Starting in childhood he watched his mums struggles. He was bullied at school and put on weight at a steady rate through adolescence and into adulthood.

He had tried every treatment available until starting in weight management in 1999 and Bariatric surgery 2002.

Alison Lake

Director of Operations

Alison has had a varied career in nursing and mental health. She is an experienced project manager and is passionate about PPIE and hearing the unheard voices.

She has lived experience of Obesity and mental health challenges. She also works as a PPIE coordinator and for other charities.

Andrew Healing

Director of Compliance & Communications

Andrew has lived with obesity his entire adult life after struggling with weight in high school. He had weight-loss surgery in 2014, losing 14 stone, but later regained weight. Now, he is losing weight with medication.

He is passionate about helping others—obesity is a disease, and setbacks are not personal failures.

Our Operations Team

Our operations team are the people who keep things running day to day. What makes this team truly special is that every member brings their own lived experience of obesity to the role.

They understand the realities, the challenges, and the triumphs that come with living with obesity, and they use that insight to shape how we deliver support, create resources, and engage with our community. Their experience isn’t just valued, it’s vital to ensuring that everything we do is grounded in empathy, relevance, and authenticity.

Helen Atkinson

Administrative Assistant

Bianca Scollen

Knowledge coordinator

Having lived with obesity for as long as she can remember and attended her first slimming club at the age of 10. In 2004, Bianca had bariatric surgery, and since then, she's been an active volunteer, trustee, and advocate across various organisations. Having also facilitated a support group in Leeds for 16 years, she is passionate about making a difference and giving back the same support she received over the years—truly believing that helping others helps her, too.

Professionally, she works as a private practice manager for two consultant surgeons. Outside of work, Bianca is married is mum to a wonderful daughter who is a mental health nurse and currently training as a cognitive behavioural therapist.

I’m proud and honoured to be part of this community.

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