About this speaker
Ellie is Chief Executive of YMCA Together, a medium sized charity delivering psychologically informed support in accommodation settings to people who are experiencing homelessness, domestic abuse, poor mental health or problematic drug or alcohol use across Merseyside.
Ellie has 20 years experience working with excluded groups, 17 of which have been spent within voluntary organisations. She has been with the YMCA for 9 years and in that time has worked improve the impact the organisation has through additional services, engaging health partners strategically and operationally, leading a Consortia of other housing providers through a large tender exercise and implementing a psychologically informed framework that all YMCA Together services work within.
Ellie has recently finished a secondment as Segment Lead for Complex Lives as part of the ICB in Liverpool. Ellie has spent time as a Trustee for a national organisation, Homeless Link and is the Chair of Governors of a local school.