Abbey graduated from the University of Hull in 2019 with a Psychology degree and completed a postgraduate certificate in ADHD in 2023. As well as being neurodivergent herself, Abbey has gained experience working in a number of different charities before coming to Matthew's Hub. She is passionate about supporting people to better understand themselves and their diagnoses, and increasing awareness and knowledge of neurodivergence. Abbey is currently completing a diploma in Transformative Coaching and working towards becoming an accredited coach. Her role at Matthew's Hub predominantly involves providing one to one mentoring and coaching with adults and young people.

Angie has taught for Cornerhouse sexual health service delivering PSHE/ RSE in Hull schools for 20 years before joining Matthew’s Hub to become a mentor after being diagnosed as autistic and ADHD in her 40s. Now Angie writes and delivers our Autism and ADHD workshops and training sessions.

She feels that Matthew’s Hub and its staff helped her immensely during the assessment process, and she is grateful to be able to support others in a similar way.

Angie has an HND in Social Care and a degree in Gender Studies, Sociology & Anthropology, she also has PGSE and Level 5 Leadership & Management qualifications.

Betty studied law and graduated from Nottingham University in 2017. She went on to work as a personal care assistant for a young boy with Angelman Syndrome helping him to access the world more easily. 

Betty has worked as a Teaching Assistant providing 1-1 support within a post-16 Special Educational Needs provision, helping young people to gain employment and develop their functional skills.

Betty has considerable experience working with young people and their families in education, coaching and supportive roles and has a passion for inclusion and promoting independence. 

She works with our members to support them to initiate, sustain and improve relationships; and to develop life skills and confidence, through offering activities and mentoring to achieve life goals. 

Carl has worked in the field of autism for over 20 years and holds a MA in Autism.

Before Carl joined the team at Matthew’s Hub he mentored autistic undergraduate students at the University of Hull.

Carl is one of the authors of The Neurodiversity Reader’ and Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning.

Dagmara is a neurodivergent professional who supports parents and carers of our members through regular contact, activities, and events. She previously led a charity in Poland and has also worked as a Teaching Assistant in a school for children with mental health difficulties. 

She’s a qualified Sensory Play Trainer with a strong interest in sensory processing difficulties, ADHD, and autism. Dagmara is especially passionate about empowering women with ADHD and raising awareness around how it can present differently in women and girls. 

She has been involved with Matthew’s Hub for several years, working on a range of projects, and is committed to helping families feel supported and connected.

Fynn works within the young people’s team at Matthew’s Hub, focusing a lot of his work on the engagement and empowerment of young people; ensuring young people can comfortably access their local community and anything else they hold interest in.

He believes all young people deserve and possess the ability to retain high self-worth and self-confidence.

Fynn has a broad experience supporting ages ranging 9 - 25 years. He has had the privilege of working with a variety of young people, challenges, behaviours and contexts. Previously Fynn supported adults with highly complex learning disabilities and has a considerable amount of experience in that sector. Additionally, he provided 1-1 sessional support with a complex young person.

Fynn became a staff member at Matthew’s Hub via an apprenticeship and originally accessed the service as a member himself.

Grace studied Education at Hull University and graduated in 2016. She has worked with ages ranging from primary through to further education, gaining experience with individuals of all abilities.

Grace has worked a number of years as a Job Coach within a Post-16 Special Educational Needs provision supporting and encouraging young people to develop their skills and independence to help them gain employment. She has also worked strongly with their families to ensure a consistent line of communication and support is maintained.

Grace is passionate about promoting inclusion through client-led decision making to increase self-empowerment and confidence. She has experience liaising with outside agencies to ensure young people are guided towards desired outcomes.

Joanne is a retired Registered Learning Disability Nurse spending 38 years delivering care and support across Hull and East Yorkshire.

She supports our co-expert colleagues who have learning disabilities to deliver the Oliver McGowan Training to local health and social care organisations. This includes one to one personalised support; getting to know each colleague to understand their individual needs to help them into and sustain employment, working through barriers that have prevented them from working in the past. Support around reading & writing and using accessible information, travel and transport, orientation to places of work, development or improvement of other life skills such as use of IT / telephones to enhance their work role are all examples of the input Joanne provides.

Giving people with learning disabilities the opportunity to earn equitable wages and be valued by others and in turn improve their self-esteem, confidence, increased quality of life through social and economic inclusion and promotion of self-determination, choice and independence are the goals of the Oliver McGowan Team at Matthew’s Hub.

John has twenty years of experience working with children, young people and families in a variety of empowering, coaching and supportive roles. John works with our members to help them establish, maintain and improve their friendships and increase their life skills. He works one-to-one and with groups to help our members become confident in making friends and accessing new opportunities in their community.

Katie joined our team in 2017. She is a Registered Mental Health Nurse. She oversees anything to do with our members Mental Health. If a member needs some support a one to one consultation can be arranged. During the consultation, a plan of support is made based around the members individual needs. If the need is more than low level anxiety/low mood Katie can support members to access other mental health services. Katie offers wellbeing support Zoom groups and hosts weekly Women and young people’s groups. Katie is very creative and sometimes hosts the weekly arts and crafts sessions.

Melissa graduated from the University of Hull in 2024 with a Master's in English and Creative Writing. She delivers our Autism and ADHD training and workshops, as well as occasionally hosting creative writing sessions. She has lived experience, being diagnosed with both Autism and ADHD as an adult and wants to use this experience to help others understand themselves better and feel less alone.

In her spare time, Melissa loves to write, play video games and hang out with her cats. Her intense interests include the Star Wars prequel era, x-men and prehistoric mammals, so if you want to know about prehistoric whales, she's your guy.

Nicky works in housing support and oversees anything to do with housing. He provides one-to-one support to those accessing housing related support (HRS). HRS can be accessed by anyone who is neurodiverse, the support helps people to look after their home and themselves. Nicky also helps our members with budgeting, making phone calls on their behalf, attending any appointments with them, accessing any appropriate benefits, help to combat social isolation and to acquire alternative accommodation.

Rob joined Matthew’s Hub in May 2025 as part of the Peer Mentoring team, supporting individuals who have recently received or are seeking an autism diagnosis to better understand what that diagnosis means for him. Since then, his duties have expanded. He supports co-experts who deliver Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in various health and social care settings. He has helped to create ‘Plug In’, a vast database of services and clubs all across Hull & East Riding services, and as part of that he has liased with many other services and charities. He also helps facilitate the Adult Socials and the Emotional Wellbeing & Support sessions with Katie and Kieren. From since the age of 15 he has been working with autistic adults and young people, whether it be as a community support worker or as a care plan co-ordinator, and he was also a personal friend of Matthew Battye who the Hub was named after, so being able to bring his expertise to Matthew’s Hub has been a privilege and a joy for him. When he isn’t working, he’s either writing books, training as a kickboxer, or perforating his ear drums with death metal.

Tamsin graduated from East Riding College in October 2024 with a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, working as a Person-Centred counsellor, registered with the (BACP). She has over 20 years’ experience working within her local community with young children, teenagers and parents in various settings.

Tamsin is our parent coach and offers parent coaching, counselling and social support for our parents.

Tamsin is a parent to three grown up children and one granddaughter. As a parent with lived experiences both through her children and own Autism diagnosis in 2023 alongside training too, it was noticeable that support for parents is very important therefore she is passionate about supporting parents to better understand themselves to help look after their own well-being and to help support their children.

I graduated from the university of Hull in 2019 and during my time in Hull I fell in love with the city especially the aesthetic of the old town. I'd love nothing more than to get my PhD in psychology but it's a long-term goal indeed. I like to occupy my free time with gaming sessions, now more than ever, because I like to think it sets up a great backdrop for a good conversation with friends.

I have a passion for food from different cultures and learning how food can reflect cultural characteristics (and simply for the love of a good meal). I've been told I have a very formal fashion sense, wearing shirt and trousers as my go to casual clothes, my friends have even remarked that if you see me in shorts, I'm either on holiday or an imposter.

Gill has worked in the NHS as a registered nurse, health visitor and senior manager. She has many years’ experience working in safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Gill’s network of professionals within a wide range of organisations helps to develop links and contracts with the NHS, probation, DWP, and local councils. Gill worked as CEO of FIND the parent charity; and along with Kath, developed Matthew’s Hub into the service it is today. Gill works with the Trustee board to ensure the financial sustainability and effective governance of the organisation. She and Kath set the operational objectives; and make sure the growing staff team is well supported.

Kath has many years’ experience working the Health & Social Care Sector with Autistic Adults and Young People. She has lived experience as both a parent and aunt and identifies with the difficulties parents face obtaining the correct support for their children. Kath was instrumental with Gill in setting up and developing Matthew’s Hub, and continues to develop and improve services as need are identified. She has a Health and Social Care diploma, along with a postgraduate qualification in Autism. Kath is passionate about supporting families and Autistic People.

Tracy joined Matthew’s Hub in 2023 bringing a broad range of business experience having worked for many years in both private and NHS sector. Her experience covers a wide range of areas from IT, project management & systems implementations to business management roles.

Tracy works closely with Gill and Kath ensuring the business element of the organisation is supported and providing organisational support to all staff members.

Working at Matthew’s Hub is an absolute privilege, working with people who are passionate about supporting our members and their families for this amazing charity.