Meet The Feeding Trust Team
We have a well-rounded team of occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, dieticians and clinical psychologists who offer full assessments and the right treatments, all in one place, for children and young people who have significant feeding difficulties.
Click on the professional below to be taken to their specialty page and find out more about them.
Natalie Raven Morris // CEO & Founder //
Lucy Bates // Clinical Director
// Occupational Therapist
Karen Sheffield
Speech & Language Therapist
Lucy Upton
Dietitian
Andrea Matthews
Charlotte Sireshuk
Our Trustees
Hilary Wetherell
Board member
Hilary is a partner for Irwin Mitchell’s Serious Injury team in Birmingham. She lives in rural Worcestershire and, when not leading a team of 5 lawyers, spends her spare time on long walks, gardening and attempting to restore a very old 9 acre orchard.
Hilary works with people who have experienced a range of injuries including brain injury, polytrauma and severe burns. She is extremely proud to be able to work with some truly inspirational clients and to provide the “expert hand, human touch” that they and their families need during their long rehabilitation process. She is passionate about ensuring that clients receive comprehensive, realistic advice and hopes to support The Feeding Trust with achieving this for our clients.
Helen Grindulis
Board member
Helen has over 30 years experience working as a consultant paediatrician in multi-disciplinary teams with children with disabilities, including leading up a specialist paediatric feeding team at Sandwell General Hospital .
She has also worked in clinical management within the NHS and has a wealth of knowledge regarding governance, professional standards and competencies. Helen is acutely aware how difficult and complicated feeding problems can be for a child and family. She retired in 2018 and hopes that she can use her knowledge and experience to help guide the work of the Feeding Trust. This includes providing in-depth staff appraisals.
Hannah Daw
Board member
Hannah is Mother to Lucas, a little boy who had eating issues early on in life and was fully tube fed up until the age of 3. Hannah approached The Feeding Trust, and worked with Lucy and Karen to build Lucas’ confidence with food and successfully tube weaned him in 2018.
During this time, she began @thelucasladder on Instagram to share her experiences, document Lucas’ tube wean and connect with others who also faced feeding challenges. Hannah now spends her time running around after a cheeky little boy who eats anything and everything in large quantities, a dream she never thought would be realised! She is still active with her Instagram account, sharing ideas on encouraging oral skill building and showing their journey from tube fed to food fed. She is also a strong advocate of the SOS approach, which gave her back her family life.