Our team
Founder & CEO
Debs Peake
Founding Know Your Worth is Debs’ dream come true. She has always loved teaching, supporting and mentoring teens. After 10 years in secondary education and seeing first hand the needs in the classroom and the council estate where she lived in Oxford, she left her teaching job and focussed on setting up and establishing Know Your worth. She absolutely loves seeing teenage girls grow self-esteem and confidence.
She now lives in Macclesfield, Cheshire with her husband and two kids and loves nature, reading, speaking Spanish, travelling and a morning coffee!
Southern Lead & Facilitator
Emilie Middleton
Emilie is an enthusiastic communicator, all out people person and a big champion of young women. Having spent a number of years working and volunteering within children and youth settings, she was very excited to come on board the Know Your Worth team as a Course Facilitator to help Debs expand the work of this wonderful charity. Emilie will now be taking on the role of Southern Lead as Debs takes Know Your Worth to the North of the UK.
Emilie lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and loves spending her spare time playing a variety of sports, reading, playing Nintendo Switch, drinking tea and stopping to pet any dog she comes across.
Associate
Miriam Allaby
Miriam is very excited about having joined the team at Know Your Worth and getting the opportunity to work with teenage girls across Oxfordshire. She is passionate about working with young women: particularly in supporting them in their journey of discovering their value and sense of self.
Miriam loves creativity and exploring art as an expressive means, as well as building community, and making others feel really loved and supported. She is really excited to join the team and create safe spaces for young woman to flourish, as they realise just how wonderful they are.
Freelance Creative Designer
Ruth Gass
Ruth is a freelance creative designer who runs her own business and dedicates time towards Know Your Worth on a freelance basis. She has an innate ability to make things look beautiful and has a real eye for detail, using that to organise and design events.
Ruth helps Know Your Worth with branding, such as the participant and facilitator manuals and prepares all of the goody bags. She will give anything creative a try, including panelling for her stairs! Ruth resides in Oxford with her husband and has a son and daughter.
OUR TRUSTEES
CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
RACHAEL POWER
Rachael began her career as a teacher but then moved into education roles within the Charity Voluntary sector. She has gained a wealth of experience from working across many different areas of the sector including, homelessness, community development, good relations and social housing.
Outside of work Rachael is an advocate for Mental Health and hosts a podcast called "And How Did That Make You Feel"; where she interviews guests about their experiences in therapy and counselling to try and normalise talking openly about mental health.
Rachael Power has recently been appointed as AMH Works Manager at Action Mental Health.
Victoria Brown
Victoria is an experienced marketing manager at Rothschild & Co Wealth Management with over a decade of expertise in financial services marketing.
She understands the profound impact self-perception can have on one’s future potential. Inspired by Know Your Worth’s mission to boost young people’s self-esteem, Victoria is eager to support the organisation in expanding its reach and positively influencing more young lives.
Nailah James
Nailah would describe herself as a Black Autistic woman, who has a passion for understanding what makes her, others and the world tick. She's interested in sustaining wellness, what is making us unwell and what can make us well. Nailah's interests have led her to a BA in Geography and International Development, an obsession with Star Trek and her position as trustee for Know Your Worth.
Elspeth Dolega-Ossowski
Elspeth is fundraiser and volunteer matchmaker at The Fore, a venture philanthropy fund supporting small grassroot charities across the UK. She studied business at the University of Leeds and has a passion for using business practices and models to create social change.
Growing up in a girl’s school in the London borough of Lewisham, Elspeth is committed to helping teenage girls with their confidence and self-esteem through supporting the mission of Know Your Worth.
“I wish something like this existed when I was a teenager”
~ Parent of Know Your Worth Participant ~