Meet the Team

Our Trustees

Helen Feeney

Chair & Founder

Helen is responsible for the running of our organisation and strives to make Bairnecessities as impactful as possible. She leads our team, ensuring our organisation is built with our values at the core of everything we do.

Helen is an NHS Community Nursery nurse, working alongside Health Visitors. It was through this role she saw first-hand how many families across Aberdeenshire were going without items they desperately needed. In 2016, Helen set up Bairnecessities baby bank to try to help.

Aside from her NHS position and her role at Bairnecessities, Helen is also a dance teacher, and is Mum to 3 children.

Rosemary Johnston

Treasurer

Rose oversees all financial aspects of the charity, including the management of our income and expenditure and completing our annual financial reporting. She got involved with Bairnecessities due to her passion for helping, and ensuring every child has the best start in life.

Rose is a staff nurse and has been nursing for 36 years. She has two daughters, and is a Grandmother and Great-Grandmother. In her free time, Rose loves reading, knitting, learning new things and having fun with her Great Granddaughter.

Karen Brown

Vice Chair

Karen is our Vice Chair

Hannah Weston-Yeo

Secretary

As Secretary, Hannah supports with all administrative tasks including the arranging and minuting of trustee and committee meetings. She also works to promote the charity in our local communities, and supports fundraising efforts.

Outside of her role at Bairnecessities, Hannah is a Community Nurse and loves helping people. She spends her free time out on walks with her dog and a good coffee or cosied up reading a good book.

Wendy Cahoon

Clothing Co-ordinator

Wendy is our Clothing Coordinator which involves sorting the clothing donations into age & gender, then bagging them up into individual packs for families when required.

Our Team

Megan Hemming

Development Worker

Megan is our Development Worker and joined the team in 2024 as our first member of staff. She is responsible for fundraising, managing our records and reporting, and also acts as a first point of contact for many aspects of Bairnecessities. Megan joined us with a background in retail, human resources and psychology and has a passion for equality and inclusion.

Emma Mutch

Referrals Coordinator

As our Referrals Coordinator, Emma oversees all aspects of donation distribution. She liaises with both referral and our distribution partners to ensure all referral items are distributed efficiently. Emma helps sort the donations we receive and performs safety checks on them, maintains our stock levels records, and helps put together our referral packs, ready to be distributed to our service users.

Carol Brebner

Referrals Assistant

Carol is part of our referrals team and helps sort donations as well as putting referral packs together, ready for delivery.

Kate Sanders

Social Media Assistant

I am Kate Sanders and my role within Bairnecessities is to run the social media accounts.

I have recently qualified as a staff nurse within the NHS, I love caring for people and making a difference in their lives!

Jill Phillips

Volunteer Coordinator

Jill is our Volunteer Coordinator

Our Committee

This is our committee which is just a small number of our committed volunteer team who help us support so many families. They manage our local Facebook groups, where the community can get in touch to arrange donation drop-offs.

The team also includes many dedicated volunteers, mostly mums on maternity leave and/or with young children, putting in the hours to help ensure no family goes without.