Meet the Team

Director and Head of Commercial Partnerships and EDI

Ann Marie is a passionate perinatal educator and doula who believes every mother deserves an informed voice and a positive, empowered birth experience. Her work is driven by a mission to look critically at doula practices and the wider maternity sector, ensuring they are truly fit for purpose in the 21st century.

In her role with Doula UK, Ann Marie bridges her doula heart with a sharp commercial mind. She draws on her extensive corporate background as a Digital Marketing Strategist Director to forge meaningful partnerships and champion diverse and inclusive practices. Her goal is to build sustainable, strategic alliances that elevate the profession, increase access to doula support, and ensure the organisation's growth benefits every member and the families they serve.

When she's not advocating for the future of doula care or supporting clients through their antenatal journey, Ann Marie enjoys singing professionally or cooking at weddings, birthday’s or corporate events.

Director and Head of Community Engagement

Mum to three home-born boys, Charlie is a doula living and working in Bristol, where she also works in events. Charlie officially began her doula training in 2020, but was already making art connected to the maternal form, in her teens. Charlie volunteers with Doula UK as a Director, and has a particular interest in speaking with members to help improve the Doula UK community experience. As well as being a busy doula, she is a School Governor, volunteers with Project Mama to support refugee and asylum seeker mummas, and with Mothers for Mothers, a perinatal mental health charity in Bristol. Charlie relaxes with yoga, twice-weekly saunas and the odd game of cricket.  

Director and Head of Operations

Sara is a doula based in Northern Ireland and part of the collective Doulas of NI. She is passionate about birth, rights in childbirth and women’s choices, and has over 15 years experience in developing and delivering adult, learner-centred education.

Finance Director

Katrina joined the volunteer Leadership Team as Head of Finance in May 2017. Katrina works in retail finance at the Furness Building Society and holds a DFSM diploma in financial services management. She has been a member of Doula UK since 2007.

Infant Feeding Chair

Trudi Dawson has been a member of Doula UK since 2007. Over the years she has volunteered as Committee Secretary, Magazine Editor, Mentor, Course Assessor and Director of Engagement. Trudi is a Birth and Postnatal doula, Antenatal Teacher, Infant Feeding Specialist, Holistic Sleep Coach and RYT 325hrs Yoga Instructor. She lives in East Sussex with her three children, three cats and should learn to say ‘no’ more. 

Access Fund Coordinator

Kimberly (aka The Birth Doula UK) lives in Essex with her husband and two daughters aged 5 and 7. She has been a doula since 2020, prior to that Kimberly was a hypnobirthing instructor for several years and before that worked in London in various corporate roles around policy, process change, and project management.

Business, Operations and Support Assistant and Safeguarding Lead (Staff)

Michele is a Birth and Postnatal Doula working across Derbyshire, committed to ensuring that families feel heard, informed, and cared for as they welcome new life. Her work is driven by a belief in the importance of compassion, choice, and support during the perinatal period. Beyond her doula work, Michele is an active volunteer with Derbyshire Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership, Connected Perinatal Support CIC, and Doulas Without Borders. She also supports the wider doula community as the Designated Safeguarding Lead for Doula UK.

Training Coordinator and Company Secretary

Alison Ogier has been a doula since 2012 and has been on the Leadership Team since in various roles. She co-coordinates Training, the Doula Support Network and is the Rep for Essex. She is passionate about choice, doulas, Doula UK and empowering the people we support. She moved from Guernsey to the UK in 1998 and has six children. She is a Chair of Governors; Barnardos Infant feeding volunteer, loves fundraising and her chihuahua.

Communications, Engagement and Fundraising Manager (Staff)

Sarah is a birth doula and mentor based in North Yorkshire. Sarah began her doula career in 2011 and started working for Doula UK in 2019. As part of her role she enjoys producing the conference, newsletters, managing the website, promoting doulas in the press and on social media, organising events, fundraising and supporting volunteers. She is driven by her desire to improve the experience of all families during and after the birth of a baby.

Course Liaison

Sophia has been a birth and postnatal doula since 2001.  She is a passionate advocate for holistic health and loves to hold space for women as they transition from maiden to mother and beyond.  She is a Homeopath, Clinical Aromatherapist, founder of Hestia's Flame Natural Candles, Reiki Master & Teacher and an M Technique Practitioner and Instructor.  She lives in East Sussex and is mother of four.

Mentoring Coordinator

Tara is a doula working in Belfast as part of the collective Doulas of NI and the owner of The Little Yoga House Belfast, a women's only studio helping women of all life stages feel, strong, confident and safe in their bodies through the nurturing power of yoga,  reflexology and holistic birth support.

She is a mum of 3 children, who are the inspiration for all that she does and loves good food, good cocktails and good craic.