Our Board and Team in the UK
Hamlin Fistula UK Trustees meet four times a year to monitor programme funding, fundraising activities, strategic planning, and governance.
Honorary President
Malcolm S Hewitt OBE MA (Oxon), Honorary President
Malcolm has been a member of Hamlin Fistula UK for over 20 years and was Chairman from 2011 – 2019. Malcolm was also appointed to the board of Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia from 2018 – 2022. In his professional life he was the Headteacher of a large secondary school in the West Midlands, becoming National President of the Secondary Heads Association in 1993. He then went on to train and assess those wanting to become Headteachers. He was awarded the OBE in 2000 for services to education. He has served as a Justice of the Peace in the Birmingham District of the UK and also as Chairman of the Board of Visitors at an open prison for young offenders.
Trustees
Greg Morris, Chair
Greg joined the board of Hamlin Fistula UK in 2014 and became Chair in 2019. He has visited Ethiopia many times during his time on the board of Hamlin Fistula UK. Before he retired, Greg was a senior officer in a local authority, having come from a background in teaching. He worked mostly in the areas of schools and children, leading the authority’s work to improve school leadership, teaching and standards of achievement. As well, he made a major contribution to improving the authority’s performance across all aspects of its work involving children.
Marchu Belete
Born in Ethiopia and now based between there and the UK, Marchu Belete brings over two decades of experience in women’s rights, leadership, and strategic development. She has worked extensively with marginalised women affected by forced migration and gender-based violence, championing their rights and recovery. Currently Co-Director at Migration Exchange, she previously led transformative work as Chief Executive at Hibiscus Initiatives and served as a deputy director at Women for Refugee Women. Her work has spanned from UK Parliament to grassroots projects in Ethiopia, always rooted in values of dignity, justice, and empowerment. Deeply moved by Hamlin Fistula’s holistic model of care, Marchu is delighted to support its mission as a trustee.
Mark Greaves
Mark joined the Board in 2025 as the Board member responsible for finance and chairs the finance committee. After graduating from Durham University, Mark qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand and then joined SG Warburg for 10 years as an investment banker. Subsequently, he was one of the founders and directors of The Concerto Group, an event management and catering business, which he helped sell in 2017. Until he retired in May 2025, he was Group Director of Finance for The Stowe Group. He has worked as a non-executive in the charitable sector for a number of other charities.
Libby Grundy MBE
Libby has spent most of her career in the charitable sector. For ten years she was CEO of a national charity, the Council for Environmental Education, and for five years Director of the Food for Life Partnership, a Big Lottery funded programme to improve the health and nutrition of school children. She was, for four years, a trustee of Kids Run Free, a national charity promoting physical activity for children, and has been a governor of her local primary school since 2017.
Hewete Haileselassie
Hewete is a former BBC journalist and Communications Director. She joined the board of Hamlin Fistula UK in August 2022. Prior to pivoting into Communications in 2023 Hewete spent 15 years at the BBC World Service where she held a variety of journalism roles, from working as a field producer across Africa to running entry-level trainee schemes for bilingual journalists. She developed career workshops that she then delivered to hundreds of staff in the UK and across Africa. Between 2018 and 2020 she was based in the Nairobi bureau as Training and Talent Manager for the region. She sat on the steering committee for BBC’s ‘Global Women in News’ group from 2014-2023 and was a Senior Journalist Team Manager on the 50:50 Equality Project. Hewete is also a trustee at Action Against Hunger UK, is passionate about diversity and inclusion and holds a degree in French and Spanish from King’s College London. Away from work she loves being by the sea or mature trees and has seven cats across two continents.
Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson
Sarah lives and works in Birmingham, UK. Mother of two daughters, headteacher of a large primary school in Birmingham, passionate about challenging stereotypes, justice, kindness, Shakespeare, family, friends, art. ‘Lord we know what we are but not what we may be’.
Alison Murray
Alison is Deputy Head of Midwifery at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. She is passionate about providing safe holistic midwifery care and continuing to develop knowledge and skills to meet changing needs and demands both locally and globally. Having visited Hamlin Midwifery College, she has been inspired by the dedication of undergraduate Midwives in providing Continuity or Care to their local communities to make a difference.
Leadership
Helen Marriott, CEO
Helen has worked in the charity sector for over ten years. She is a fundraising specialist with experience from a range of national charities and most recently international maternal health charity Ammalife. She is passionate about connecting supporters and volunteers with the causes they care about. She is experienced in devising and implementing organisational and fundraising strategy and managing successful teams.