Trustees

Lucia Nathaniel

Lucia first came to England from St Lucia when she was 11. Her journey to an unknown land and unknown family, alone on a ship with strangers and other children, with only herself and her kind personality to get her through difficult and emotional times has served her well.

Lucia left home at 18 and gave birth to her only child at 21. As a single parent Lucia had to find a way to support herself and her son, taking on cleaning jobs and eventually finding employment in the sewing room of St. John's Hospital, Wandsworth. Her enthusiasm and competence meant that Lucia soon moved to a job in the Medical Records Department of nearby Queen Mary's University Hospital.

Lucia is presently Medical Records Line Manager & Clinic Co-ordinator. She has carefully saved and managed to put her only son through secondary school, college and university. This was the first time that anyone on either side of her son's family had been to university and Lucia earned a newfound respect by all.

Lucia has supported her son in developing as a young black man growing up in inner city London, surrounded by ever increasing negative influences from society, media and peers. Lucia has passed on her kind, self-effacing, insightful, humorous personality onto her son, Adrian. She has challenged him emotionally and mentally, to be strong yet sensitive and has shown him how to be proud of himself, his family, his heritage, his failings, his successes, his friends and his future. Lucia has shown her only son how to be a man.