Team Biographies

​Do you want to know a little more about each team member before you arrive

The Retreat Team are here to coordinate your retreat and lead the programme while you are with us.
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The Volunteer Team work with you during your stay at St. Cassian’s, from leading group sessions and presentations to running activities.

retreat team

EMMA

​DIRECTOR

Emma is originally from Nottingham.
She studied History and Physical Education at university and she is a qualified teacher.
Emma has worked in other centres for a number of years and has been director at St Cassian's since August 2011.

SARA

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Sara is originally from Hermosillo, Son. Mexico. 
She studied Multimedia Production at La Salle university.
She has been a volunteer on different Lasallian projects around the world.
Sara has been working at St Cassian's since November 2019.
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Francis

​​​​RETREAT PROGRAMME COORDINATOR​

Francis is originally from the South in Bishop's Stortford, lived in Yorkshire for nearly 20 years, and now is back to the South in Kintbury. 
He studied Sports Journalism at Leeds Trinity University. Volunteered for a year at another Catholic Retreat Centre - YMT. And before coming here worked as a Teacher Assistant.

​IGOR

​​​​RETREAT PROGRAMME COORDINATOR

Igor is originally from Brasília, Brasil. 
He studied basically his whole life in La Salle Sobradinho, which led him into the Lasallian Youth Groups in 2012. 
Igor has been in different Missions around Brasil with La Salle,  joined St. Cassian's Volunteer Team in 2021 and now is part of the Retreat Team.

volunteer team

Consisting of 9 young adults who give a year of their lives to work with all who come to the Centre.


​Beti

  • ​Hometown: Cochabamba, Bolivia
  • School:  La Salle Cochabamba
  • Favourite Place: Lausanne, Switzerland
  • ​Favourite Quote: "Don’t worry about anything, instead pray about everything"             -Philippians 4:6 



​Bernardo

  • Hometown: Hermosillo, Mexico
  • School: Colegio Regis La Salle
  • Favourite Place: The beach
  • ​Favourite Quote: "You can't control many things that happen to you, but you can control how you respond to what happens to you".
                                         ​                    -Farid Dieck


​Edu 

  • Hometown: Hermosillo, Mexico
  • School: Colegio Regis La Salle
  • Favourite Place: Home
  • ​Favourite Quote: "When it feels scary to jump in… that is exactly when you jump, otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life".
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​Mambwe

  • Hometown: Swasea, Wales
  • School: Bishop Vaughan
  • Favourite Place: In the woods
  • Favourite Quote: "A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!"                                                                                         -Lord of the Rings


​marco

  • Hometown: Hermosillo, Mexico
  • School: Preparatoria San Juan Bautista De La Salle
  • Favourite Place: Kintbury
  • Favourite Quote:  “The gods gave us fire… but blowing stuff up, that was our idea”     -

​mArti

  • Hometown: Cordoba, Argentina
  • School: La Salle Argüello
  • Favourite Place: Big cities with plenty of places to visit! 
  • Favourite Quote:  “Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”


​mer

  • Hometown: Cordoba, Argentina
  • School: La Salle Argüello
  • Favourite Place: At the park drinking Mate (traditional Argentinian tea) surrounded by friends!
  • Favourite Quote: “Come learn, go serve”    


​nicky

  • Hometown: Cochabamba, Bolivia
  • School: La Salle Cochabamba
  • Favourite Place: Anywhere around nature
  • Favourite Quote: "Kindness doesn’t cost a thing, yet it’s the richest gift you can give".


​Valeria

  • Hometown: Hermosillo, Mexico
  • School: Preparatoria San Juan Bautista De La Salle
  • Favourite Place: Durango, Mexico surrounded by family
  • Favourite Quote: "Till heaven we don't stop, our life it's just a sigh full of love, And  God is our Goal".
If you think you would like to be on the Kintbury Volunteer Team please download our application form here!