Lorraine is an active supporter of West Ham United Foundation. With over 20 years’ experience in Financial Services, she’s a strategic, results-driven senior executive with a track record of successfully delivering complex operations and transformation management solutions to market critical technology providers. Recognised for a collaborative leadership style, strong communication skills and ability to translate complex problems effectively into tangible, executable action plans.
About Us
Patrons
Lorraine Barclay
Paragon
With sites globally, the Foundation first got involved with Paragon in 2021 through their Dagenham site. Since then, Paragon has supported the Foundation across a variety of activities in addition to being a Patron. Paragon work together with their clients to help simplify the complexity of today's communications landscape, by delivering a brilliant customer experience at every stage. Whether acquiring prospects, on-boarding new customers or communicating to existing customers more effectively, they provide end-to-end support and deliver insight-driven engagement.
Tony Gibbon
Tony is an active supporter and Patron of West Ham United Foundation, along with being a lifelong supporter of West Ham United FC. Tony was a founding partner of the real estate advisory practice BH2, now part of Newmark Group. He is Chairman of the Trustee Board of Chickenshed, Chairman of the Development Board of The Willow Foundation and Manager of the Real Estate Fund of Trust for London. He is also a Director of The Creative Land Trust, an affiliate of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
Jacqui Abrahart
Jacqui is a lifelong West Ham United fan. With her family, she would walk to the ground from their Plaistow home. She has been a supporter of the Foundation and Academy via Global Image Sports (GIS) for over 20 years. GIS had over 40 US partner youth clubs who all loved the West Ham brand, and many US groups still come to the Foundation for coaching and to enjoy the West Ham experience. Jacqui is an avid fan of the Foundation’s annual golf day and enjoys being part of the amazing Foundation team. Jacqui is also Founding Patron of Future Youth Zone in Dagenham. To date, they have over 10,000 members and have given out over 10,000 free meals. She is also involved with other charities too.