Angie Bamgbose is the director of BBFD Ltd. In 2000 she began working in child protection the humanitarian and development field, and in 2010 began working in safeguarding. She started her career in the UK as a social worker in the charity sector and managed a pioneering team working with young people experiencing sexual exploitation.
Since 2012, Angie has been a consultant focussing on child protection programming, safeguarding and safe organisational cultures. She has experience of:
• Developing safeguarding policies and procedures
• Conducting organisational safeguarding and culture reviews
• Designing and facilitating training, including training of trainers, online training, e-learning packages, and webinars
• Guiding organisational culture change programmes
• Developing processes and tools for safe programming
• Mentoring safeguarding professionals
• Coaching people who have experienced workplace bullying or harassment, or who want to amplify their voice.
• Facilitating action learning sets as a safe space to reflect on the impact of race, power and privilege on safe work cultures.
Angie works with practitioners, leadership teams and boards of NGOs, INGOs, and UN bodies.
She has worked with development and humanitarian programmes in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, West, East and Southern Africa, Latin America, Caucuses, and Europe.
Angie knows our sector well and dedicates her utmost energy to everything she does whether it is child protection, safeguarding, coaching or facilitation. She builds trusting relationships and works with care to achieve high levels of participation from those she works with.
Angie provides services in English.
Finally, but importantly, Angie identifies as a Black woman with intersecting identities of sexuality, disability, education and class through which she navigates a complex set of power and privileges
Angie Bamgbose
angie@bbfd.org.uk