Ray oversees the Ormiston Trust Youth Advisory Council and the Trust’s focus to bring our young people’s voices into our decision-making processes, alongside engagement with external partners and development of new, large scale youth social action programmes.

He has worked extensively in youth and community engagement to develop and fund social action projects and community health programmes, including peer mentoring in secondary schools, rural social prescribing, and community wellbeing initiatives. Ray has previously led the award-winning Waveney Youth Council and was a board member for the East Suffolk Partnership of local authorities and public sector organisations. He received the Prime Minister’s Point of Light Award in 2017 for his contributions to community development and was appointed as an #iWill Ambassador.

Outside of Ormiston Trust, Ray is a public health physician and academic at Imperial College London where he teaches undergraduate medicine and global health students and is involved in postgraduate public health admissions and assessment. He is also a trustee and governor of East Norfolk Sixth Form College, in Gorleston, where he had previously studied.