Shipa Ahmed Khan

Shipa brings together various groups – vulnerable or otherwise – through organised events, workshops, and big projects. She is especially focused on the importance of building partnership and long-term trust with the community, especially with hard-to-reach and marginalised groups. Shipa has worked in education, mental health and community development, managing teams and setting up new projects. Having worked with vulnerable youth in the fostering system and people with complex mental health needs. She routinely delivers training in intercultural communication and mental health and wellbeing.

She is the current Vice Chair of Portsmouth Bangladesh Business Association, supporting trade, investment, and education to Bangladesh, with future focus on start-ups and female entrepreneurship. She has research experience in working with the University of Portsmouth, School of Health Sciences and Social Work as well as the University of Lancashire. As well as mental health research projects she has contributed to a study examining dementia patients and their family carers amongst the Bangladeshi community in England. In addition to her professional community work, Shipa’s personal volunteer activities have included regularly feeding the local homeless communities by working with local businesses and others to co-ordinate donations of hot food and services and sending charitable donations to communities abroad facing natural disasters and escalations of violence.