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Without vital support from experienced professionals who share our vision, Here for Good would just be an idea. Find out more about our staff and trustees here.

Executive team

Bella Kosmala
Bella KosmalaChief Executive Officer

Bella joined Here for Good in March 2022 bringing with her extensive knowledge of the migration sector, EUSS policy expertise and her own lived experience of being an EU citizen in the UK.

Prior to joining the organisation, Bella led on the Mayor of London’s work supporting European Londoners affected by Brexit through the Citizenship and Integration Initiative. She also managed the Strategic Legal Fund for vulnerable young migrants at the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) and worked with a number of migrants’ rights organisations such as New Europeans UK, Migrants’ Rights Network and Hackney Migrant Centre.

Bella has an LLM in International Law from University of Sussex and an MA in Politics and Anthropology from University of Glasgow.

In addition to her work with Here for Good, Bella is a director at MigrationWork CIC and the Chair of the MigrationWork Trust which manages the small grant scheme ‘Weaving Bonds – Communities Embracing Migration for Collective Belonging’.

Bella Mosselmans
Bella MosselmansCo-Founder & Senior Legal Strategy Advisor

Bella is a qualified lawyer currently based in New York. She works to run the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights but continues to support Here for Good as Senior Legal and Strategy Advisor.

Bella was recognised on the 2020 Forbes 30 under 30 List for co-founding and leading Here for Good.

In 2021, Bella recently received a full Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholarship to undertake an LLM at Harvard Law School. Prior to this, she worked as an asylum and human rights lawyer at the charity, Safe Passage.

Bella set up Here for Good while training to be a lawyer at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP, an immigration law firm. She previously worked part-time at South West London Law Centres running their free legal advice clinics. She completed her undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics where she was nominated one of LSE’s top 20 inspirational women in 2015. She is a Young Trustee at a leading international NGO, Restless Development, and co-runs a grassroots charitable project called Access to Education Sierra Leone.

Strategic Alliance for Europeans (SAFE) project

Nina Pulimood
Nina PulimoodTrainee Solicitor, SAFE Project

Nina joined the Here for Good team in August 2023. She is a trainee solicitor based at Wilson Solicitors LLP in London, working on Here for Good’s SAFE project where she undertakes strategic legal work.

Nina graduated from Worcester College, Oxford University in 2016 with a BA in law. She later completed her training contract at an American law firm based in London and subsequently gained two years of experience as a litigation solicitor at RPC where she worked on the Ingenious Litigation which was featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022.

Nina has volunteered with the Liberty Advice Line, providing information to callers on various human rights issues. She also helped set up a partnership between her previous firm and Migrants At Work, a modern slavery charity aiming to advocate for migrants who are placed in precarious work situations when their employers misunderstand immigration and labour laws. She also assisted with casework for Just For Kids Law, a charity that aims to help children and young people with various legal issues.

Upon completing the LPC, Nina spent three months volunteering with the Mobile Info Team in Greece, helping provide asylum seekers with information and assistance regarding the asylum process and their family reunion applications. After moving to London, Nina has been volunteering with Akwaaba, a community centre for refugees and migrants based in Dalston. She is the Akwaaba representative for the Hackney Patients Not Passports campaign group, which seeks to advocate for people facing charges for NHS care.

Mala Savjani
Mala SavjaniSolicitor, SAFE project

Mala joined the Here for Good team as a solicitor in January 2021, working from Wilson Solicitors LLP in London.

Mala is Here for Good’s Lead Solicitor in the SAFE project, set up to strategically challenge systems that put Europeans and their families at risk. She is also the Strategy and Policy Lead on our Ukraine Project, which was set up as a response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, focusing on complex casework and strategic litigation.

Mala advises the charity on legal policy matters and handles press requests. Mala previously trained and qualified as a solicitor at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP. She is an active member of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA) and provides training on a regular basis.

Bianca Valperga
Bianca ValpergaWill join the SAFE project in March 2025

Bianca joined Here for Good in April 2020 as an EUSS caseworker. In June 2022, Bianca split her role and also became our EUSS Legal Policy Officer, leading on legal policy matters under the EU Settlement Scheme until June 2024.

She is one of Here for Good’s longest standing member of staff and an expert on complex EUSS casework and legal policy issues.  She is as a Level 2 advisor with OISC. Bianca was first based at the South West London Law Centre (SWLLC) and later at the AIRE Centre.

From March 2025, Bianca will join Wilson Solicitors as an EUSS caseworker and legal policy officer under the Here for Good SAFE project, carrying on the legacy of Here for Good’s strategic legal work.

Our Board of Trustees

Tahmid Chowdhury
Tahmid ChowdhuryCo-Founder and Chair

Tahmid co-founded Here for Good in 2018, and alongside Bella was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2020 for his social entrepreneurship.

In the year prior, he was Co-Founder and Director of The People’s Challenge, a crowdfunded pressure group which was a party in the Article 50 Miller litigation.

Alongside his Trustee responsibilities, Tahmid is part of Here for Good’s Executive Team, leading on finance and governance as a volunteer.

Outside of Here for Good, he works as a Senior Account Director at M&C Saatchi World Services; sits on the Boards of five other UK charities; and is a Judge at the Charity Times and Better Society Awards.

Gary Simmons
Gary Simmons

Gary is an actuary that specialises in governance, reward, culture and organisational issues. He has been a partner at the global actuarial, HR and benefits consulting firm, Mercer, for the last 9 years. Prior to this he was a partner at PwC for 15 years.

Gary specialises at modelling future workforce supply in the UK and other countries, particularly the impact of migration and changing participation, and consults with organisations on all aspects of their people strategies.

He also currently has responsibility for driving Mercer’s market-oriented Brexit strategy.

Kim Hooper
Kim Hooper

Kim Hooper is a chartered accountant, previously holding Senior Manager posts at both Ernst & Young and PWC, working with clients ranging from PepsiCo to Warner Bros.

With a passion for charity work, Kim founded her own accountancy practice specialising in charities and small businesses. She particularly supports Here for Good with its charity governance and finances.

Paul Dossett
Paul Dossett

Paul is a CIPFA qualified accountant who has worked with public sector and not-for-profit clients for more than 30 years including some of the largest London, Boroughs, County Councils and NHS trusts in the UK. He currently chairs Grant Thornton’s Local Government Board.

Paul also has extensive experience in governance. He is a member of CIPFA’s Public Financial Management Board, the Fighting Fraud LOCALLY Board and is a school governor.

If you’d like to offer your support to Here for Good, please do not hesitate to contact us.