Board & Governance

Relate NI Board & Governance

Relate NI is a registered charity which has been working to provide professional therapeutic interventions and information programmes on healthy relationships across Northern Ireland for over 70 years. In 2024, Family Mediation NI and Relate NI merged.

Family Mediation NI had 25 years experience working in the charity sector  assisting families manage conflict and together with Relate we now have over 100 years experience delivering services to the public.

Join our Board!

Relate NI are recruiting board members to join our team! We hope you will want to join us and help us shape the strategic direction of Relate NI as we move forward. We are focused on building the next phase in the evolution of the charity across its commercial and charitable activities following our successful merger with Family Mediation NI. We are ambitious to continue to grow and diversify, to serve more people in different ways.

If you have any initial queries relating to the post in the first instance please contact Joan Davis at joandavis@relateni.org or telephone 028 90 32345

Board members

The current merged Board is lead by Chairperson Patricia Gordon.

Patricia is currently Acting Chair for Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.

Patricia had a career in the Health and Social Care sector where she worked in strategic planning, information and general management roles. Patricia has served as a member of the Governing Body of Queen’s University Belfast; was a member of the Business in Community Board; a member of the NHSPRB; a Non -Executive Director in the NI Prison Service and in the Business Services Organisation. She  is currently a lay member of the Tax Tribunal, an Associate Consultant in the Leadership Centre, Vice-Chair of Strathearn School.

Board Members

Vice -Chair Bernie Kelly

Aidan Bennett

Felicity Lamrock

Fiona Magee

Sarah Fletcher