KCIL AGM 2026

KCIL members are cordially invited to Kingston Centre for Independent Living (KCIL) Annual General Meeting. 

 When: 1 – 3pm Wednesday 28 January 2026 

Where: There are options to attend in-person or online: 

In-person: DJR, The Rose Theatre, 24-26 High Street, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1HL 

Online: Zoom (link to be provided later) 

The AGM will give you the opportunity to hear what the organisation has been doing over the past year and to take part in a discussion about the challenges and opportunities KCIL faces in the future. It will also be an opportunity for you to meet our Trustees. 

Copies of the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 31 March 2025 will be available nearer the day, on request.  Could you please notify KCIL either by phone: 020 8546 9603 or email: [email protected] if you require the Annual Report in large print or other accessible format. 

Please reply by:  21 January 2026, stating whether you would like to attend in-person or online. 

Your vote needed 

This year we are voting to elect two new trustees to the KCIL board. If you are a KCIL member you will have either received your voting form by email or by post (within the next few days). If you have not received your voting form please call us on 020 85469603. 

It’s not too late to sign up to become a KCIL member, visit our membership page.

Meet our new trustees 

Ashley Pearce

I believe I am an ideal candidate for this position, with my extensive experience, deep knowledge and lived experience of disability, through my advocate, entrepreneur, and co-creating way of working. 

Which has aided me in holding a diverse range of positions, from senior management, ambassadorial, and volunteer roles that demonstrate a lifelong commitment to promoting, inclusion, equality, environment concerns and creating and delivering opportunities for disabled people and their related support networks.

These roles have allowed me to contribute to impactful projects, from promoting accessible environments and education to transport and health initiatives.
Just in the last year, as a disabled person myself, I was elected as a Trustee at KCIL and was voted in as Deputy Chairperson for Kingston Disability Network.  Plus the Founder of The London Buddy Scheme as well as Representing two pan disability communities, in Kingston Upon Thames and Hammersmith and Fulham on a number of local and regional projects. For better accessible transport hubs, safer streets, better customer service experiences while in hospital buildings and using their services, to developing and deliverIng environmental and climate change projects, that has improved social inclusion, health and wellbeing outcomes for those individuals and their local communities. 

Katy Alexander

Katy is a Fractional CCO and Startup advisor within DeepTech and Executive Education. With over two decades of experience spanning strategy, operations, and marketing across science and technology, she builds the systems that help breakthrough ideas become real-world products. She connects partnerships, commercial strategy, and narrative to scale quantum sensing from lab to field. Katy led market expansion and transformation initiatives at Digital Science and Oxford Quantum Circuits, and has supported science-focused startups across a wide range of investors, founders, and builders. 

Katy is neurodivergent and was a founding member of Publishing Enabled, the advocacy group within the STM publishing industry that helped establish the Disability Action Group. In 2012, she also founded Nomadict, a startup born out of firsthand experience with inaccessible travel. Nomadict was a community-powered app designed to surface places that actually worked for people with different access needs, going beyond checkbox accessibility to real, lived experience, allowing users to search and filter by requirements and to share honest reviews to support others. Alongside her current work, Katy founded The Remarkablz, an education initiative creating STEM games and books for children aged 3–14, focused on widening participation and building a more diverse and inclusive STEM future.