Our Team
Our team is small but mighty and together with our fantastic volunteers we make things happen for people with MS and Parkinson's in Canterbury
Amelia Davis
Amelia joined the MSPC team in 2023
Lina Stroud
Lina is the fountain of money. 88% of the income we need to run MSPC comes from events, grants, and donations
Zahwah Bagharib
Zahwah is our office superstar and who you are most likely to get answering the phone when you ring us.
Health & Wellbeing Team
Lauren Flook
Health & Wellbeing Lead
Lauren joined the team in 2025. She is a registered Occupational Therapist, most recently working at Burwood Hospital.
Cathy Chirnside
Health & Wellbeing Advisor
Cathy joined us in 2024. She has a background in nursing and has been working in the health sector for many years.
Kirsten Cairns
Kirsten joined us in 2024. She has a background in phyisotherapy, and while being based at Braintree, she also looks after our Selwyn clients.
Dr. Amin Daneshfar
Amin joined the team in 2023. He is in charge of our exercise programs and the physical fitness assessments for MSPC. Amin is a registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist.
Exercise Instructors
Skye Churchill
Skye instructs our Friday classes and she is also in charge of our Thursday Pioneer classes.
Stuart Dallow
Stuart is the Instructor for our Monday HIT & Power and Open Gym.
Gary Benett
Gary looks after our Thursday classes at BrainTree.
Roger Chance
Roger is our Tai Chi instructor for our Wednesday class.