About Margaret Jummy Taribo

When I returned to the UK in my thirties, I came back to a country that was technically my birthplace but felt, in many ways, like foreign ground. I had to learn how systems worked — healthcare, education, social services — not as a child being guided through them, but as an adult trying to find her own way while building a life from scratch. I knew what it felt like to be capable, experienced, and still find yourself on the outside of a system that wasn't designed with you in mind.

That experience never left me. And eventually, it became the reason I do what I do.

Over the past two decades, I have dedicated my life to making sure that families — particularly those from Black and Global Majority communities — never have to navigate those systems alone. I have worked as a Parent Development Worker, a Children's Centre Coordinator, and a Family Learning Coordinator, building relationships across Southwark and neighbouring communities, and partnering with government bodies, NHS trusts, faith organisations, non-profits, and community groups to connect families with the support they need and deserve.

What I have learned in twenty years is this: most parents are not struggling because they lack love or commitment. They are struggling because nobody ever showed them the door, let alone walked through it with them. My work has always been about finding those families — the ones who have fallen through the gaps, the ones who were never told help existed — and making sure they know they are not alone.

That belief led me to ParentSkills2Go. I became CEO in 2010, and over the years since, I have grown it from a small community organisation into a recognised name — a household brand in Southwark and beyond, trusted by families, commissioners, and partner agencies alike. It led me to create the My Child & Me programme — a twelve-week journey that has seen 98% of participants report increased confidence as parents, and 100% say they felt genuinely supported. And it led me to write — first Leaving, Living… Life in a Foreign Land, drawing on my own story of navigating life between two countries, and then Can You Hear Me?, a call to listen more deeply to the families and communities so often spoken about but rarely heard.

I host Echoes of Our Community, a podcast where those voices get to speak for themselves — where the people doing the quiet, vital work of holding communities together get to share what they know.

More than 1,000 families have come through our programmes and services. Every single one of them has reminded me why this work matters.

I am not finished.