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London, GB

London, London, GB

CEO of Local Trust, the independent charity established in 2012 to deliver Big Local, a Lottery-funded programme which committed over £1m to each of 150 neighbourhoods across England to support place-based, resident-led change. The £217m originally provided by the Big Lottery Fund to support this programme is the largest single-purpose, lottery-funded.

Launched in September 2024, the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods will review the current state of neighbourhoods across England. It will rigorously examine the role of neighbourhoods in people’s lives, quantifying and qualitatively exploring the case for neighbourhood focused regeneration as a contribution to achieving wider social and economic.

Leeds, GB

Short term non-exec support role during change process at corporate grant making trust.

London

Zinc exists to build and scale a brand-new way to solve the world's most important societal problems.

Advisory board member to start up new ONS initiative aimed at delivering better statistics and strengthening evidence for policy-making and delivery, by applying data science tools, techniques and practices.

Founding Chair and (from May 2017) subsequently trustee of not for profit football charity providing affordable training for talented young players in north London, based on their sporting talent and potential not their parents ability to pay. Helped establish the charity on a sustainable business footing; raised sponsorship funds to support the.

Member of the Active Partnerships National Board - the national body representing the nationwide network of locally based organisations working to increase sport and physical activity in their communities, with a particular focus on inactive people and under-represented groups. Collectively Active Partnerships employ 670 staff and have a turnover of over.

Trustee and then Interim Chair of high profile, rapidly growing international secular congregational movement. Worked with Sunday Assembly's founders, trustees, membership and staff to untangle and resolve wide ranging governance, management and financial issues arising from the organisation's rapid and largely unplanned growth, helping set it on a path to.

London, GB

Leading the turnaround and relaunch of historic housing charity, establishing a radical new future for HACT as an ideas and innovation agency driving change across the housing sector. In doing so, transforming a traditional grant dependent charity into a dynamic trading business with ambitious growth prospects for the future, ranging across data analytics.

London, GB

Founding chair of Shared Assets, an innovative not for profit company with a growing portfolio of projects focused on creating viable models for community use of waterways, woodlands and open green spaces in both urban and rural contexts.

London, GB

Associate Director and Head of Housing, Health and Environment Unit, focusing in particular on social innovation and the application of new thinking around the ways in which communities, government and business need to change to respond to the challenges of a new economic and political environment.

Board member of medium sized community based housing provider in Walsall during period of merger with broader based West Midlands provide Accord Group.

Board member of Accord Group - a significant West Midlands/Black Country based housing provider with a particular focus on social innovation and enterprise, contributing in particular to thinking about how they might scale and more widely promote the range of innovative solutions owned within their business.

Leading transformation of performance, relationships and reputation of £40m pa government agency responsible for the development of support and advice services to civil society organisations, working with and through an extensive network of local and national delivery partners.

Member of senior executive team at £2bn pa Government delivery agency, providing support and advice to the Board and Chief Executive and leadership on communications, strategic policy, reputation and crisis management, research and innovation. Led transfer of Housing Corporation assets and people to Homes and Communities Agency following government-led.

London, GB

Lead responsibility and first through the door in the establishment of major new regeneration agency tasked with regenerating and transforming significant area of east London, setting up systems, developing initial strategic and policy positions, recruiting the Board and supporting them in recruiting the long term leadership team for the new agency.

Manama, BH

A short term posting, leading on design and launch of major organisational change programme in a major government department.

Westminster, London, GB

Senior Civil Servant responsible for providing support to range of cabinet Committees, working on daily basis with ministers up to Cabinet level and with senior officials across Whitehall. Responsibilities included management of Government's Legislative Programme, drafting of Queen's Speech, management of cabinet committee business on health and public.

Short term post as part of a team of two drafting the 2001 Planning Green Paper, working directly to Minister of State for Housing and Planning, particular responsibility for development of approaches to community involvement in the planning process.

Managing Ministerial private office in Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Leader of team responsible for legislation establishing the Mayor of London and Greater London Authority - at the time, the largest piece of legislation ever to go through Parliament.

Leading team with responsibility for design and delivery of the 1998 London Referendum.

Responsibility for policy on culture, media, sport in London. Support for London-focused Cabinet committees. Preparation for possible change of Government ahead of 1997 election.

Fast Stream civil servant, with range of roles including airquality, radioactive waste management, regional government, central finance.

Llb, Law

Solicitors Professional Examination, Law