Neil Taylor Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Lead the membership development team, fostering strong cohesion, setting individual KPIs, and delivering professional development opportunities. Oversaw education and HAF programmes, contributing to a 97% member satisfaction rate (2023-2024 data).Collaborated with key partners such as the NHS, MOPAC, housing associations, and developers to create thriving opportunities, resulting in 200+ active partnerships.Managed relationships and co-production initiatives for over 200 members, delivering 90%+ engagement growth through creative and impactful development opportunities.Planned and delivered significant funded projects, including a £1m Home School Community Project, positively impacting CYP and families.Worked with Barnet Council to support CYP and families across departments, including Health, Sport, Crime, Education, and CAMHS, reaching over 10,000 beneficiaries annually.Chaired Barnet’s VCFSE CYP Mental Health Wellbeing Forum and co-authored the Barnet Children and Young People's Mental Health Charter, driving borough-wide improvements.Developed and implemented a marketing strategy that increased digital engagement by over 50%, leveraging platforms such as Wix, Canva, Mailchimp, and Hootsuite to deliver newsletters, social media, and campaign content.As an SLT member, drove strategic change, enhanced organisational ethos, and contributed to 10% annual membership growth.Led the Space2Grow grant-making panel, ensuring due diligence and successful distribution of £250,000 in grants to voluntary sector organisations.

• Proactively identify and engage with new strategic stakeholders.• Maintain and nurture positive relationships with over 100 existing stakeholders, including National Governing Organisations, Borough Councils, network groups, charities, private and voluntary organisations across London to secure commitment and collaboration towards strategic organisational objectives. Provision of funding support, strategy advice, HR guidance, collaboration and networking, and conflict management.• Manage grant application processes and support organisations through the application, delivery, and evaluation, including Sport England’s ‘Tackling Inequalities Fund’ and ‘Opening School Facilities Fund’.• Work systematically through project cycle phases; Ideation, Plan, Do, Assess, Review.• Manage multiple programmes, activities, and projects across complex and fast-paced environments with expertise in budgeting, report writing, and impact measurement. • Liaise with internal working groups and curate positive working relationships with members of the London Sport team to problem solve and support external partner and stakeholder needs.

United Kingdom

- Lead the organisation, by building a team and volunteers to deliver an extensive range of services and programmes to support young people across London in sport, physical activity, wellbeing, education and employment opportunities.• Work with partnerships, local authorities, and funders across all sectors to keep young people at the forefront of everything.• Actively identify funding opportunities that are in line with organisational aims and objectives and submit a robust bid/application appropriate to a particular funder.• Oversee organisational finances alongside Chairman, Treasurer and Finance Officer to support the ongoing delivery of services.• Develop and grow current staffing, monitoring and evaluation against agreed targets.• Successfully navigated staff through challenging financial times with staff feeling they were effectively engaged, involved and part of the any changes that were made / due to be made as a result of the circumstances.Key Achievements• Successfully delivered new fundraising events for the charity, raising over £3,000 with no database of donors.• Oversaw growth of programming and positive outcomes through networking and collaborating with partner organisations despite COVID• Brought in £60,000 in grants and service delivery applications.• Managed the organisational budget of over £235,000

London, United Kingdom

Working as the Head of Sport and Community Partnerships, I have collaborated with partners around the world to promote community-building sports programs. My ability to maintain relationships across all levels has been fundamental for the success of service delivery. I have always been committed to helping individuals reach their full potential and creating more equal opportunities for all. I have taken ownership of ensuring the organisation’s safeguarding policy is adhered to by the employees. - Senior Leadership Team member overseeing the management, finance and development of Sport, Health & Wellbeing activities across the Jewish Community. - Supporting the organisational direction and programming.- Strategic oversight of the Sports department, it's employees & programmes engaging over 5000 members a year including international and world games.- Responsible for organisational partnerships, networking and programme development with external organisations and governing bodies to build programming opportunities. - Designated Safeguarding Lead for staff, volunteers and organisational activities for 50,000 community members engaged across all 250+ events and programmes ran each year.

Walthamstow

I demonstrated a progressive track of leadership in directing the implementation of learning and development programs. I worked closely with various stakeholders to implement policy and practice for professional development and address issues of inequality. • Managed and developed staff, curriculum, and student engagement.• Developed strong working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.• Used impactful presentation, organisational, project management and management skills.• Oversaw staff deployment, quality assurance for teaching and learning, internal verification, financial management, learning and teaching observations and performance appraisals.• Teacher of BTEC Sport and Exercise Sciences and A-Level PE.

London, United Kingdom

- Management of members of Great Britain’s Olympic, Paralympic and elite training squad members in schools and other events around the UK to provide fundraising and physical activity opportunities to primary and secondary schools across England.

- Responsible for the management of 15 staff delivering courses across Sport and Public Services curricula.- Responsible for staff deployment, staff development, quality assurance for teaching and learning, internal verification, financial management, learning and teaching observations and performance appraisals. - Responsible for chairing meetings to develop methods of standardisation and updating on developments within the area of Internal & External Verification- Lead on instances relating to disciplinary procedures for both students and staff.- Monitor KPI’s across the department in line with college targets.

- Middle Management role overseeing development and improvement of teaching and learning for 250 young people aged 16-19.

Manchester, United Kingdom

- Grade 1 teacher of Sport & Exercises Sciences for young people aged 14-19

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Adam Science Leadership Programme, Charity Effectiveness, Pass

Postgraduate Certificate In Education

Ba Hons: English Language & Sport, Culture, Industry And Education