Supporting community projects in Sri Lanka

• Creating and leading Reimagining Rent, an innovation support programme tackling inequality in the private rented sector • Leading YF’s role on Social Innovation Community, working with 10 European partners to build strong networks and strengthen capacity for social innovation • Leading the community engagement strand of YF’s Places Programme, working in Northern Ireland, Leeds and Wales to support communities to develop solutions to tackling inequality • Supporting social ventures with business modelling through an Accelerator programme • Researching The Bench, an AHRC funded research project using ethnography to understand how we use public space, particularly benches in parks and town centres• Leading YF’s work on the Cabinet Office Community First programme, supporting local groups in 600 communities who distributed £30million in small grants for neighbourhood activities• Supporting voluntary sector leaders on Better By Design, using social design approaches to foster increased sustainability.

Supporting the leadership team to develop their strategy.