Our Team

TEAM

Alison Romaine

Youth Organising Lead
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Joy Matthew

Grants and Operations Officer
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Zain Hafeez

Community Fund Manager
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Martha Mackenzie

Executive Director
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Mohammed Afridi

Director of Organising
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Eliza Baring

Project Support Officer
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Matthew Howgate

Governance Hub Director
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TRUSTEES

Catherine McDonald

WWF
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Catherine is Executive Director of Operations and Strategy at WWF-UK and also a trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee at a large hospice. Before that she spent several years in the NHS, supporting hospital trusts and healthcare systems that had operational, financial, quality and governance challenges.  Earlier in her career she qualified as a chartered accountant and spent a few years as a management consultant.

Nick Lowles

HOPE not hate
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Nick Lowles is chief executive of HOPE not hate, the UK's largest anti-racism and anti-extremism movement. He was the former editor of anti-fascist magazine Searchlight.

Nikki Williams

The Wildlife Trusts
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Nikki is the Director for Campaigning and Communities for The Wildlife Trusts. Her specialisms cover campaigning to influence policy at national and local level, community empowerment, and youth-led organisational development. She passionately believes that communities being in control of their own spaces helps create a healthier, happier society for all. Her background as an artist means she brings creativity to support others in experiencing nature and how it improves the quality of our lives.

Naimah Hassan

Global Media Campaign
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Naimah co-founded the Global Media Campaign and Africa Women Rights Advocates. Both organisations centre women-led movements and sustainable change. She is an award winning campaigner, disruptor, and policy shifter. For the past 15 years, she has worked to support community-led initiatives, innovations, strategies, and education. Being the change she wants to see is part of her DNA.  She is an international trainer, and speaker on different stages, including TED (2019).

COMMUNITY ACTION PANEL

Steve Smith

Community Action Panel
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Siân Lewis

Community Action Panel
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Rakesh Prashara

Community Action Panel
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Jess Silvester

Community Action Panel
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Jamie Gratton

Community Action Panel
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Faiza Ali

Community Action Panel
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Emily Vickers

Community Action Panel
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Alex Otubanjo

Community Action Panel
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NETWORK

Dan Vockins

Executive Director
NEON

Luke Tryll

UK Director
More in Common

Will Somerville

UK Director
Unbound Philanthropy

Henna Shah

Changemaker and Campaigner
Politics and beyond

Ayesha Saran

Programme Manager
Barrow Cadbury Trust

Ella Robertson

Managing Director
One Young World

Gemma Mortensen

Co-Founder
New Constellations

Alasdair Murray

Director of External Affairs
KPMG

Kenny Imafidon

Co-Founder and Managing Director
ClearView Research

Roger Harding

Chief Executive
RECLAIM

Rosie Evans

Chair, Refugee
Asylum and Migration Policy (RAMP) project

Karin Christiansen

Managing Director
Datapraxis

Sotez Chowdhury

Associate Director of Networks
Friends of the Earth

Nick Chedli Carter

Managing Director
Resilient Democracy Fund

Professor Danielle Allen

Professor and Democracy Advocate
Harvard

Organising Partners

FUNDERS

When people work together to build coalitions, contest big ideas, and make things happen, that’s democracy in action.