Daniel is a creative organiser with experience across youth power building, participatory grantmaking and futures thinking. Raised in a Filipino migrant family in North Wales, his work has focused on designing youth-led funds and shifting resources and decision-making towards communities excluded from traditional centres of power. His practice is rooted in kapwa, care and accountability - treating relationships, rest and collective sustainability as essential movement infrastructure, while making space for people to imagine what could come next.
Euella is an experienced leader, film-maker and facilitator with a background working within process-driven collective leadership, transformational governance and reparative justice. She is a Non-Exec of Auntie's House fiscal host. Through her work as a Co-Director of youth-led Rising Arts Agency CIC, being a member of the Transformational Governance Stewarding Group and an Associate with Practical Governance Collective, Euella has nearly 10 years experience in supporting leaders, trustees, wealth holders and organisations to see that new ways are possible.
Eda has been working with Civic Power Fund as Special Projects Lead since May, during this time she has overhauled our HR and Operating systems. Prior to joining us, she was Head of Programmes and Impact at the Fore and Head of Programmes at the Social Change Nest, where she oversaw its rapid expansion. She also works with Aunties House, the Sameer Project and The Movements Trust. She brings huge experience in the design and delivery of care-centred people and operating systems.
Jessica worked as a community organiser at Citizens UK, before setting up and leading Migrants Organise’s UK-wide Migrant Organising Programme. From 2019 to 2021 she established and led the UK Democracy Fund with JRRT, and has worked as advisor to the Mayor of London on democratic participation. More recently she managed NEON’s Movement Building Hub, overseeing their training, coaching, organising and movement building support for social movement groups.
Liz is a charity resilience specialist with over 20 years’ experience. She is the founder of Embrace Finance, co-founder of the Small Charity Friendly Collective, and is an experienced charity finance trustee and senior leader. She co-authored the Lloyds Bank Foundation’s Organisational Resilience Programme and the Association of Chairs’ Financial Leadership in Small Charities. Liz is a member of the Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers, holds a Master’s degree in Charity Accounting and Financial Management (Distinction) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Charity Administration.
Francesca is an organiser and writer focused on border and state violence. An experienced campaigner and coordinator, Francesca has a personal commitment to migrant justice and solidarity. She works to centre those at the sharpest end of state violence in all her organising and professional projects.
Joy has a background in law and is studying the LLM. She previously completed the 2027 placement scheme, which is designed to introduce lived experience individuals into the funding sector. Joy is now exploring the philanthropic space and has a particular interest in network, collaboration, and advocacy. She joins the Civic Power Fund from two years at the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, working on policy and grant management. She wants grassroots communities to be trusted by funders to lead their own transformation.
Martha has a background in organising, campaigning, fundraising and charity leadership. She was previously Head of Global Humanitarian Advocacy at UNICEF in New York, and has led teams and campaigns at Shelter and Save the Children in the UK. Martha has balanced progressive fundraising and advocacy with campaigns rooted in redistributing power. She has worked with renters to tackle revenge evictions, campaigned with parents on childcare costs, helped establish the youth activism charity Advocacy Academy and won multi-million dollar advocacy grants.
Mohammed was the former National Coordinator of Rize Up, a voter registration campaign aimed at marginalised and BME youth. He has also worked as a consultant for the UK Democracy Fund, Cook 19 and other third sector organisations and was the former head of operations at Momentum. Prior to joining the Civic Power Fund, Mohammed held several senior positions in private sector firms, including Bloomberg LP.
Matt leads the Governance Hub, providing advice and support on organising, campaigning and governance. He is a non-practising solicitor and organisational governance and compliance consultant. Previously, he was Senior Legal Adviser at the Legal Services Commission and Legal Standards Principal at the Coop Legal Services. He cut his teeth as a litigator in high street practice. Matt works with social justice, human rights and advice organisations. He is on the Board of the Community Justice Fund and Director of the LAPG Management & Leadership Programme, where he strengthens organisations through training.
