Meet the team
We are a small (but mighty) network of contributors united in the belief that supporting community-led regeneration builds resilient places and leads to positive, lasting, social change.
We work with a close network of community innovators, asset leaders and critical friends, with backgrounds ranging across arts and culture, community business, finance and the built environment.
Ellie Davies
People and Place Programme Manager
Victoria Barrow-Williams
Mycelial Network Co-facilitator
Clare Richards
Founder and Trustee
Ion Fletcher
Trustee
Ambre Le Van Chau
Team Administrator
Bridget Wilkins
Chair
Hani Salih
Trustee
Naomi Rubbra
Chief Executive
Danie Gilbert
Trustee
David Souden
Trustee
Advisory Group
We, Footwork and Platform Places, benefit from an extraordinary group of individuals with first-hand experience of social innovation, community funding and place-making to help us think about our work.
Juliet Can
Community Asset Developer, equality and justice campaigner, founder of social enterprise Stour Trust
Ojay McDonald
Chief Executive Officer at Association of Town and City Management, Urban Climate Change Research Network
Mark Robinson
Chair of the Hartlepool Development Corporation, how people collaborate to transform places