‘The vision must be followed by the venture’

For those of us hooked on changing the world, there is always more. Whether raising awareness of and support for refugees, supporting foodbanks to grow and operate successfully, launching a new charity and city-wide food poverty project with partners, or bringing together people of all faiths and none to build peace, and act together.

Strengths:

• Connecting. Building relationships. Inspiring & enabling people to form strong, fulfilling, change-making groups and partnerships.

• Ideation & Activation. Working with groups to develop concepts and vision, and path-finding to make the vision, the venture.

• Maximising. Working with others to build robust and replicable models of operation

• Individualisation. Strong facilitation, mediation, group and personal development skills.

History

Boaz Trust –Case and developmental support

Moving to work full time in the Asylum sector meant taking my community development skills and applying them here. This short term role working directly with Asylum seekers, hugely increased my ground-level experience, sector knowledge and understanding. It’s time to apply my full skills more widely.

West Cheshire Foodbank –Operations Coordination (Consultancy)

Working with a network of foodbanks, to develop and stabilise operations, invest in their 100 strong volunteer base and re-structure to create distributed teams, united in goal and understanding.

Oasis Liverpool – Community Lead

Creating and leading a volunteer team in cross-city partnerships projects.
Surplus food network with 19 partners; 53,000 meals in its 1st year.
Syrian Kitchen, raising awareness and support for Syrian Refugees in Jordan, with a Jordanian partner.
Community Development, empowering local people to act together to impact their neighbourhoods

Dudley B. Interfaith Network – Coordinator

Bringing together all faiths and none, and strategic partners to act.

Managing and mediating conflict and violent protests.

Creating new networks to give confidence, voice and a platform for action.

Voluntary

Director, DoES Liverpool co-working and Hack Space
Founder, Syrian Kitchen
Volunteer relief worker, Jordan
Founder and Chair, Home-Start BGQ.

(Photo: Massimo Sestini)