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There’s no change without a bit of tension but all along the golden rule has been: “Never do for others what they can do for themselves. Help strengthen their voices.” We believe people and communities should be in charge of improving their lives. Services can’t always be there, but other people can – so we
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I started out as a breakdancer, touring with Queen Latifah and Money Love before setting up my own operation in a former community centre. Kids kept showing up and soon I was working with drugs awareness projects, teaching video and production skills, encouraging aspirations and keeping the peace when trouble broke out. We’ve worked with
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I started work as a diesel-fitter in a Stoke garage, went back to college to take A levels then moved to London to work as a community service volunteer at a day centre for homeless people. I’ve worked in the charity sector ever since. I don’t like thinking of the YMCA’s young people as a
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Born and bred in Cornwall I’ve lived in rural communities for most of my life, working as a teacher, a University lecturer and as an Early Help Locality Team Manager within children and family services for Cornwall Council. Working with partners, collaborators and local communities, I believe a community’s strengths lie within its people and
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As a care leaver myself, I co-founded the Tope Project to help young care leavers struggling with isolation. Named after a close friend and fellow care leaver who killed himself just before Christmas, the project helps support care leavers at the festive season. I see the care system struggling under difficult pressures and believe there’s
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I’ve taken the lessons learned there and applied them to my strategic role – working with health and social care to help services meet the needs of real people, linking activity across different services to help meet the individual’s complete needs from housing and health to food and friendship. I recognise that grassroots involvement is
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We are truly embedded in our community, ‘a well kent face’, and have often worked with generations of the same families. Paisley has long-term issues that need long-term solutions, and cultural regeneration is one of the answers. We use creativity as a tool for change, tackling the impact of poverty and deprivation to build better
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I grew up in Surrey, took a gap year before medical school and visited a mission hospital in Tanzania, an experience that taught me the futility of parachuting in community saviours. I trained as a GP and was drawn to working on the edges of society, delivering care in the back room of a homeless
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I’ve worked, studied and taught community development across the North East ever since – including CEO of a resident-led £54m regeneration programme in Hartlepool. I retired two years ago and now chair a charity involved in community-led housing – building houses for people in need, supporting young care leavers, providing construction training for young people,
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I was Chief Economist and Director of Analytical Services at the Department for Education and Skills and later became Director of Public Services and Chief Micro-Economist at the Treasury. I’m involved with Engage Britain because I recognise that whilst analytics and facts are vital for effective policymaking, a policy is only worthwhile if it addresses