Hello! This is us.
Amber Wright
Chair of Purpose Circle
Emma Back
Setting up & Product
Kate Hammon
People & Service
Angie Mossman
Advocate Member
Angie has senior operational experience of managing major digital change projects in telecoms and at HMRC. Her belief in the equal care model is full and frank and we are already benefiting from her deep experience in managing design and implementation in large, complex environments. Together with her husband she is managing the care and support for her mother-in-law.
Angie is advising us and sits on our board.
Mauricio Preciado Awad
Board Member (Co-opted)
Mauricio is an Investment Director at Big Society Capital. He joined from AlphaMundi Group and previously he was also Commercial Projects Advisor at Christian Aid, Pipeline and Portfolio Manager for LAC and AME at ACRE and Senior Associate, London Top Tier Department, at PwC. We have the benefit of Maurcio's commercial business acumen along with strong financial modelling, analytical, problem solving, communication and financial skills. Mauricio was also COO and Co-founder at Theatre Delicatessen, a social enterprise using disused buildings in London’s Theatre District (West End) to host widely acclaimed theatre shows.
Mauricio has oversight of our financial and investment strategy.
Kenny Lee
Supported Member (Training)
Helen McFarlane
Purpose Circle (Investor) Member
Helen was an Assistant Chief Probation Officer before establishing Trafford Council’s Youth Offending Team and retiring as Director, Safe Strong Communities. She has wide ranging governance, executive and consulting experience supporting public, voluntary, charity and social enterprises in fields including recovery from substance misuse, the Samaritans and health.
Helen has recently joined the Purpose Circle and is supporting our upcoming community share offer and co-operative governance requirements.
Lydia Nicholas
Purpose Circle (Investor) Member
Lydia is an anthropologist and technologist working across health and care technology policy. After an early career as a developer she studied medical and digital anthropology at UCL. As a senior researcher in Nesta's Futures team and Health Lab, a programme manager at Doteveryone and as a freelance consultant with the Wellcome Trust, Science Museum and New Scientist, she has led research into technology supported innovation in artificial intelligence for healthcare, public understanding of health data, social movements in health, patient-led research, and innovation in the social care sector.
Emma Back
Setting up & Product
Val Bone
Lead Coach (Learning & Facilitating)
Hannah Batley
Community Circle Organiser
Outside of Hannah’s Social Justice activism she performs spoken word poetry, enjoys cooking, baking and eating yummy bread, dancing, singing, walking and generally doing things which are creative or outdoors.
Joan Scott
Policy & Recruitment
Joan worked in a Social Services Childrens’ Home in Dewsbury, the Probation Service in Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire and, before retiring in 2013, in London for three years at a strategic & policy post. She is an “active grandmother” of her daughters’ five children. She helped her sisters advocate, co-ordinate and give care at home for her father and then her mother who both died at home in 2013 and 2016 respectively.
Joan is writing policies and working on our visual governance project, helping with recruitment and at whatever, whenever, her organising skills are required.
Kate Hammon
People & Service
Gill Crofts
Equal Care Facilitator (Safeguarding)
Gill is holding the giving and receiving relationships in Equal Care and is our Safeguarding Officer.
Nadia Clarke
Training & Recruitment
Nadia is an Ambassador of Travel for People with Disabilities, working to support other people with disabilities to have the courage to experience amazing travel experiences. She was a Mentor for other disabled students, who use a Communication Aid and has spoken at the Houses of Parliament about communication issues. She is living with cerebral palsy and wears a cochlear implant allowing her to hear.
Nadia is helping with recruitment, writing blogs for the website and providing disability awareness training.
Ann Barr
Front End Developer
Ann has returned to her technical roots after a number of years in non-tech roles. Starting out as an electronics engineer, she has worked for large corporations, universities, charities and small business. She is excited by the creativity inherent in technology and feels that creating good, usable technology for a diverse user base requires a diverse tech development community.
Ann believes passionately in the value of community and is involved in local support within her hometown and as part of the UK Python community with PyCon UK and Django Girls. She’s a prolific chocolate brownie baker, is kept fit by an energetic border collie and brave by a circus aerial skills class.
Adam McNichol
Platform Lead
Giles Dring
Platform Technical Director
Giles is an independent IT Consultant based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. He used to work for a large international corporation, and has a wealth of experience in designing and supporting large IT systems, particularly in the public sector. He is director of delivery at ODI Leeds and is also working on projects for the DWP.
He has a passion for local community, and in response to a couple of devastating flooding events in his town, he developed the Hebden Rising website which aimed to support the business community during recovery.
Giles is leading on the technical specification and platform architecture.
Matthew Shallow
Finance Lead (Policies)
Matthew worked for Camphill Village Trust for over 20 years as a support worker for adults with special needs, also working in HR and finance. In his role as landcare and estates manager he supported a team of people with very different needs to work together on the land. He experienced how people with care and support needs often support each other whilst working together. He now works as a support worker and DJ.
Matthew is our bookkeeper and also writes policies and other documents as well as helping with recruitment.