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Emma Back
Setting up & Product

Jen Daglish
Delegate member (Coach)

Kate Hammon
People & Service

Helen Carter
Purpose Circle Member (Team Owner)
Purpose Circle Member (Team Owner)
I live in Heptonstall, a village above Hebden Bridge. I am involved in activities locally, being in a choir, in two book clubs, a pub quiz team, a school governor and a safeguarding officer at church. I have a team of carers from Equal Care that visit each morning and evening.

Liz Robinson
Delegate Member (Worker)
Delegate Member (Worker)

Verina Cipolla
Purpose Circle Member (Advocate)
I'm Verina, and i joined the Purpose Circle in October 2024. I am a full time carer for my disabled wife, Kelly, who receives care from Equalcare Co-op. Me and Kelly have been together for 24 years.
As well as having experience being a carer, and an advocate member of the Co-op, I also have experience in governance. Before giving up full time work to look after Kelly, my role was as a Trust Support Coordinator for a multi academy trust. My role was primarily to provide high level support to the Board of Trustees and the Executive Team, but I was also responsible for updating policies, and ensuring relevant legislation and compliance was adhered to by the Trust board.
I hope that I can bring a bit of my past work experience to the Purpose Circle, as well as my lived experience as an carer of someone supported by Equal Care.
I would like to be a voice for supported clients, to ensure that their needs are always at the heart of the co-op's decision making.

Ged Haley
Purpose Circle Member (Team Owner)
Purpose Circle Member (Team Owner)

Monica Haley
Purpose Circle Member (Advocate)
Purpose Circle Member (Advocate)

Vivek Nanda
Treasurer
Treasurer

Matt Williams
Lead Software Engineer
Matt's career path is a windy one; he's worked at organisations large and small, private and public, digital and physical. Above all, he likes working on things that might make a real difference to people's lives. Equal Care Co-op was a natural fit.

Adam McNichol
Platform Lead

Emma Back
Product

Marc Sweeney
Communications and Campaigns

Giles Dring
Platform Technical Advisor
Platform Technical Advisor
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 advising on the technical specification and platform architecture.

Marcus Coleman
Software Engineer

Kate Hammon
Coach

Joan Scott
Policy & Recruitment
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.

Matthew Shallow
Finance & Compliance Lead
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 leads on our health, safety and wellbeing work, our bookkeeping and due diligence.

Dan Cahill
Learning Circle
Dan’s introduction to care saw him working in a psychiatric hospital where he was trained up in the then outdated ‘manual patient lifts’. A bumpy start which led him to develop a passion for helping people to move in the most sensitive and compassionate way possible while also preserving the health of carers who participate in these moves. This is what he currently leads on in his work for Equal Care, both in terms of training and policy, as well as being a founding member of the learning circle.

Luke Tanner
Circle Founder

Florence Nazziwa
Circle Founder

Agnieszka Rolkiewicz
Circle Founder

Marcus Duran
Clapton Commons Partner

Douglas Racionzer
Circle Founder
