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 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. 

Gill is holding the giving and receiving relationships in Equal Care and is our Safeguarding Officer.

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 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.

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 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.