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 co-oversight of our financial and investment strategy.

Hannah is a social justice activist with 12 years experience in the charity sector. Alongside her activism within the local community she also volunteers within a nationwide organisation working with Coop Support and Inclusion and Diversity. She has been an active member and resident of a local housing coop for nearly 6 years.

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 Lead.

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.

Long ago Katrina used to be a Midwife. She has since worked in clinical system designat GE Healthcare and CSC, guidelines implementation at NICE, communications and education. She has turned a frustration with poorly designed systems into a passion for human-centred problem-solving - loving good design in all its forms and finding ways to improve how we do things.

She has strong links with her local community and can often be seen in wellies and a high viz jacket when the valley is at risk of flooding.

Katrina is holding the giving and receiving relationships in Equal Care and providing a key bridge between the platform development and direct support.

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.