Meet the team

  • I oversee the delivery of the programme. This includes ensuring that Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, a Trauma Informed approach and Lived Experience are integral to everything we do. I bring our partners together to understand and engage with Changing Futures as I see it as a resource for the whole city to work more effectively to support people facing multiple disadvantage.

  • I love a challenge and I care deeply about doing better for people facing multiple disadvantage. As a compassionate society and city, I believe we should never give up and that we should keep an open door to support people when they are ready.

  • System leadership and system change, creating learning environments

  • With a wide and varied programme, my role is to support the bringing together of interdependencies and people and help to facilitate opportunities to create lasting legacy for people experiencing multiple disadvantages through our key areas of work.

  • I love ambiguous and uncertain environments and am passionate about making the world just a little bit more equitable.

  • sense making, meaning making, compassionate enquiry, consensus building, equity, trauma informed, coaching and cats!

  • I am responsible for the conception, implementation and delivery of our model of practice that will be our vehicle to working better for those facing multiple disadvantage.

  • The system does not work for those facing multiple disadvantage. We know that a more systemic approach helps. This means a holistic approach, better relationships and coordination between services and generating space to reflect and learn from multiple perspectives, working together to make sense of complexity and challenge the status quo

  • My Team Around Me, the 3 pillars, systemic practice, reflective practice and outdoor pursuits.

  • I facilitate coproduction initiatives and support individuals to contribute insights gained from their lived experience of multiple disadvantage to shape the design, delivery and evaluation of services, as well as influence strategy and government policy. I also have the pleasure of holding activities which support individuals in their recovery journeys, promoting their personal development and wellbeing.

  • My lived experience as a carer for my mum led me to this role. I knew what good and bad practice looked like in mums care and I saw first-hand how easily people can ‘fall through the gaps’- being left with little or no support, or totally unsuitable support - when they are grappling with multiple disadvantage. I also know the devastating impact this can have – primarily the human cost, but also the monetary cost of the repeated churn around the system(s).

    When I read about the My Team Around Me approach to support those with multiple disadvantage, it was a light-bulb moment for me as I knew that would have been fantastic for mum.

    I want to influence positive change and a shift in culture which is more trauma-informed, strengths-based and equitable - giving people what they actually need, and want, to have opportunity to thrive. We have to understand what is needed and what’s important and this can only be achieved by working with people who’ve been through it themselves – lived and living experience. Things can, and need, to be done differently. I’ve been voiceless in the past and so it’s an honour facilitating, and championing, the voice of lived experience being heard to enact lasting positive change across the system.

  • Coproduction: how to involve service users to help design, deliver and evaluate your services or design, review and implement your strategies and policy.

    Lived Experience involvement: how people with lived and living experience of disadvantages could support your work in creative and impactful ways.

    1960’s Go Go dancing, roller skating, boxing, film, TV, crafts, parenting, fancy-dress.

  • I support the Changing Futures team to evidence our impact.

  • I love using data as a tool to find better ways of working.

  • Theory of Change, Excel, and Surfskate

  • My role is to support the Service Coordinators in the delivery of the My Team Around Me approach, ensuring that all interactions are Trauma Informed, EDI and hold the 4 principles as a baseline. As the approach gains more evidence, I am working alongside other agencies to incorporate identifiable aspects of the approach within their work.

  • I came to Changing Futures as I was aware of all the good work in the city but could see how barriers could get in the way for workers and clients. I hoped that as part of a team I might be able to redress this.

  • MTAM, working collaboratively, collective safety plans and the concept of rocket science.