Warren Alexander

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Warren joined the Charity Retail Association as Chief Executive in November 2009. Before that he was Chief Executive of Core, a charity funding research into digestive disorders. He has worked...

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Julia Groves

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Julia Groves is Chair of the UK Crowdfunding Association and Managing Director of Trillion Fund, a crowdfunding for renewable energy platform....

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Boris Worrall

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Boris is Executive Director of Futures at Orbit, a leading housing association managing 38,000 homes across the Midlands, East and South East. Boris is responsible for business planning, performance, strategic...

Penny Yewers

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Penny graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations. She has worked extensively in social policy in Australia advising on matters relating to...

Tom Versluys

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Tom studied history at the University of Edinburgh, where his main interests lay in philosophy, intellectual history, religion, and crusading scholarship. He has spent several years working as a part-time...

Clive Betts MP

Clive Betts MP began his political career in 1973 and in 1976 was elected as a member of Sheffield City Council. He became Leader of the Council in 1987, having...

Zaki Cooper

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Zaki Cooper is an inter-faith activist and a Trustee of the Council of Christians and Jews. He has written widely on the subject of faith in the national media and...

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Matthew Parsons

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Matthew Parsons is a community renewables analyst at SCENE, where he oversees research and the SCENE Connect database. Until recently, he was working in the nascent tidal energy industry as...

Zoe Stavri

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Zoe Stavri works as a campaigner with Local Works, the campaign to reverse community decline and implement the Sustainable Communities Act....

John Tizard

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John Tizard is an independent strategic advisor and commentator on public policy and public service practice. In 2007 he founded ‘The Centre for Public Service Partnerships’, of which he was...