Greater Manchester
A Salford lad with a belief that when you create the right conditions for communities to come together, they find a better way forward.
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I grew up in Salford. A charity for working-class young people taught me activism at eleven years old and I never forgot the lesson: communities, given the right conditions, can change things for themselves.
Since then I've spent a decade doing exactly that — building community initiatives, convening people across difference, and leading social innovation projects from root cause all the way through to policy implementation. I work where strategy meets people, and where people become collectives.
I'm a founder, a social innovator, a trustee, and a consultant. I operate across the full spectrum — from working-class communities in Salford to boardrooms, funder networks, and national policy conversations. I hold both comfortably and I think that matters.
Work
Founder & Lead · Unlimited Potential, Greater Manchester
A city-wide social innovation programme grounded in one belief: that communities already hold the answers if you create the conditions to surface them. Before building anything, we listened — to over 6,000 people aged 9 to 97, in schools, community centres, barbers' chairs and front rooms across Greater Manchester.
What they told us shaped everything: policy recommendations built alongside the communities they affect, a city-wide public health programme reaching a population of a million, and nationally ground-breaking research that is changing the conversation across thirteen areas of public life. This is what it looks like when you trust communities to lead.
Consultancy · Strategy · Practice
Supporting organisations to design structures where different generations genuinely work together — not just alongside each other. This means building co-leadership models, shifting internal culture, and creating the conditions for young people to hold real power rather than a seat at the table. Available to advise, design, and embed — from strategy through to practice.
UK & Global
Designing better, more sustainable models of fundraising — and developing a deep understanding of philanthropic psychology and what moves funders from transactional giving toward genuine partnership. Has co-designed multiple UK-based and global funds, working with philanthropists, foundations, and community organisations to build funding models that are more honest about power, more responsive to communities, and built to last.
Governance
Advisory & Co-design
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Open to conversations about social innovation, masculinities work, intergenerational collaboration, speaking, advisory roles, and what comes next.
