Speakers

Adam Brown

Adam is the company secretary at Substance and a Director with responsibility for communications. He has extensive research and policy experience in the areas of sport and popular culture and was Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University from 1996-2006.

Miia Chambers

Miia Chambers is Director of Development at P3, a social inclusion charity and social enterprise - a provider of homeless, offender and mental health services. She is also seconded part-time to NESTA working on public service innovation. Previously Miia worked for Camden Council’s Communities and Third Sector team on policy development, outcomes based commissioning and supporting social innovation, co-production and timebanking. Before Camden Miia worked as a Policy Advisor on social inclusion, and as a lecturer and a consultant.

Tim Crabbe

Tim Crabbe: Tim Crabbe Chair of Substance

Tim is a founder member, Director and Chair of Substance and Professor of the Sociology of Sport and Popular Culture at Sheffield Hallam University. He has a specialist interest in young people, sport and popular culture and a long track record of conducting both ‘pure’ academic and applied research around these issues as well as tailored monitoring and evaluation exercises for specific policy initiatives.

Stella Creasy

Stella Creasy MP and Co Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs

Stella Creasy is the Labour and Co-Operative MP for Walthamstow. She has been an active member of her local community for many years, having served as the Mayor of Waltham Forest as well as a local councillor for a number of years. She has a background in the voluntary sector, helping to set up many youth and community projects in Walthamstow as well as being the Head of Campaigns at the Scout Association before her election in May 2010. Stella has also been involved in the Labour movement for over twenty years and has held many roles including being a local party activist, Young Fabian Society executive, Co-operative Party and Unite member . She undertook her academic research at the London School of Economics and won the Titmuss Prize for her Phd in the psychology of neighbourhood participation.

Natalie Djohari

Natalie’s principal research interests are in young people and marginalization, with specific expertise in social development, human rights, citizenship, trauma and social suffering. She received her doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex. Natalie also holds a Masters of Science in Social Research Methods.

Simon Duffy

Dr. Simon Duffy leads the independent research and development network, the Centre for Welfare Reform. The Centre works to radically redesign the current welfare system in order to promote citizenship, family and community. Simon is best known for his defining work on personalisation. In 1996 he created the first individual budgets in Glasgow, and in 2003 he tested this model when leading In Control. In 1999 he developed the model of Self-Directed Support which has now become central to adult social care policy in England.

Mike Evans

Mike Evans, MBA began working for the Football League Trust as a Regional Community Manager in February 2008. This involved working with 15 Community Trusts linked to Football League clubs in the Midlands, exploring new opportunities, sharing best practice, and monitoring and evaluating projects. In November 2009 Mike was successful in an application to the DWP for £1.3 million to create 200 new jobs as part of the Future Jobs Fund, which led to his new role as National Project Manager.

Steven Flower

Steven has a background in the third sector, working in various organisations and contexts over the past 10 years to enable better use of information technology tools. This has ranged from youth film making projects in Eastern Germany to IT recycling to founding a social enterprise to provide web services to the sector.

Muki Haklay

Dr. Muki Haklay is a senior lecturer in GIS Science at the department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at UCL. Muki is a director and founder of Mapping for Change, a social enterprise dedicated to community mapping and GIS services to the Third Sector that is mutually owned by UCL and the charity London 21 Sustainability Network.

James Hunter

James Hunter is the Web Development Youth Worker for Leicestershire County Council’s Youth Service, and manages their award winning youth portal, The Jitty (www.thejitty.com). James graduated from the University of Leicester with a BSc Computer Science Degree, is a Microsoft Certified Professional, and has managed the youth group behind the site since its launch in 2005.

Charlie Leadbeater

Charlie Leadbeater: Charlie Leadbeater Key Note speaker Charlie Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and strategy, and is one of the most influential creative people in the world. He is author of several acclaimed books; Living on Thin Air, a guide to living and working in the new economy; Up the Down Escalator, an attack on the culture of public pessimism accompanying globalisation and In Search of Work which was one of the first books to predict the rise of more flexible and networked forms of employment.

Joy MacKeith

Joy MacKeith taught at the Centre for Civil Society at the London School of Economics and has published widely on voluntary sector issues. Later she was a Director of Compass Partnership where she worked for seven years with a wide range of leading national voluntary organisations at Chief Executive and Board level.

Oliver Mason

Oliver Mason has conducted research into severe mental health problems for over 15 years both in the laboratory and the clinic. Originally a student of those with chronic mental health problems in the former asylum system, he gained his doctorate from Oxford in 1996.

Gavin Mellor

Gavin is a founder member of Substance and the company’s Director of Operations. He previously worked as a lecturer and researcher at a number of UK universities. He leads various projects for Substance as well as heading up the development of the Substance Project Reporting System (SPRS) and its successor Views.

Sarah Mintey

Sarah is now Principal of the OPEN Youth Trust and was also a founding Trustee and part of the board who created the concept and vision for the OPEN Youth Trust. At the opening ceremony for the Open Youth Venue, Mr Sanjay Dighe, Chair of the England Big Lottery said ‘When the Government asked us to establish world class facilities we didn’t know what they were. Today we send everyone to Norwich!’.

Joyce Moseley

Joyce Moseley: Joyce Moseley Chief Executive of Catch 22
Joyce Moseley is the Chief Executive of Catch22, a major national charity working with young people who find themselves in difficult situations. It offers them opportunities to learn, earn a living, live somewhere safe, steer clear of crime and give something back to their communities.

Lucy Parker

Former Chair of the Government’s Talent and Enterprise Taskforce.

Lucy was until recently the Chair of the Government’s Talent and Enterprise Taskforce. Prior to this she was Chief Executive of Cantos Communications, a pioneer in video online communications for major corporates, with over a third of the FTSE100 amongst its clients.

Matthew Pike

Matthew Pike is one of the country’s leading social entrepreneurs and has established more than 40 new programmes and organisations, including a range of social investment funds. He has also advised government at a senior level on a range of policy issues.

Sharon Pitchford

Sharon Pitchford joined the civil service in 1982 and has worked primarily for the Department for Education. She helped develop the Connexions Service in the 1990’s before joining the Youth Service Unit, managing the national voluntary youth organisation grant scheme. In 2004 she joined the Children and Families Directorate managing the Safer School Partnerships, then implementing a statutory duty for local authorities to identify children missing from education.

Tim Riches

Tim Riches is a director at Radiowaves, a free social media learning platform used by over a thousand schools across the UK. Organisations build social media websites and applications on the Radiowaves platform to connect directly to young people, teachers and parents. Tim works with organisations to create social marketing campaigns and research projects which provide new ways of evidencing education and engagement with young people, parents and the wider community.

Jonathan Senker

Jonathan Senker is the Chief Executive of VoiceAbility which provides advocacy, support brokerage and a range of innovative projects to enable people to take control of life’s direction and to contribute to and influence communities and decision-making.

Paul Stolk

Paul Stolk: Paul Stolk Paul joined the Substance team in April 2009 to lead the participation element of the Big Lottery Angling research programme. Through his PhD study and his involvement in other research projects, Paul has developed extensive expertise and interest in the fields of outdoor recreation, ecotourism and sustainable tourism.

Neil Taylor

Neil Taylor has vast experience of developing communities through sports engagement and making the most of regeneration projects. Neil has been with Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme since 1998 and in 2007 was appointed Chief Executive.

John Tizard

John Tizard: John Tizard Director of The Centre for Public Service Partnerships

John Tizard is the Director of The Centre for Public Service Partnerships which is an independent research and policy and practice centre. It focuses on public service strategic commissioning, productivity, performance and governance with a specific interest in partnerships between public agencies and between them and the business and third sectors including Total Place. John regularly writes, speaks and comments on these issues.

Rich Wall

Rich Wall is the Young Advisors charity's Development Officer for the Midlands and East of England. Young Advisors is a charity that gives training and opportunities for young people to use their skills, and their knowledge of local communities in order to influence decisions made on their behalf. Rich also works with the Catch22 NCS Partnership as Participation Champion, putting young people's ideas and decisions at the heart of National Citizen Service pilots.

Alex Welsh

Alex is currently Chief Executive of The London Playing Fields Foundation with whom he has been an employee since 1989. In his time with the Foundation he has designed and delivered a number of innovative projects that use sport to reduce isolation and improve the quality of life. He has direct experience of managing multi-sport sites and acquiring large capital grants to modernise them.