Associates

In 2021, She set up her own consultancy and has assisted various organisations in the following: strategic planning, youth participation, facilitation, recruitment and funding committees. In 2019, Dami co-founded We Belong, an organisation that fights for the rights of young migrants in the UK, which led to major national campaign wins. In 2017, she was seconded to the London Mayor’s office as a Policy Advisor to help with their Social Integration Team. She’s an Eisenhower youth Fellow and has spoken out worldwide against the UK’s hostile environment towards migrants.

She was Head of Membership Mobilisation in Labour’s 2019 General Election campaign, mobilising tens of thousands and breaking political fundraising records. She’s worked on successful campaigns against corporate giants at Greenpeace and helped force airlines to back out of flying refugees to Rwanda.

Most recently she has advised around 30 non-profits on campaigns and communications strategy as a consultant. You can find more about India on her website.

Jess is part of the more onion team of digital mobilisation experts, working with charities and other civil society organisations to help them deliver high-impact campaigns and fundraising. Previously she worked for Action Aid, Which? Christian Aid and Oxfam in digital roles. She is an experienced trainer, event planner and facilitator, and has worked with CharityComms, and on the ECF and Impact Space events.  In her spare time, Jess is one of the small volunteer team behind parent-led campaign ‘Let Toys Be Toys’ challenging gender stereotypes in the toy and children’s book industries.

Jess leads our Digital Campaigning workshop. @day_jess

Josephine is passionate about spaces that help us develop, where we can gain new insights and contribute to the world with our ‘deepest work’. She loves facilitating learning and is known for her lively training and action learning sets. She is in the process of accrediting as a coach with the International Coaching Federation.

Josephine has worked in the charity sector with women who sell sex for the last 25 years and has a Masters in ‘Violence Against Women’ from the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) at London Metropolitan University. She is the Co-Founder (and previous Co-Director) of Beyond the Streets, a UK charity working to end sexual exploitation.

As well as supporting and training activists and charities in social change focused work, Lucy works at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism as a Community Organiser.

Before joining the Bureau, Lucy led on media and communications at the charity INQUEST for seven years. She directly supported families bereaved by deaths in state care, custody and detention to share their stories and campaign for change. She also cocreated and continues to present the INQUEST podcast, Unlawful Killing.

Lucy identifies as a queer woman and lives by the sea with her cat Frank.

Her work helps everyone working for systemic social change ask deep questions about their role in making it happen, and how to implement practical strategies to build power and win.

She is a recognised thought leader in understanding how social movements make change happen and has worked for diverse social justice organisations including Friends of the Earth, 350.org and Mencap.

Natasha leads our Social Movements & Campaigns workshop. @tashahester; www.thinkingdoingchanging.com

She has a proven track record in developing and delivering effective advocacy strategies. 

Her work has had a demonstrable impact on UN frameworks, G20 processes, and national policies within the UK. She has a strong background working with cross-sector coalitions, such as the Police Bill Alliance, and supporting informal groups to campaign together. 

Her passion lies in coalition building and supporting organisations to campaign with confidence and impact. Rosemary is also a skilled facilitator and a member of the International Association of Facilitators.  

Rosemary leads our guided conversations for trustees on Navigating charity campaigning, ensuring that they are able to govern this area of work with confidence. 

As the co-founder and CEO of Just for Kids Law, she developed the holistic model of representation for children to improve lives of children and young people through the rule of law and advocacy.  Shauneen was also a founding member of Reprieve, the UK charity that fights for the rights of people facing the death penalty.

Shauneen leads the ‘Using the Legal System to Achieve Change’ workshop.  @ShauneenLambe

With specialisms in strategic change, theory of change, reflection, and wellbeing, she is anti-oppression and carbon literate aware, and has an MBA with specialisms in strategy and social movements.

She enjoys collaboratively exploring possibilities, asking: what is the problem, who has power, and what is possible? She has created change for many social issues, notably connections and loneliness, biodiversity and trees, sustainable transport, circular economy, and sport. Laura offers leadership, interim executive, consultancy, training, mentoring as well as hands on campaign management, and enjoys making change happen with charities at all levels – local, national and international. www.linkedin.com/in/lauraalcockferguson/

She has a solid track record of developing impactful strategies, managing diverse stakeholders, and facilitating and training campaigners.

Rebecca spent the first half of her career campaigning in the charity sector across issues including climate justice, tax justice, LGBTQ rights and refugee and migrant rights. She led the social mission team for ice cream activists Ben & Jerry’s, helping to develop campaigns across Europe to support refugees and migrants, before working as a consultant to help organisations from grassroots groups up to multinational companies better achieve their purpose and impact goals.

Rebecca is a trustee of the brilliant Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and People’s Economy, UK charities working to create more justice and equity for historically and systemically marginalised people. She holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford, and a masters’ degree in campaigning and social change from the University of Westminster.