Who are we?
This network is for Community Asset Developers (CADs), who work with their communities to transform their urban neighbourhoods in socially just, ecologically safe ways. We do this by activating and stewarding land and buildings to build local power and wealth for the long-term.
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Aftab Rahman (CEO, Legacy West Midlands)
Andy Edwards (Executive Director & Cofounder, Makespace Oxford)
Angie Wright (CEO, B Inspired)
Brian Dawe (CEO, SAFE Regeneration)
Clare de Bathe (CEO, Chichester Development Trust)
Craig Richardson (Business Manager, Back on the Map)
Danie Gilbert (Co-founder, Good Shepherd Studios)
Deana Bamford (Connector, Coalville CAN)
Edward Whitelaw (Director, Real Ideas)
Emma Harvey (CEO, Trinity Community Arts)
Frances Northrop (Director, Totnes Community Builders)
Hannah Sloggett and Wendy Hart (Co-directors, Nudge Community Builders)
Immy Kaur (Co-founder & Director, Civic Square)
James Neward (COO, Yorspace)
Jennifer Harrison (CEO, North Smethwick Development Trust)
Jen Storan (Projects Director, Meanwhile Space)
Jess Prendergast (Director, Onion Collective)
Dr Jess Steele OBE (CEO & Commoner-at-Large, Hastings Commons)
Joanne Cooper (Chief Executive, Back on the Map)
Juliet Can (Founder Director, Stour Trust)
Kathryn Chiswell Jones (Manager, Artspace Lifespace)​
Lenny Watson & Sophie Farrell (Founders and Directors, Sister Midnight Community Venues)
Linda Bloomfield (Founder and Director, RivelinCo)
Marie Osborne (CEO/Director Future Wolverton Limited)
Martin Hulse (Trust Manager, Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust)
Melissa Mean (Director, WeCanMake)
Pauline Johnston (Founder, Station South CIC & Civic and Social)
Sarah Gorman (Chief Executive, Edberts House)
Victoria Barrow Williams and Kelly Abbott (Co-founders, People Dem Collective)
The Network is steadily growing ... ​​
Since first coming together at Hawkwood in November 2023, community asset leaders representing organisations and movements including:
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The Mycelial Network is supported by Footwork Trust (fiscal host & co-convenor), Platform Places (co-initiator and co-convenor), and funder-partners Power to Change and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.