Partners

We work with individuals and organisations across different sectors in the UK and internationally. Many of our partners are listed below.

Adrian Ball, Chief Executive Manchester Settlement - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Adrian Morley, Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Aidan While, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield - Local Governance, Environmental Planning and Community Engagement in Greater Manchester
Alex Whinnom, Chief Executive GMCVO - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Alice Toomer McAlpine, Media Producer, Journalist and Community Worker - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Amanda Bickerton, National Community Link Worker Church Action on Poverty, Communications - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Andrew Burridge Occupation Policy & Programme Manager in a Regional Adult Social Care Programme Office - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Beth Chitekwe-Biti, Director, Peoples Dialogue on Shelter, Zimbabwe - Community-led Organising: Seeing the inner city from the South
Bill Adams, Regional Trade Unions Congress for Yorkshire and Humber - Trade Union Pathways to Low-carbon Transition in Yorkshire and Humber
Brad Blundell, Anthesis - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Carl Foster, Store Manager, Tesco - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Catherine Durose, Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Ceri Ashton, Allotments manager, Sheffield City Council - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Cherryl Brock, Councillor and Elected rep for Food Chains for Europe project, Oldham Council - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Corin Bell, Director, Real Junk Food Manchester - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Dave Fraser, Team Leader Small Community Cooperative to address poverty - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Debbie Ellen, Independent Researcher - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester - Community-led Organising: Seeing the inner city from the South
Dominic Coleman, Oldham Policy Team & Interreg Project - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Emily Westwell, Kindling Trust - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Gareth Roberts, Co-op Manager, Regather - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Gloria Dawson, Freelance Researcher - Cultural Heritage and Just City
Hamish Cunningham, Professor of Internet Computing, University of Sheffield - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Hannah Berry, Homes for Change Housing Cooperative and Greater Manchester Housing Action - Housing Futures: Community-led Alternatives for Greater Manchester
Isaac Rose, Greater Manchester Housing Action - Housing Futures: Community-led Alternatives for Greater Manchester
Jack Makau, Director, Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) Kenya - Community-led Organising: Seeing the inner city from the South
Jason Rowlands, Director of Planning, Performance and Governance, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Trust - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Jemma Hynes, Food Sync - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Jenny Rouse, Head of Regional Funding North West Big Lottery Fund - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Jessica Wilson, Health Improvement Principal, Sheffield City Council - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Jez Hall, Self-employed Consultant & Director of Shared Future CIC - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Joe Muturi, National Coordinator, Muungano Wa Wanavijiji (Kenyan Alliance of Slum-Dwellers) - Community-led Organising: Seeing the inner city from the South
John Le Corney, Chief Exec, Heeley City Farm - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Julie Ann Daley, Secretary, Mums Mart, Manchester - Community-led Organising: Seeing the inner city from the South
Julie Asumu, Voluntary Project Manager Community Centre - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Julie Ralph, Sensible Housing Cooperative, Bolton - Housing Futures: Community-led Alternatives for Greater Manchester
Karen Shannon, Manchester Histories - Whose Knowledge Matters? Contesting Sustainable Urban Development
Kate Finney, Co-Founder and Lead Facilitator at amity - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Laura Ager, Freelance Film Programmer and Event Organiser - Cultural Heritage and Just City
Laura Williams, Activism Officer at Global Justice Now - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Leon Ballin, Network Manager, Sustainable Food Cities - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield and Manchester
Liz Harris, Health GM / Programme Tameside Manager, Public Health, Tameside - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Liz Richardson, Reader, University of Manchester - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Louise Matrix Evans, Chief Executive, Quantum Technology - Local Governance, Environmental Planning and Community Engagement in Greater Manchester
Lucy Danger, Chair, GM Food Partnership Board - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Manchester
Maria Allen, Chair, Mums Mart, Manchester - Community-led Organising: Seeing the inner city from the South
Mark Atherton, GM Director of Environment, Greater Manchester Combined Authority - Local Governance, Environmental Planning and Community Engagement in Greater Manchester
Mark Burton, Steady State Manchester - Whose Knowledge Matters? Contesting Sustainable Urban Development
Megan Blake, Food Justice Researcher, University of Sheffield - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Nick Spencer, School Procurement, Taylor Shaw - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Paul Maher, Director at The Children’s Society - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Mike Drabble, Councillor and Cabinet Adviser for Children, Young People and Families (Tackling Poverty), Sheffield City Council - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
René Meijer, Volunteer, Real Junk Food Sheffield - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Richard Goulding, Research Consultant - Housing Futures: Community-led Alternatives for Greater Manchester
Rick Watson, Food Group Lead, Sheffield Climate Alliance - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Rowland Atkinson, Chair of Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield - Just Universities
Ruby Munson-Hurst, Fundraiser, Sage Green Fingers - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Sharon Davis, Treasurer, Mums Mart, Manchester - Community-led Organising: Seeing the inner city from the South
Stephen Connelly, Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield - Trade Union Pathways to Low-carbon Transition in Yorkshire and Humber
Steve Barraclough, Store Manager, Waitrose - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Steve Connor, Chief Executive, Creative Concern - Local Governance, Environmental Planning and Community Engagement in Greater Manchester
Susan Hird, Consultant in Public Health, Sheffield City Council - Self-organising Action for Food Equity (SAFE) - Sheffield
Susan Schofield, Treasurer, Lower Broughton Savers - Community-led Organising: Seeing the inner city from the South
Susanne Martikke, Research Officer, GMCVO - The Action Research Co-operative (ARC)
Tina Bugliosi, Environmental Policy Officer, Greater Manchester Combined Authority - Local Governance, Environmental Planning and Community Engagement in Greater Manchester
Tony Whyton, Professor, Birmingham City University - Cultural Heritage and Just City