We have a small but growing team of experienced professionals with backgrounds in regeneration, community development, planning and funding. We are managed by a small Board who ensure that our activities continue to benefit the community.

Core Team

 

Tony Mullin
Core Team
Tony has 20 years of regeneration experience working for various local authorities and regeneration partnerships in the north of England.
Robin Beveridge
Core Team
Robin has over 20 years experience of regeneration in the North East of England.
Elyse Murray
Core Team
Graduate in Politics and Sociology at the University of Leeds with an interest in interested in social injustice, inequality, urban regeneration and active participation.

The Board

Paul Greenhalgh
The Board
Paul is a Reader in Real Estate Economics, Faculty Director of Research Ethics, Chartered Surveyor and founding member of the URB@NE research group at Northumbria University.
Colin Seccombe
The Board
Colin retired as Chief Executive of Newcastle Building Society in 2010, having formerly been a partner of KPMG, specialising in audit of financial services organisations and corporate finance work.
Rosie McEachan
The Board
Rosie McEachan (@drrosiemc) is the Programme Director for Born in Bradford (www.borninbradford.nhs.uk) and co-Director of the Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub. Rosie is an experienced behavioural scientist with particular research interests in: the development and evaluation of complex interventions, environmental determinants of health, green space, and applied health research. She has a wide array of research skills including advanced qualitative and quantitative methods, intervention development, and behaviour change methodology. She is also a visiting Associate Professor with the School of Psychology at the University of Leeds.

Associates

Jo Ellis
Associate
Jo is a qualified Town Planner, with almost two decades’ experience in community development, regeneration and environmental protection.
Nigel Wild
Associate
Nigel is a specialist in community catering ventures, having set up bakeries, cafes and a whole-food shop (including the legendary Red Herring).
Amelia Robson
Associate
Amelia is a second year student studying human geography and planning at Leeds Beckett University. She particularly enjoys the planning and community involvement side of the course and has been nominated for the ‘Women in Property’ award.
Anna Laing
Associate
Anna is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northumbria University, researching and developing an employability strategy for geography graduates.
Elena
Horton
Elena is a sociology and social policy student in the final year of her undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds. She is particularly interested in social problems and inequality at a community based level.
Taiba Yasseen
Associate
Taiba is an advocate for charitable and community causes who has been Chief Executive of two organisations covering Equalities and the Arts. She is a specialist on community engagement and citizenship, and a champion for fairness and justice, recently working nationally with the DWP. Taiba is also a playwright, director and actor who has toured three plays nationally to promote better cultural understanding. Taiba also advised and worked on the award winning Channel 4 series “Make Bradford British”.