Liddy Hall Chair of the Board Expand My career in the public and voluntary sector has spanned over 35 years, responding to a wide range of needs in a number of different roles and settings. I have a background in social work management and latterly, I worked with a number of mental health recovery services in the Scottish Borders region. Currently, I run my own Advocacy service that helps people with multiple and complex crises needs to be heard and understood. These experiences of working in a supportive capacity consolidated my core belief that all individuals should have access to equal opportunities, a belief which chimes with the original inspiration of Wellspring – ‘a new centre where young and old could find understanding, and help in working out new and creative directions.’
Lesley Mitchell Expand I am currently Head of Human Resources & Office Services at The Royal Town Planning Institute, a professional membership organisation and charity. My HR experience has been in the NHS, leisure management and professional membership. Over the last 20 years my roles have covered a broad range of areas from TUPE transfers, employee relations, mergers and re-structures to facilities management, health and safety, wellbeing, culture development, performance management and learning and development initiatives. My voluntary roles in the past have included Governor for a large academy for girls and leading historic walks in London.
Lily Asch Expand Lily Asch is a mental health advocate, storyteller and social entrepreneur. She has previously worked with FreshSight and TEDxUniversityofEdinburgh and has since gone on to found Real Talk (www.realtalkproject.org), a social enterprise dedicated to mental health storytelling and wellbeing. She has completed her COSCA PG Counselling Skills Certificate, is a part of the storytelling collective TellYours and is the recipient of the Young Entrepreneur Award from Investing Women.
Steve Earl Expand I design and co-design collaborative strategies that bring together the partners that need to work together to create long-term impact, In the technology sector I work with combining government, industry and universities to create long-term strategies. I also use collaborative strategies with local communities and other communities of practices to help bring out their collective intent and help them create their own future development plans. I am also involved in education projects that encourage thinking and participation, helping to create an ethos of learning and creativity, including the Non-Fiction Science project that focuses on finding the science errors in movies, correcting for them and then remaking the movie with the new changes!