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Jose Augusto Barco A Colombian Community Organiser, and Art of Hosting Practitioner. Jose Augusto Barco, is a social entrepreneur based in Bristol, UK and Founder of Community CoLab. He is passionate about people power, social change and social justice, creating spaces for meaningful participation and collaboration at an organisational and grassroots level.
He understands the complexity of working with diverse groups and communities and his experience includes working with local and national organisations as a trainer, group process designer, campaigner and consultant. Jose is also a founding director of Community Organisers Ltd, a national body supporting the training and development of community organisers in England. His work is influenced by his creative practices, musical roots and permaculture principles. |
Fausto Llopis PeñaFausto is a Spaniard based in the UK, he is a member of Civic Wise and has been a Community Organiser for Pembroke House Community Centre in London for a number of years, working with the local community to create positive change through grassroots action. He specialises in designing and hosting conversations that matter to people and organisations.
Throughout his career Fausto has been involved in community work in diverse environments, providing advice, training, personal support, project management and networking with a range of agencies and target groups including the disabled, community residents, homeless, Roma children and subsistence farmers. His experience also includes graphic and video harvesting of events, developing strategic project plans and evaluating tools to continuously improve actions using a participatory action research approach. |
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Latoyah McAllister JonesLa Toyah is a change management consultant with diverse skills set. She has experience in programme design and delivery, project management, workshop facilitation, community outreach, team development and action research. She has worked in a number of settings, predominately in the homelessness sector but also has experience in criminal justice, restorative practice and action research.
LaToyah is originally from Hackney in London and now based in Bristol, she is a community organiser, and facilitator with significant experience of designing and delivering workshops and learning events focusing on client engagement and using strengths based approaches to stakeholder engagement and team management. |
Georgina WilsonGeorgina is passionate about helping others to fulfil their potential and to be empowered to realise their vision of positive change in business, community and their personal development.
Social Entrepreneur, Trainer, Teacher, Coach, Public Speaker, Author, Community Engagement, Marketing and Sales are just a few of the talents she offers around her ethos of empowerment. She has delivered training with various organisations in London, some of her favourite courses are in Community Development, Starting your own Enterprise and Discovering your Potential. Her innovation, creativity and ability to think “outside the box” has enabled her to continually work alongside clients to develop strategies for project growth, engagement branding and publicity. |
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Cait CrossCait is a facilitator and trainer based in Bristol with a background in popular education, research and community organising. She’s passionate about building creative, engaged, connected communities that are a force for positive change.
Cait’s worked with a range of civil society groups to develop their change making skills and take action, most recently as manager of the Quaker’s New Economy project. Cait’s pride and joy is innovative education charity English For Action where she’s worked for the last seven years, supporting migrants and refugees to collectively challenge injustice. Cait has helped to collaboratively develop and run this charity, and has expertise to share around grassroots organisational development, strategy and participatory evaluation processes and meeting facilitation. She’s trained other practitioners across the country in participatory approaches to training and course delivery and in gender awareness. Cait also supports meetings and trainings with graphic recording. Outside work, Cait enjoys reading, meditating and driving off in her van to sit by fires. |
