I have a variety of professional experience having started by career with an internet firm during the dot com boom. Applying this experience I established a social enterprise Simplyworks.co.uk which provides a range of web services to the voluntary sector and is run by a team consisting partly of recovering & former drugs users. I also have some overseas development experience and recently spent a year in Bolivia working on a community owned tourism project.

I am passionate about economic and social change at a micro level and the wider impact that this can have on the development of civil society.

I am co-founder of the Bikeworks social enterprise, which recycles old bicycles for community use and encourages cycling, working with groups such as young people with disabilities, Bangladeshi women and on housing estates.