Chris finds and tell stories of community-led change to inspire Transition groups and show your impact, taking care of our website, social media and monthly newsletter. She has a background in journalism and campaigning and has worked for Oxfam and Friends of the Earth. She is a founder of Repair Cafe Belfast and Belfast Tool Library, community projects which bring people together to share resources and skills and reduce consumption. She loves to tell stories that balance a glimpse of a better future and some practical steps to get there. Outside of work, you may find her tending her growing children and garden, or on the basketball court.

Danny leads on designing and delivering training and support for Transition Together, helping groups thrive in and around the transition network. He is passionate about how groups form, grow and evolve, and sees training and support as a vital element of this evolution. Danny is a facilitator, trainer and activist working in social movements to further ecological and social justice. He has 25 years experience leading and collaborating within groups, and draws on his background in theatre and the arts to embed creativity and opportunities for collaboration, connection and inner transition within his work. Danny is also a storyteller, and loves exploring wild places, surfing and working with young people.

El leads on commitments to integrating Just Transition more fully in the work of Transition Together. They are exploring pathways for enhancing practices and principles that centre equity and justice in the team and wider network, in ways that are guided by the wisdom of lived-experience and grassroots, held in the context and challenges of the wider world. El is coming from a number of years of climate and social justice activism, community organising, land-based education and group facilitation. They are incredibly blessed to be living in South Devon, where you will often find them out pottering in all weathers, swimming in the sea and gathering wild foods and medicines to share with community.

Mike is the lead link and holds the strategic overview of our project. He leads on developing partnerships with other organisations such as the CTRLShift Coalition. He has worked for Transition Network for nine years developing infrastructure and supporting the movement’s development in the UK. Mike has a background in community and sustainability and worked with Shelter on peer education projects, ran a homeless charity and on welfare rights. He is also a Schumacher Institute fellow exploring  systems thinking to deal with the complex issues we face. In his spare time Mike writes music, potters on his allotment, and helps run the Cube, an  Bristol arts centre.

Richard leads on supporting our network to develop and grow. This includes running events, administering our seed funding grants and building greater, healthy and more representative network connections between groups, regional organising and Transition Together. His background is in theatre production management, making and touring shows nationally and internationally. Since shifting to community-led change in 2012, he uses his production skills to support the development of Transition Town Tooting and the Transition London Hub. He’s passionate about facilitating space to bring people together and build community power.  In his spare time, you will find him watching his kids play football, practising martial arts and playing music.

Rob Hopkins holds the imagination thread in our team. He blogs, tweets, writes books and does public speaking about Transition. He is always asking ‘What If?’ and helps us co-organise excellent events such as the What Next Summit in 2021 and Together We Can in 2022. Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, the author of The Transition Handbook and most recently From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want. He presents the podcast series ‘From What If to What Next‘. In his spare time you will find him involved in the Atmos Totnes campaign, drawing, lino print making and reading lots.

Sam leads on developing & implementing the technologies we use to connect and support change. He has been working with the international Transition movement on the software behind the Vive platform, and helps the team and users explore how it can be developed to do more for Transition groups and individuals working on community-led change. Sam also acts as data protection officer for the organisation. Outside of his work for Transition he manages a growing project and is a director of a community interest company that supports agroecological food production.

Tim works with the team to embed action learning in our work. He has helped develop a monitoring and evaluation framework to reflect and deepen our understanding of how we can have impact. Tim is using the SCALE 3D model he developed during his PhD to guide us on a journey of discovery, exploring how community-led change can widen, deepen and lengthen through our work. He now uses this model to support transformative networks like ECOLISE and Transition Network to clarify and prioritise goals, design impact-orientated activities and understand progress towards long-lasting, widespread, and fundamental change.