Community Tech programme Fellows
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Vimla Appadoo
Vimla is the co-founder and director of culture design at Honey Badger, alongside head of experience at Culture-Shift.
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Alice Toomer
McAlpine - Alice is the Co-founder and Co-editor of The Meteor, a community worker and journalist from Manchester who works across a range of roles including journalism, youth work, community organising and creative documentation of non-profit projects.
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Jackie McNeish
Jackie works with young care leavers, recruiting and training people to become mentors to young people as they embark on becoming independent. This includes young people with complex needs and asylum seekers. She is also the CEO of a constituted community group called Women of Worth. This group works with African Caribbean women (not exclusively) who have been through domestic abuse and trauma.
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Paul Fairweather
Paul currently manages the Positive Speakers project at the George House Trust which is the main HIV charity in Greater Manchester.
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Reina Yaidoo
Reina has worked in fields intertwining technology and culture for the last decade. She runs a social enterprise specialising in science, tech and health for underrepresented communities. She also runs Sanguine, the science, tech and health show on local radio station and had been trained and presented on BBC Radio.
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Lisa Lingard
Lisa is Programme Manager at Manchester Climate Change Agency.
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Terry Manyeh
Terry is the community development coordinator for Manchester Active. He leads delivery for a new Sport England Pilot at Macc which aims to increase sport and physical activity.
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Debby Bolding
Debby is a development officer working with the 10 public library services in Greater Manchester, supporting partnership working, obtaining funding and coordinating library projects to support communities across the city region.
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Tom Togher
Tom is the chief executive of Salford Citizens Advice, and has been in post for over twenty years, he is also the chair of Salford Food Share, and a recently retired trustee of Salford’s Credit Union.