Staff
Peter Holbrook, Chief Executive
Peter is hungry for social justice and believes that social enterprise provides one of our very best hopes. He’s passionate about communities creating change through innovation.
Prior to joining Social Enterprise UK, Peter was founding CEO of Sunlight Development Trust, a social enterprise that delivers a wide range of integrated community services, including youth engagement, health services, parenting support and support for the elderly. To support these initiatives he established a network of award winning social enterprises including event catering, community radio, property management and digital media services.
In 2007, Peter was appointed to be one of the UK's Social Enterprise Ambassadors. He is a member of the Government’s mutuals taskforce, employee engagement taskforce and is a board member of Big Society Trust, overseeing the delivery of Big Society Capital. Peter has previously worked for Oxfam, Greenpeace, Marks and Spencer and Body Shop International.
He takes inspiration from a wide range of social enterprises but PM Training, Hill Holt Wood, The People’s Food Company, Bikeworks, Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen (Wales), and 10,000HOURS CIC are among his current favourites.
peter.holbrook@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4947
Leanne Cripps, Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive
Leanne provides Personal Assistant support to Peter Holbrook and the other members of the Senior Leadership Team. She also leads on Governance support for Board and Council meetings and elections.
And if that’s not enough, given how busy Peter’s diary is, Leanne provides office management for the organisation. The place would grind to halt without Leanne here.
Social enterprises that inspire Leanne include Social Spider CIC (whose Development Director, Mark Brown, is editor of the flagship magazine One in Four) and Sock Mob, which cuts through prejudices about homelessness based upon the simple notion that all it takes is an open mind, and a pair of socks...
leanne.cripps@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4947
Soori Saghedi, Finance and Human Resources Officer
Soori looks after the finance operations with our customers and suppliers, and ensures that the finance and HR records are maintained.
Prior to this role, Soori was the finance officer at Cranstoun, a not-for-profit organisation that offers support and treatment services to those affected by drug use.
Soori is inspired by the work of social enterprises and is excited by how the movement is growing and shaping, and what lies ahead. She’s a big fan of Jamie Oliver’s work, from the young people’s Apprentice Programme at Fifteen to his food revolution in the USA.
soori.sadeghi@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4963
Celia Richardson, Director of Policy and Communications
Celia has spent sixteen years in the not-for-profit sector in the UK. She loves big ideas and was attracted to the social enterprise movement from the charity sector last year because she fell for the big idea.
Her experience spans disability rights, mental health, refugee issues, urban regeneration and children and young people. She went to Ashridge Business School. Celia has twice been named among the most influential 1% of the UK’s PR industry, thanks to some great teams she has led.
At Social Enterprise UK she is very excited about the fantastic team she is working with – policy experts, fab media and social media afficionadoes and all-round stars. She loves collaboration and alliances between like-minded organisations and would be very interested to hear from anyone who wants to work with SEUK on campaigns, communications, ideas-exchange, and joint projects.
Social enterprise Celia is admiring: at the moment she is very happy about progress towards a Social Stock Exchange in the UK and agrees with Jonathan Jenkins’ dream to make everyone a social investor. She also loves the school events social enterprises she met recently as part of O2’s Think Big project.
celia.richardson@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4948
Ceri Jones, Head of Policy and Research
Having been meaning to stay for three months Ceri has now been at Social Enterprise UK for close to five years, committed to the belief that social enterprise just makes sense.
In this time she and her team have worked to ensure that social enterprise is widely understood across government with a policy framework to support social enterprise to thrive. On the back of their work leading up to the last election they were short listed for the best in-house public affairs team. Alongside influencing government she loves data and is passionate about demonstrating the change that social enterprise can create – socially, economically and environmentally.
With a background in public health, Ceri has endless admiration for the large number of amazing health and social care social enterprises, and the innovative approaches and commitment they are putting into transforming care. Be it six nurses in Dudley or the whole of community and social care in Grimsby.
ceri.jones@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4952
07815 573 002
Olof Jonsdottir, Policy and Public Affairs Manager
Ólöf specialises in public services policy, particularly anything relating to children and young people’s services. Ólöf also leads SEUK’s political work, including organising our party conference programme and managing the Secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Enterprise. She loves political campaigning and is thrilled that Chris White MP’s Bill is now the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
Ólöf has MAs in International Relations and French from St. Andrews and King’s College London, where she specialised in ethics, political theory and diplomacy. Between finishing her studies and joining SEUK in 2007, Ólöf worked at a primary school in Brixton, where her role included everything from conducting a string group in the end of year assembly to dealing with fights in the playground.
She is also very proud to play in her local brass band, Regent Brass.
Social enterprises Ólöf is admiring: Hill Holt Wood, the Acorn House, and Street League.
olof.jonsdottir@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4953
Charlotte Chung, Policy and Research Officer
Charlotte works to engage social enterprises with the government's business growth and green agenda, and is the policy lead on our Social Investment and Finance Programme.
Charlotte coordinates our Social Investment and Finance Executive Group. Specific things she is currently working on include developing a plan to campaign for discretionary business rate relief for social enterprises, and identifying opportunities in the Green Deal.
It was exploring how the private sector can positively engage in post-conflict development during her Masters that first sparked Charlotte’s interest in ways of doing business that bridge working for profit and working for social justice. She is interested to see how the things she has learnt here can be applied to post-conflict development – using business as a vehicle to rebuild economies, communities, and trust in working together.
Making social enterprise really accessible for people in their everyday lives, such as getting dressed or doing their grocery shopping is a great way to show how easy it is to do something small to make a difference. That’s why Elvis and Kresse is the social enterprise Charlotte is admiring at the moment – she loves Kresse’s logic that ‘I think I'm capable of fixing this problem, and because I'm capable I'm obliged.'
charlotte.chung@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4954
Fran Gorman, Media and Communications Manager
Fran manages media, marketing and our online presence to spread the word about social enterprise, and about the work of our members. Fran has more than ten years experience working in public relations in the voluntary and private sectors.
fran.gorman@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4949
07967 586489
Sam Simmons, Media and Communications Officer
Sam works as part of our communications team, helping to raise the profile of social enterprises and showcase the amazing stories they have to tell. Sam comes from the charity world, having worked for a range of humanitarian aid and international development organisations. Sam loves what social enterprises are achieving up and down the country, and how they work to help communities and do good business at the same time. He is also the voice behind our social media.
sam.simmons@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4951
07742782673
Nick Temple, Director of Business and Enterprise
Before joining Social Enterprise UK, Nick was working as an independent consultant with a whole host of organisations, including UnLtd, Skills Third Sector, the Guardian, Venture Partnership Foundation, Stepping Out, British Council and the London School of Economics.
Nick also co-founded and helped run POPse!, the world’s first pop-up social enterprise think-tank, and is on the board of the SROI Network.
Nick was previously the Director of Policy and Communications at the School for Social Entrepreneurs, with responsibility for all communications, policy work with government, and overseeing evaluation and research. He also designed and delivered learning programmes on social franchising and for leaders of NHS Right to Request social enterprises. Before that, he was director of the Global Ideas Bank and the Natural Death Centre, and co-edited Poem for the Day Two and the Time Out Book of Country Walks vol.2, books whose royalties go back into charitable work.
Nick is a huge fan of both coffee and American Football, which makes his current fave social enterprises CaféDirect (especially in the form of Machu Picchu Organic) and the Green Bay Packers, the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States (and the current SuperBowl champions).
nick.temple@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4955
07968 810716
Samantha Raoult, Membership Officer
Samantha welcomes our members to the organisation and keeps them updated on all things social enterprise.
Samantha is a big fan of all the social entrepreneurs who came out of her university, the University of Warwick. They are all inspiring, and worthy of special mention are Andre Hackett, of London Mobile Studios and We Make A Change Ltd, as well as Emma Biermann and Casper ter Kuile who co-founded UK Youth Climate Coalition.
membership@socialenterprise.org.uk
0203 589 4958
Craig Carey, Business Support Programme Manager
Craig manages and oversees a range of programmes and projects in the Business & Enterprise team at Social Enterprise UK. This includes our portfolio of grants, corporate and government contracts.
Craig is also working on developing business support offers for our members and developing partnerships with quality support organisations. At the moment he is planning the Social Enterprise Exchange, happening on 27th March in Glasgow. Set to be the biggest social enterprise event in 2012!
Craig has over 10 years experience providing business advice, and has worked with more than 20 charities, social enterprises and NGOs to help them develop their strategic and business plans. Much of this has been at grassroots level. His passion is around access to quality support, taking the best of business to create social value and building capacity to grow and make organisations sustainable. Profit is not a dirty word; it’s what you do with it!
Craig also is chair of MySI, a charity that works with young people to help them develop their business ideas to set up social enterprises within their local communities. Work is underway to grow MySI through partnership work and to set up a CIC.
Craig has an MBA and degree in Economics. Being a mad football fan, the work of the social enterprise 10,000 HOURS CIC has caught his imagination.
craig.carey@socialenterprise.org.uk
020 3589 4956