People
Inspiring people, organizations, and engagement
How can people - as individuals, groups and agencies - act to inform and create long-lasting, sustainable and socially impactful change? How do we encourage this, enable it, and what are the lessons here for places elsewhere?
Our Panel Lead
Jane’s career began freelancing across London’s theatre, film, radio and TV. Now, she specialises in not-for-profit governance as a recent Commissioner of Historic England, Chair of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site Partnership Board and former Chair of Spirit of 2012, the £47 million London 2012 legacy funder. Along the way she set up a cultural regeneration consultancy in Northumberland and was founding chair of Make It York. Her OBE, in 2022, was for services to volunteering, heritage and the arts.
Jane Gibson
Our Expert Panel
In 2023, a Churchill Fellowship took Jess to Canada and the US to find out how historic settlement houses keep creativity at the heart of their communities. Back in East London, she puts those ideas to work as Arts and Heritage Producer at Oxford House, one of the world’s earliest settlement houses, founded in 1884. She is passionate about the role arts and heritage play in bringing communities together.
Jess Ihejetoh
Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape Hon FRIBA is a multi-disciplinary artist, poet, visionary director and former BBC Radio London Presenter. Associate Artist of The Royal Albert Hall, Artist in Residence at 180 The Strand. Special participant at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Lesley Lokko OBE. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his contribution to architecture. Previously the first Poet in Residence at Saatchi Gallery, Grimshaw Architects, Snohetta, Junya Ishigami, AHMM, PLP, Squire & Partners and many more. Fallingwater Institute Artist-in-Resident, exploring the architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Lionheart
Alison is an entrepreneur, educator and consultant specialising in creative business strategy for fashion, lifestyle and retail brands, with a particular focus on start-ups and experiential retail. She mentors and advises creative founders, teaches at postgraduate level, and is a keynote speaker on entrepreneurship, experiential retailing and women in business. She is the author of Fashion Brand Management, the Amazon bestseller How to Start Your Own Fashion Label, and Fashion PR on a Budget. She was named in the Maserati 100 in 2016, received an MBE in 2017 for services to the fashion industry, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.