Trustees

Audrey Bronstein

Audrey has been involved with JCUK since it started. She is Deputy Director of International Programmes at Oxfam GB, and her previous Oxfam experience includes work in Latin America, campaigns and advocacy and setting up Oxfam GB’s first programme on poverty in the UK which focused specifically bringing learning from the Global South to anti-poverty work in the UK. Previously she was a member of Inter-Action, the pioneering community arts organisation in London and led community development and community arts initiatives in Canada. The author of 'The Triple Struggle', a book promoting the voices of poor rural Latin American women, Audrey brings a strong focus on gender equity and women’s rights to her work on social change.

Chris Mowles Chris has been involved with JCUK since the beginning and has been involved in international development for 30 years. He worked for both VSO and Oxfam in the Middle East and went on to study ME politics and Arabic. Currently he is teaching part time on a doctoral programme for students which takes up ideas from the complexity sciences into management. He also works as a consultant to international NGOs and is concerned that they are increasingly using management methods imported directly from the private sector causing harm to both NGOs and communities in the South.
Martin Simon

Martin has worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors and has always been a passionate advocate for participation, mutuality and social justice. He is a community development specialist and has worked on projects in Europe, USA, Africa and India. He is the founder and Director of the “Fair Shares” network of community Time Banks in Gloucestershire, and he is now acting as the Executive Director of Time Banks UK, the umbrella organization for Time Banking in the UK.

Nikki van der Gaag Nikki van der Gaag has been involved with Just Change UK since it started. She is a freelance writer and editor on development issues, specialising in gender and human rights. Prior to this she was editorial director at the Panos Insititute, editor at New Internationalist and with Oxfam and Minority Rights Group. She has a longstanding interest in India.
Tricia Zipfel Tricia has spent her life working to tackle poverty and inequality in the UK . Her focus is on participation, community empowerment and neighbourhood renewal. She helped pioneer cooperative housing in the 1970s and ran a national neighbourhood regeneration programme until 2001, before spending 5 years as a government policy adviser. She now works on learning projects that connect ‘champions of participation’ around the world. She has been involved with Just Change UK since it began.
Lucy Gash Lucy became a director in 2008 continues to work as a volunteer with three others to support and expand the retailers in Manchester selling Just Change tea, and to get local communities invovled in the Just Change network. She is currently working full time with children, families and communities to develop and deliver Children's Centre services in an area of Greater Manchester
Dave Tucker Dave became involved with Just Change in 2003 after meeting Stan on a "Development from the Inside" course in Gudulur. Having met the adivasi community and seen the amazing thing they have achieved through Just Change - including building their own school and hospital - he joined the UK network in 2005. He is currently chair of the London volunteer group and works as a trade campaigner for War on Want.