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Audrey Bronstein	Audrey is the head of the Oxfam UK Poverty Programme - has a long history of development work and is totally clued as far as poverty issues in the UK are concerned.
Chris Mowles	Chris is a free lance consultant and has done a lot of work on organisational development.
Mark Gale	Mark has been the Network Director of Gloucestershire Neighbourhood Projects Network since it launched its office in 1998. The Network is co-operative of 6 urban and 4 rural independent resident managed Neighbourhood Project each with large social housing estates. Mark helped introduce the first timebanks into the UK through local Fair Shares programme and was also the 1998 UK Community Entrepreneur of the Year Mark is now the chairperson of Fair Shares and Co-operative Futures which supports social enterprise development in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. Mark is currently a Board member of Gloucestershire First and the local Learning and Skills Council . Currently Mark is currently seconded part time to lead the development of the Gloucestershire Gateway Project the UK’s first eco community owned motorway service station
Martin Simon	Martin is the Executive Director of Time Banks UK *Professional Experience* Martin has worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors and has always been a passionate advocate for participation, mutuality and social justice. Martin is a Management Consultant and Personal Coach. He is a key strategist in the promotion of Co-Production and with Ana Miyares is leading on the internationalization of Time Banking / Time Dollars. *Contributions to the Time Dollar Movement* Martin Simon 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. *Major Trainings and Presentations* Martin is a popular speaker and an experienced workshop facilitator. *Major Publications* • “On Becoming A Time Broker” (a guide to setting up and running a community Time Bank) • A Fair Share of Health Care, National Health Service, 2003. *Professional History* 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.
Michael Norton	A merchant banker and publisher turned social activist, Michael Norton has devoted the past 30 years to running voluntary organisations, picking up an OBE on the way for services to charity. He transformed the charity world in the UK by setting up the Directory of Social Change in 1975 which pioneered the provision of training for people running charities, and publishes practical handbooks and a wide range of grant guides. Over the years he has initiated and supported a raft of interesting and effective projects around the world. These include: a banking scheme for South Asian street children, where the children actually run their own banks; village publishing and libraries to improve literacy in rural India; UnLtd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs, which makes awards to people in the UK who have ideas for better communities and a better world (which was set up with a £100 million grant from the Millennium Commission); Changemakers which encourages and supports young people to take action on issues that concern them, and the YouthBank scheme which gives young people the chance to donate money to local causes; and an international summer school for young activists from all over the world that is run entirely by young people. He has developed these and other initiatives through the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA), which he established in 1995. His most recent project is a book entitled 365 Ways to Change the World, which encourages everybody to become an everyday activist. This has already been published in six editions around the world. He is also the author of The Complete Fundraising Handbook and The WorldWide Fundraiser’s Handbook, both published in the UK, Getting Started in Fundraising and Getting Started in Communication, both published in India, and How to be a Community Champion and How to be a Fundraising Champion, two illustrated manuals for young activists.
Nikki van der Gaag	Nikki is based in Oxford and is one of the two most active trustees. Nikki is basically an independant writer was an editor of the New Internationalist for a number of years among other things.
Tricia Zipfel	Tricia was the founder of PEP - a large nationwide organisation that works with tenants on council estates. Their main work has been with helping tenants to take over the management of council estates. Tricia now works with the government and has been part of the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit.