Our Team
David Evans
Managing Director
Since founding TCC in 2001 with Jonathan Upton, David has been responsible for developing the company’s communications and community engagement capacity. He has developed highly innovative methods of engagement such as the widely acclaimed Young Mayor scheme and is pioneering our community cohesion work with a range of local authorities. He also designs and implements training and support programmes for a variety of membership based organisations.
David has over twenty years experience of marketing and political communications gained in local government and politics.
david@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Rachel Ward
Director of Health
With more than five years experience working in NHS communications, Rachel has a strong track record of delivery across internal and external communications as well as media relations.
Before joining TCC Rachel worked as communications manager at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where she successfully handled major national and international news stories, including the UK's first live liver transplant and Richard Hammond's car crash. Rachel was also responsible for developing and managing the organisation's internal communications and Leeds-wide initiatives with partner organisations.
In her role at TCC Rachel has been responsible for providing media management and communications support to Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Currently, Rachel is leading on our social marketing work in South Yorkshire as well as perceptions and stakeholder communications audit work with health agencies in the North of England. Rachel is Prince2 trained to Practitioner level.
rachel@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Graeme Alexander Wilson
Director of Resource and Delivery
Before joining The Campaign Company Graeme worked as a Parliamentary researcher for a member of the Liberal Democrat Treasury Team. He graduated with a degree in politics from the University of Strathclyde in 2001 and has volunteered with Amnesty International in Edinburgh working on a major donor project and also with the Commonwealth Policy Study Unit (CPSU) in London on the Ramphal Centre project.
Graeme works across a number of the business sectors and is responsible for front line day to day delivery and resource allocation. Graeme's responsibilities include team management, line management, and client management.
Have worked extensively in the communities and membership organisation sectors of the business, Graeme has helped the company to deliver innovative community engagement projects and high level consultancy to large and small membership organisations. Graeme is Prince2 trained to Practitioner level.
graeme@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Kevin Huggins Cooper
Director of Public Sector Transformation.
An effective and innovative senior leader and manager, who has worked for 6 years at Board level in a rapidly improving council, responsible for corporate services and council transformation. With almost 25 years of public and voluntary sector experience, he has been responsible for major programmes on communications, community engagement and equalities and diversity, and has worked on the development and delivery of major value for money and inspection programmes at the Audit Commission.
Kevin has worked on the development of Local Strategic Partnerships and has led the development of community strategies and visioning activities.
kevin@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Claire Harding
Head of Research
Claire specialises in community cohesion and engagement, working for local authorities across England. She is responsible for TCC's Capital Ambition research and project delivery for Bexley, Havering and Sutton, and has recently been managing part of the Leadership Training element of the Connecting Communities programme.
Claire has a first class degree in history from the University of Cambridge, where she specialised in British social history. She has previously worked for London Underground and for a human rights charity.
claire@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Joanna Crispe
Project Assistant
Joanna comes to The Campaign Company with an international perspective and experience in stakeholder engagement and organisational capacity building. Prior to returning to London in 2009 to pursue an MSc in Urbanisation and Development at the London School of Economics, Joanna worked for The Idea Village where she launched a business incubator facility supporting innovation and entrepreneurial talent to foster economic development in New Orleans’ recovering Ninth Ward neighbourhood. She has also managed workplace fundraising campaigns for the United Way, the largest community development organisation in the US, and conducted capacity building training with not-for-profit organizations across a variety of mission areas. Her academic background in anthropology, urban policy and development studies shapes her approach to projects engaging diverse urban communities. Joanna is providing project and research assistance on a social enterprise development project engaging communities in the provision of adult social care in Kirklees. She is also working to develop aspects of the TCC research methodology.
joanna@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Edward Lewsey
Project officer
Edward graduated from the University of Essex in 2008 with a BA in Modern History & Politics. Whilst at university he became involved with volunteering, namely with the student run and led crisis listening service Nightline as an executive committee member, and as a First Aider and executive committee member with St. John Ambulance LINKS. Since leaving university Edward has worked for Maldon District Council in historic conservation and with the Spatial Planning & Policy team. He has continued with St. John Ambulance and does volunteer work with Essex Police. Last November he attained a project management qualification and joining TCC in 2010 Edward is now starting work on a project in Havering and other office duties.
edward@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Yasmin Dar
Business Support Administrator
Yasmin graduated from London Metropolitan University in 2004 with a BA Hons in Business and Business IT. Yasmin has since worked with a variety of Local Government Boroughs developing excellent customer service, administration and business support skills, including ideas to streamline business process to provide a certain level of efficiency and support within a Business. Yasmin has a portfolio of skills which have been achieved through undertaking projects within Procurement, Personnel/ HR and Learning and Development. During previous roles Yasmin has provided support to HR Managers, Business Partners and Service Delivery managers, gaining a wide range of experience within both Public and Private Sector companies. At TCC Yasmin is responsible for supporting the business development, marketing and procurement teams and embedding best practice throughout the organisation. Yasmin plays a key role in supporting all staff members in the organisation and works closely with each Director to support the efficient and organised approach to the day to day running of the business.
Robert Evans
Office Assistant
Before joining The Campaign Company, Robert worked for ten years as a kitchen assistant at the Elmwood Nursing Home. He has also worked as a shop assistant at the Croydon Co-operative and Sainsbury’s. Rob has recently been awarded his NVQ level 2 in Business and Administration.
Rob works part time for The Campaign Company and is responsible for keeping the office clean and tidy, monitoring of stationery, post and franking, looking after full time staff and visitors and purchasing of day to day office supplies.
Sarah Driscoll
Business Support Manager
Sarah originally trained as a Secondary PE teacher at Chichester University and before joining The Campaign Company Sarah worked as a Project Manager for Specsavers, where she successfully managed and implemented a national roll out of new furniture/equipment into over 400 UK stores.
In her role at TCC Sarah works closely with the Business Development team and plays a key role in the implementation and facilitation of new systems and project management processes. As part of her HR role, Sarah is responsible for all recruitment, staff training, the staff appraisal process, resource management and provides key statistical financial and project management information to the Senior Management Team to assist in the delivery of the company's key objectives. Sarah is Prince2 trained to Practitioner level.
sdriscoll@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Charlie Mansell
Research and Political Development Officer
Charlie joined The Campaign Company in December 2006. He worked as a civil servant in the Treasury in Whitehall for 16 years and was a local Councillor for 20 years. This included a number of years carrying out the role full time. He was a member of a Community Health Council for 10 years and also a Police Consultative Group. His proudest work was as a non-executive director of a Regeneration Partnership for 10 years, which led to the complete regeneration of a 1,800 home housing estate so that there is now a waiting list to move there instead of residents wanting to move away. Charlie has a wide-ranging knowledge of community engagement across the local government, policing, health and housing sectors through practical and active hands-on involvement over the last 25 years.
Charlie focuses on ensuring that The Campaign Company is at the cutting edge of all the fields it is involved with. He is also involved in the preparatory work for many projects including many of our social marketing and all our community cohesion projects. He has also worked on the delivery of projects including: Barking and Dagenham Community Cohesion Strategy, East Sussex Community Engagement Project, Musicians Union UMF and North Tyneside Neighbourhood mapping.
charlie@thecampaigncompany.co.uk
Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 January 2012 14:15