Dr Stephen Burrell, Steering Group Co-Chair
Changing Relations is governed by a majority Non-Executive Board of Directors who volunteer their experience and expertise to support our Executive Directors in implementing our mission.
The Board is further supported by a Steering Group, whose role is to keep the Directors in touch with community needs and concerns. As a Community Interest Company, we want the wider community to have a say in the issues we address, and the way we approach them, and so have built community listening processes into our decision-making.
Executive Directors
Our Executive Directors manage the company on a day-to-day basis.
Non-Executive Directors
Our Non-Execs hold the Executive Directors to account and help them develop strategy in line with our vision, mission, aims and values.
Steering Group
Our Steering Group is designed to include those affected by the issues we address and to represent a diverse voice, including young people. Meetings are supported by our Co-Chairs, who will feed community views into the Board & support members to share their ideas & speak up.
Steering Group Members
Alix Collingwood-Swinburn
Alix is currently Curator for Contemporary Art at Durham University, managing the University’s collection of modern and contemporary art. Previously Curator at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) and a firm believer that creativity should be embedded into everyday learning, Alix has significant experience developing participatory art programmes and events, building partnerships with artists, communities and organisations.
Angela Thomas
Angela Thomas is Exhibitions Curator at The Auckland Project, responsible for researching and developing content for displays of artworks and objects across multiple galleries. A passionate advocate for the transformative power of art and heritage, Angela was born and raised locally and is keen to promote the fascinating history of the north-east.
Beverly Sherratt
Beverly is a businesswoman and Organisation Development professional. Prior to setting up in business, she had a career spanning over 20 years leading HR and Corporate Service functions. Having led organisations to achieve high ranking Best Company awards, she specialises in organisation design and culture, together with Board development, and personal development, enterprise and career direction mentoring.
Billie Jenkins
Co-Chair
Billie is passionate about working with projects that help individuals to pursue their ambitions and fulfil their potential. In her role with enterprise support organisation, PNE, she helps develop and deliver programmes that empower people to overcome barriers to employment and self-employment, from building the entrepreneurial skills of college students to creating fairer opportunities for women-led businesses.
Dr Kelly Stockdale
Dr Kelly Stockdale is a senior lecturer in criminology at Northumbria University. Her research relates to criminal justice, restorative justice and people’s lived experiences, when in contact with – or working for – criminal justice agencies. Kelly is passionate about creating supportive spaces that enable academics and practitioners to share ideas and foster collaborations, founding the North East Crime Research Network in 2014.
Dr Stephen Burrell
Co-Chair
Dr Stephen Burrell is an Assistant Professor working in the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) at Durham University, in the Department of Sociology. He has lived in Durham since 2014. Stephen’s research focuses on men and masculinities. He is particularly passionate about preventing gender-based violence and changing harmful gender norms, and is excited about the positive contribution the Steering Group can make to developing the work of Changing Relations, who he has been involved with since 2017.
Hayley Gillard
Hayley is an international coach, trainer and facilitator specialising in female leadership. She works actively in business development in the social sector – lecturing, mentoring and coaching aspiring leaders with a passion for people and the planet. She advocates that empathy, compassion and kindness are essential leadership traits and shows people that with reflection, self-acceptance and some brilliant techniques, they can be confident and compassionate leaders.
Helen Leake
As a numbers person (currently working as a public health intelligence analyst) Helen know the facts and figures of the impact of male violence; the gender pay gap and how whether someone is a girl or boy can affect their mental health, their lives and their hopes and plans for the future. Changing Relations pushes her out of her comfort zone of looking at the numbers; and uses the arts to create lasting change in our community. She’s excited to be involved.
Hope Simpson
Hope, 20, is a disabled self portrait artist and poet finding a way through within art and the wonder of human connection. She became chronically ill as a young teenager which led her to be unable to live life as she planned so she created her own path through creativity and expression. She is passionate about inclusivity within spaces and how art can build community.
Jane Shaw
Jane has over 25 years’ experience of working within enterprise development. Having established her first business in her early twenties she began to immerse herself in the development of enterprise projects. Seeing the potential of enterprise to positively change peoples’ lives, she established People Into Enterprise Ltd (PIE), providing interventions to help the people and organisations in the North East exploit their latent enterprise talents.
Jo Cameron
Jo is an award-winning businesswoman and HR Specialist with a career spanning the UK and Australia. Applying her 22 years experience in HR and Recruitment. Jo also uses her skills to educuate young people about the importance of exploring education, employability, entrepreneurship and enterprise opportunities in academies, schools, colleges and universities across the North East of England.
Jo Chandler
Jo is from Durham, but is currently studying for a Master’s degree at Edinburgh College of Art, with an academic focus on socially engaged art. She is interested in how the arts can be used to build community and confront inequalities.
Lindsay Parker
Lindsay Parker is a multi-award-winning journalist and communications strategist. She runs the Durham-based consultancy, Stride Pr, and helps organisations to raise their profiles and protect their reputations via a mixture of strategic communications support, media training, and good story telling.
Lisa Charlotte Davis
Managing Director
Inspired by her involvement with the One Billion Rising global campaign, Lisa founded Changing Relations in 2013. A passionate and skilled teacher, Lisa has worked in a range of educational settings, locally and internationally, educating young people and adults, developing and delivering training for teachers. She left teaching to pursue her commitment to gender equality, and now spearheads the company’s strategic direction.
Lucie Hall
Lucie has worked locally within community development over the last few years and now volunteers in several different capacities within the community, focusing on nourishment, health and wellbeing.