The Change Collective | Meet the collective

We’re a group of highly experienced professionals, working across sectors and with different disciplines, connected through a belief that the arts can be transformative

Dan is an international Arts and Development trainer and consultant and an experienced theatre practitioner. He recently ran a number of successful workshops for British Council in Sudan and Ethiopia, bringing together artists and arts organisations from across the Horn of Africa. He also designed the arts strand of the Active Citizens Social Leadership programme. He also designed the arts strand of the Active Citizens Social Leadership programme. A Winston Churchill Fellow, Dan has designed and delivered workshops all over the world, from Bosnia to Brazil. He is the Artistic Director of The Change Collective.

Chantelle Lindo-Davies

Chantelle is a founding member of TCC. Previously a Senior Development Worker for The Children’s Society Include Programme and the lead on the Affecting Change for Families project funded by the Elton John Aids Foundation. Chantelle then went on to lead training and consultancy around changes to The Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014 which significantly strengthened the rights for young carers. Chantelle is currently a social worker supporting disabled children and their families.

Chloe Osborne

Chloe is a participatory artist and creative producer who makes work designed to engage the public in issues that are important for social change. She works in collaboration and partnership with like-minded artists and organisations to design creative projects and arts experiences in the public realm. Chloe is an Associate Director at Emergency Exit Arts and Creative Producer for A New Direction and Bureau Of Silly Ideas. She regularly collaborates with Aswarm and BeautifulMess Theatre and is a co-founder of Club Silly.

Alys Hughes

Alys has an eclectic range of experience that has been driven by her passion for connections, both between people, and with the natural world. She has previously worked supporting unaccompanied minors seeking asylum; volunteered for women’s organisations in Pakistan, India and Nepal; worked on various projects for young people including youth councils and inter-generational projects, and supported young people in pupil referral units. She is a graduate of Manchester University, with an MA in Applied Theatre. For the last 4 years she has been working in Walpole Park, Ealing where she has developed an outdoor environmental education programme, aimed at school children, early years groups and families. Along side this, Alys dedicates her energy to dance.

Dan Smith

Dan has had fifteen years building innovative and successful culture and community projects in the UK and internationally. His specific expertise includes designing new initiatives, creativity and innovation, systems and complexity, inter-cultural dialogue, arts-based approaches, strategy and partnership building. He has spent the last seven years working as a freelance consultant to governments and International Non-Governmental Organisations, working in over 30 countries and with organisations including the Department for International Development (DfID), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the European Commission (EC), the British Council, Plan International and War Child.

Kati Francis

Theatre maker, performer, facilitator, activist. Artistic Director of BeautifulMess Theatre cic, making Arts Council funded multi-sensory public performance since 2013: “fresh, uncensored theatre...truly for EVERYONE!” (Islington Community Theatre). People United commissioned artist 2016. Commissioned locally & internationally to create celebratory, community-embedded, socially-relevant performance.

Lorna McGinty

Lorna is an Applied and Community Arts practitioner and producer specialising in theatre and dance, with published academic work in the field. She has extensive experience in creating, delivering and managing projects designed to facilitate democratic access to arts practice, and employ creativity as a pedagogic tool. Lorna currently works in the Creative Learning Department of the Barbican. Her CV covers work with organisations such as Central School of Speech and Drama, Creative Partnerships, Gendered Intelligence, Hoxton Hall, the National Centre for Circus Arts, South London Refugee Association and Sure Start.

Laila Sumpton

Laila is a Youth Engagement Officer at child rights NGO Plan UK and also a freelance poet. She is an Associate Writer at writers development agency Spread the Word and has lead poetry projects at the British Library, the National Literacy Trust, St Georges Hospital, and numerous schools, universities, charities and heritage sites across the country. She co-directs Bards Without Borders an Arts Council funded refugee and migrant poetry collective and is preparing her own poetry collection for publication.

Orla Hasson

Orla combines applied theatre and systemic coaching to guide and work together with individuals, groups, communities and organisations who are asking themselves questions about how to grow and live better. Hailing from Northern Ireland she has been involved with many peace education projects in Ireland, the U.K, and in the Basque Country, Northern Spain, through organisations such as St Columb's Park House, Derry/Londonderry and Baketik, Centre for Peace, Basque Country, Spain. 2011 - 2016

Orla lived in London where she led process based work with Spare Tyre, trained and led arts based personal development projects in prisons with Safe Ground, and began the development of TCC. Now based in Spain she is a Senior Consultant with Praxis Consultores.

Max Fyfe

Max is a passionate environmentalist and youth worker with a focus on the planet, inquiry and the creative arts to deepen meaning and inspire purpose - facilitating spaces for reflection, expression and action. Key partners and collaborators include British Council, Goodall Foundation, Spark + Mettle, Wide Horizons, NCS, The Challenge, Future Foundations, The Media Trust, Before I Die Network, Wandsworth Virtual School, London Borough of Newham, HeadStart and many schools, colleges, SEN schools and pupil referral units across London and Bristol.

Naomi Waring

Naomi is a filmmaker, performer and facilitator, with a strong focus on socially driven documentary and participatory film. Her films have screened at national and international film festivals. She uses narrative and story as a platform to unlock creativity and to connect with community in this ever changing, chaotic world. She has worked with Finding Rhythms a charity with focus on music making in prisons, Islington council and is currently facilitating TCC’s first collective project in Walpol park Ealing.

Del Taylor

Del Taylor is an arts practitioner who has worked on a diverse number of collaborative, cross art form projects with a range of participants, both in the UK and Internationally, and she frequently works with Studio3Arts and Polka Theatre. Her work is playful and process driven, with the emphasis on listening to the stories and ideas of participants and the places and spaces they inhabit. Del's work merges elements of multiple art forms including performance, puppetry, visual arts, performance art, design, and site specific response, to collaboratively devise exhibitions, installations and performances.

Film Directors

Arts Consultants

Systems Thinkers

Visual Artists

Poets

Street Performers

Facilitators

Theatre
makers

Dancers

Drama Therapists

Youth Workers

Fund Raisers

We have an extensive combined experience in designing and delivering projects and programmes in the UK and Internationally and share a powerful toolkit of skills, knowledge and experience. Meet the collective...

We’re a group of highly experienced professionals, working across sectors and with different disciplines, connected through a belief that the arts can be transformative

Film Directors

Arts Consultants

Systems Thinkers

Visual Artists

Poets

Street Performers

Facilitators

Theatre makers

Dancers

Drama Therapists

Youth Workers

Fund Raisers

We have an extensive combined experience in designing and delivering projects and programmes in the UK and Internationally and share a powerful toolkit of skills, knowledge and experience. Meet the collective...

Theatre
makers