Staff

Peter Holbrook | Chief Executive

Peter is hungry for social justice and believes that social enterprise provides one of our very best hopes. Prior to joining SEUK, Peter was founding CEO of Sunlight Development Trust where he established a network of award winning social enterprises including event catering, community radio and property management to fund the services.

He's a member of the Government’s employee engagement taskforce, Chair of the Social Enterprise World Forum, and a board member of Big Society Trust overseeing the delivery of Big Society Capital. Peter has previously worked for Oxfam, Greenpeace, Marks & Spencer and Body Shop International.

peter.holbrook@socialenterprise.org.uk | @peteholbrook | 020 3589 4947

Leanne Cripps | PA to Chief Executive

Leanne provides Personal Assistant support to Peter Holbrook and the other members of the Senior Leadership Team. She also leads on Governance support for Board and Council meetings and elections. And if that’s not enough, given how busy Peter’s diary is, Leanne provides office management for the organisation. The place would grind to a halt without Leanne here.

leanne.cripps@socialenterprise.org.uk | 020 3589 4947

Marie Magimay | Director of Finance & Corporate Resources

As well as working at SEUK, Marie works one day a week (Thursdays) for Campaign for Learning as their Finance Director. Marie has held previous roles at Kids City, RedR, Wandsworth Womens Aid, Stonewall and WaterAid.

marie.magimay@socialenterprise.org.uk | 020 3589 4961

Celia Richardson | Director of Communications and Policy 

Celia spent sixteen years in the not-for-profit sector before moving into social enterprise. Her experience spans workign with some of the UK’s biggest campaigning charities to small community groups. Her areas of specialism are brand development, stakeholder engagement and media.

Celia has twice been named among the most influential 1% of the UK’s PR industry, thanks to some great teams she has led. In 2012 her team at SEUK won the Third Sector Big Impact Award for its campaign to support the Public Services (Social Value) Act. Celia has attended Ashridge Business School. 

celia.richardson@socialenterprise.org.uk

Olof Jonsdottir | Policy & Public Affairs Manager

Ólöf specialises in public services policy and leads SEUK’s political work, including managing our political campaigns and the Secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Enterprise. 

Ólöf is a trustee of MySI, a charity that helps young people to set up their own social enterprises, and is also very proud to play in her local brass band, Regent Brass.

Ólöf has MAs in International Relations and French from St. Andrews and King’s College London.

olof.jonsdottir@socialenterprise.org.uk | @Olof_J | 020 3589 4953 

Charlotte Chung | Policy & Research Officer

Charlotte works to engage social enterprises with the Government's business growth and green agenda, and is the policy lead on our Social Investment and Finance Programme. 

Charlotte coordinates our Social Investment Forum, working on a range of issues including fair tax incentives for social investors and supporting social enterprises to access finance. She is also currently working on SE UK's flagship piece of research the State of Social Enterprise Survey 2013.

With a background in post-conflict recovery and development she strongly believes in business as a vehicle to rebuild economies, communities and trust in working together.

charlotte.chung@socialenterprise.org.uk | 020 3589 4954 |  @CharlotteChung_

Nancy Towers | Programmes Officer

Nancy's background is in project management and community development in health and social care for the charity sector - this has included running dragon’s den style events with Foundation Trust Hospitals, getting stuck in a lift dressed as a red pepper and establishing a successful mentoring scheme to support young people recovering from mental illness.

Now converted to the social enterprise model, Nancy is interested in the changing developments in health and works on the Building Health Partnerships commissioning programme, which aims to improve people’s access to health care through better local health commissioning.

#buysocial Nancy suggests Rubies in the Rubble Pear and Walnut Chutney. 

nancy.towers@socialenterprise.org.uk | 020 3589 4950

Fran Gorman | Head of Media & Communications

Fran looks after press, web and marketing. Get in touch if you’re a journalist after a story or a social enterprise with a story to tell. Interested in collaborating with others to raise awareness of social enterprise through engaging and simple campaigns.

Fran has more than ten years experience working in PR and Comms in the charity and private sectors with organisations including the Mental Health Foundation, Nuffield Hospitals, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Land Rover and Revlon.

fran.gorman@socialenterprise.org.uk | 020 3589 4949 | 07967 586 489

Sam Simmons | Media & Communications Officer

Sam works as part of our busy comms team, shouting about social enterprise in the media and from any online platform he can get his hands on. Sam comes from the charity world, working on global campaigns for a range of humanitarian organisations.

He has BA in International Relations.

Right now, he’s interested in consumer spending habits and getting more people to buy from social enterprises.

Vive la #buysocial revolution!

sam.simmons@socialenterprise.org.uk | 020 3589 4951 | 07742 782 673 

Temi Odesanya | Membership Officer

Temi looks after all of our lovely members, supporting them and making sure they're at the heart of SEUK's work. Temi is well experienced in all things social enterprise having previously worked at coworking space Matthews Yard and Social Firms UK, and currently undertaking an MA in Social Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths College.

Temi has BSc in Politics and International Relations.

#buysocial Temi suggests Bikeworks and Brighter Future Workshop.

temi.odesanya@socialenterprise.org.uk | @temiodear | 020 3589 4948

Nick Temple | Director of Business & Enterprise

Before joining SEUK, Nick was working as an independent consultant with a organisations including UnLtd, Skills Third Sector, The Guardian, Venture Partnership Foundation, Stepping Out, British Council and the London School of Economics.

Nick also co-founded and helped run POPse!, the world’s first pop-up social enterprise think-tank, and is on the board of the SROI Network.

Nick was previously the Director of Policy & Communications at the School for Social Entrepreneurs. 

nick.temple@socialenterprise.org.uk | @nicktemple1 | 020 3589 4955 | 07968 810 716

Craig Carey | Head of Operations

Craig manages a range of programmes, projects and events at SEUK, and also works with partners to secure the best deals on business support for our members.

Craig has over 10 years experience providing business advice, using the best of business to help charities, social enterprises and NGOs build their capacity to help their organisations grow and be sustainable.

Craig is chair of MySI, a charity that works with young people to help them develop their ideas to set up social enterprises within their communities. 

Craig has an MBA and degree in Economics. 

craig.carey@socialenterprise.org.uk | 020 3589 4956

Charlie Wigglesworth | Head of Business Development

Charlie is responsible for managing and growing SEUK’s relationships with corporate partners, helping find sponsors for events and publications, and building closer links between social enterprises and the wider private sector to create real social value. He's also the first port of call for anyone interested in finding out more about SEUK’s consultancy work. 

Charlie has six years experience working with clients across the public, private and third sectors delivering events, training and consultancy on public policy issues. He has extensive experience of business development and account management, developing bespoke packages for a wide variety of clients from large multinationals to small charities. 

Charlie has an MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford.

charlie.wigglesworth@socialenterprise.org.uk | 020 3589 4952

Yvette Cook | Operations Officer

Yvette works as part the Business & Enterprise team, supporting the delivery of SEUK’s projects, programmes, events, training, support and consultancy.

Yvette loves working in the inspiring social enterprise sector and with all the amazing people in the movement. Yvette is currently volunteering with the social enterprise, Brigade, which shares SEUK's home - The Fire Station. She also lives in London with social enterprise Dot Dot Dot Property Guardians.

Yvette has a BA in History from the University of Sussex.