Rachel has overall strategic responsibility for the design and successful delivery of the Big Local programme. This includes the effective maintenance of Local Trust’s finance, business planning and performance management functions; and the management of other resources needed to ensure Local Trust is able to deliver its business.

Previously, Rachel worked as a consultant and researcher at Shared Intelligence, where she worked on neighbourhood renewal, community engagement, and social housing projects. At the same time, she was also a programme manager for the National Association for Neighbourhood Management, where she designed and delivered learning and networking programmes.

Daniel has published work on industrial strategy, workers’ rights and productivity growth; regional inequalities and the politics of devolution; and public services and trust in government. Before CPP Dan was Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor of South Yorkshire and was a researcher at Mossavar-Rahmani Centre for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has held several government positions, working on devolution and place-based industrial policy as a Civil Servant.

Jeanette Harold is a 40-year experienced Community Development Practitioner and Manager who re-branded and re-shaped Sunderland Community Empowerment Network, developed and managed Sure Start Programmes in Cumbria and the Northeast, and contributed to the reshaping of Carlisle City Council Community Development Service. Jeanette was an area representative and advisor from the inception of the Big Local programme, helping local people get involved and have their voices heard. She has also worked across doubly disadvantaged communities including in Cumbria, Nottinghamshire, and the North East. She is the Director of CONTiNUUM CIC, a social enterprise founded to address gaps in the provision of services in the VSCE sector and to help public sector bodies and charities promote community wellbeing in their work.

Jay is the Regional Secretary for the TUC in the North West, and has been in post since late 2021. Prior to this, Jay worked in the North West on policy and campaigns, supporting the work of the TUC and affiliated unions.

As Regional Secretary, Jay oversees the work of the TUC across the North West, representing over 800,000 workers from 48 TUC affiliates.

This includes supporting unions taking industrial action, co-ordinating campaigns and wider work and representing the TUC and affiliates on various bodies, including Employment Charters in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region, and wider work on the economy and skills. Ongoing priorities include ensuring the New Deal for Workers is enacted and working with local decision makers to spread good work and improve conditions.

Sarah is an associate professor in the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is also a chartered psychologist and in her practitioner career, she led and worked across a range of applied research and consultancy projects on fair treatment, wellbeing and stress at work.

Her research and teaching interests span a number of work streams concerned with optimising decent work and strengthening employee health and well-being. She has led the evaluation of the Greater Manchester Good Employment charter and works with other UK localities to share this learning. Other recent research projects include stress, emotions and well-being in alternative and marginalising types of employment; job quality and innovation in social care work; stigmatisation and identity challenges at work; and the management of mental health at work.