Introducing Together Culture CIC’s Community Development Team
Together Culture CIC is delighted to announce the new members of our Community Development Team. Together Culture is more than a co-working space. We’re building a community of people, and the processes to support them in shaping a more inclusive and ecological economy. Central to ensuring that Together Culture remains a vibrant and collaborative environment is our Community Development Team. Comprised of members who volunteer and self-select to serve a rotating two year term, each Community Development Team Member commits to being a leader in deepening the Together Culture values of turning up, collaborating, experimenting, and helping others. They work closely with Community Director, Ellie Breeze, to support the development of our departments of working, caring, sharing, and learning.
Together Culture Community Development Team Members help to ensure inclusive participation in our annual Citizens’ Studio, and guide the analysis of its outcomes so that the focus of Together Culture’s initiatives and resource allocation in the following year represents the ideas that we have co-created together. They encourage members’ annual participation in Living Book activities to joyfully refresh and build on our understanding and application of our values. Finally they advise on the further development and application of Together Culture policies, including safeguarding, informed by our annual membership survey.
The Community Development Team partially repopulates itself each year, inviting applications from the membership at our annual meeting, The State of Together Culture, each January.
If you haven’t met the team at Fitzroy Street or in our online community rooms, please allow me to introduce you to the Together Culture CIC Community Development Team.
CHRIS POINTON, Co-Chair
Member since 2023
Community Development Team Member since 2023
Chris has been the technical co-founder of several internet companies, ranging from multiplayer games to data protection. He now works as a consultant helping tech companies with their people, products and processes. Chris is involved in several voluntary initiatives aimed at accelerating community climate and nature action. He is a Director of The Place-Based Initiative (who run The Great Collaboration community support network) and leads Cambridgeshire Climate Emergency (a network of community climate leaders around the county who provide support, advice and resources for one another). In both roles, Chris advocates for greater use of participative democracy and the co-creation of interventions, so he is very excited to be supporting both at Together Culture.
If Chris had a magic wand, where would TC be in 10 years?
Together Culture will have proven that people can be happier, healthier and more economically and democratically active when supported by processes of self-organisation and co-creation. Governments will shape policies that ensure that Together Culture communities can thrive because that is what their electorate are demanding. Wellbeing of people and planet will have replaced GDP as the measure of economic progress.
ELLEN JONES, Co-Chair
Together Culture Member since March 2024
Community Development Team Member since March 2025
Ellen is a public health practitioner and community development consultant who has spent the past 17 years working alongside communities in the UK and internationally to drive meaningful change. With roots in qualitative research and systems thinking, she supports people to better understand the systems they live and work in, and to shift them. Ellen’s work bridges public health, education, and civil society, and often involves designing participatory processes for learning, collaboration, and strategy. She’s most energised by projects that centre lived experience, build connections, and push at the boundaries of how change is made.
If Ellen had a magic wand, where would TC be in 10 years?
If I had a magic wand, I’d love for Together Culture to feel like an everyday part of people’s lives, a place where people feel welcome to join in, try something new, or share what they know. I’d want participation to feel easy and rewarding, with people of all backgrounds seeing themselves reflected in what we do. It would be normal to collaborate across differences, learn by doing, and co-create with care and curiosity. And I’d want the people making it all happen, facilitators, organisers, members, to feel supported and valued, so the work is sustainable. Together Culture would be a living example of what a kind, creative, and connected community can look like.
SUSANNAH REDHEAD, Safeguarding Advisory Lead
Member since summer 2023
Community Development Team Member since February 2025
Susannah is a clinical psychologist and social impact entrepreneur.
If Susannah had a magic wand, where would TC be in 10 years?
Changing cities around the world towards greater equality and inclusivity, using and building on the framework we’re developing here in Cambridge. And here…being a figurehead collective powerhouse for the wellbeing and social connectedness of Cambridge city residents, that has an impact on the city council and beyond.
RACHEL ANDRE, Citizens’ Studio Analysis Lead
Together Culture Member since 2023
Community Development Team Member since 2023
Rachel is a principal content designer for The Generation Study, an innovative research study that aims to understand if we can improve how we diagnose and treat genetic conditions by looking at the DNA of newborn babies. She has been in content and user experience for more than 25 years across industries including tech, healthcare, retail and lifestyle, and non-profit organisations. Throughout her career, her focus has always been human-centred design, user research, accessibility and inclusivity.
If Rachel had a magic wand, where would TC be in 10 years?
The standard way of life for people in Cambridge (and beyond!). Where people are able to fully access, participate in and contribute to their community in the ways that they want to, that are meaningful to them. I would want community members to experience immense joy and meaning from the connections they make and the work they do, which should not be mutually exclusive.
REEM ASSIL
Together Culture Member since January 2024
Community Development Team Member since March 2025
Reem is the Co-Founder of Mankani Cambridge CIC, a Trustee at the Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum (CECF) and a member of the One Strong Voice coalition. She is also a member of the Community Scrutiny Panel at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Police. She designs, manages, and facilitates leadership programmes in three languages: English, French, and Arabic, with 2000+ hours of facilitation experience globally spanning various sectors and generations. As a mentor with over 15 years of experience and a certified Transformational Coach, Reem is leveraging her skills to drive positive change and growth in individuals and organisations.
If Reem had a magic wand, where would TC be in 10 years?
If I had a magic wand, in 10 years’ time, TC wouldn’t just be a community that accepts and tolerates the most marginalised identities in Cambridge, it would honour, celebrate, and centre them. So they don’t just feel accepted, but truly seen, reflected, represented, and valued.
LADUN OMIDEYI
Together Culture Member since 2023
Community Development Team Member since 2023
Ladun is an engineering manager and former lawyer with a focus on civic technology and delivery. She’s interested in what makes systems work in the real world and how we can design them to be inclusive, resilient, and truly public-serving.
If Ladun had a magic wand, where would TC be in 10 years?
Together Culture will have moved beyond being a project or a network and will have developed into a functioning economic system. In Cambridge, it will have grown large enough to challenge the traditional economy as the place where most people in the city find work, meaning, and mutual support. And it will have inspired many other communities around the world to do the same.
CHRISTOPHER WORSFOLD
Together Culture Member since 2023
Community Development Team Member since 2023
Chris is an environmentally committed, design led Architect who trained at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). He is a registered Architect (ARB) and also Chartered by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Chris has worked for a broad range of internationally award winning practices across and range of sectors.
His interests are underpinned by the steadfast belief that the spaces we live and work in have a profound effect on well being and that the benefits of good design should be available to all.
If Chris had a magic wand, where would TC be in 10 years?
Together culture will be internationally recognised as a touchstone model of how communities and co creation can shape and reshape economic structures and transform the wellbeing of its members.
