Introducing Together Culture CIC’s Non Executive Director Board
Together Culture CIC is delighted to announce the appointment of our first Non Executive Board of Directors. Together Culture is more than a co-working space. We’re building a community of people (and processes) to shape a more inclusive and ecological economy. This spring we are scaling up our premises in Cambridge and deepening our placemaking partnerships across our city. As we develop new models for building community and culture to take economic action, we aim to explore how Together Culture could expand to other parts of our country and our world.
Our Non Executive team is a group of talented and experienced individuals committed to making a creative contribution to enable Together Culture to reach its full potential. They’ll provide constructive challenges to the executive team on strategy, performance, and our allocation of resources as they help us to grow our network.
Every member of our Non Executive team is also a member of Together Culture Cambridge. We are deeply grateful to each of them for sharing their talents, skills, experience and for accepting fiduciary responsibility for the organisation as they support oversight of our governance. What an admirable commitment to everyone in the Together Culture community.
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 Non Executive Board of Directors.
HANNAH BOWMAN: Cornwall, England
A co-founder of Together Culture CIC, Hannah works primarily with non-profit, charitable and social enterprise organisations to develop and lead strategy and implementation around governance, finance and operations. Hannah oversees fiscal design for non-profits, with a focus on developing long-term regenerative functioning; exploring and utilising models which can operate outside of dependency and scarcity based paradigms of financial flows, sparking interdisciplinary and creative collaboration. She has also led on safeguarding for various organisations for a number of years, and leads tailored training for organisations working frontline in communities. Hannah works as a consultant on policy and implementation for a range of organisations, and has worked with diverse stakeholders and collaborators, from farmers to high-risk women and young people, and from art galleries to universities.
When asked what she would do for Together Culture if she held a magic wand, Hannah said:
If I held a magic wand, I’d have the processes around localised bottom-up economics self organising and thriving in a fully regenerative way in the next 10 years; this would see people making dignified, viable and enjoyable livelihoods from embodying and leading new systems for their communities. The dream would for this way of living and working to be fully normalised and culturally expected - not just in Cambridge but UK-wide.
MARK BUCCELLA: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mark is a design strategist, researcher, and facilitator who enables teams to solve complex challenges through human-centered approaches. With over 20 years of experience, Mark specializes in co-creation methodologies that bring diverse stakeholders together to develop shared visions and actionable strategies. He has led numerous research projects to identify insights to drive innovation, such as field research with electric utility workers, design and management of pilot programs for a national fitness chain, and facilitation of experience mapping sessions with healthcare providers. Mark excels at analyzing research insights to inform concept development and at creating collaborative environments where stakeholders can contribute to meaningful outcomes. His proven ability to navigate complex organizational needs and adapt to new domains and contexts while maintaining focus on practical, equitable solutions has transformed projects across healthcare, education, financial services, and utilities sectors.
When asked what he would do for Together Culture if he held a magic wand, Mark said:
If I had a magic wand, in 10 years Together Culture would be the model for how communities solve complex challenges. We'd create a network where diverse voices are essential to shaping solutions, where co-creation is the default approach to solving community challenges, and where working together across differences is valued as much as outcomes.
ELLIE BREEZE: Cambridge, England
A co-founder of Together Culture CIC, Ellie also serves as the Community Director of Together Culture Cambridge. Ellie is a working artist with nearly a decade of experience in the arts and cultural sector, beginning her career at Arts Council England and going on to hold roles at Rowan, an arts charity for adults with learning disabilities, and ActionSpace, an artist development agency. She completed Clore’s Emerging Leaders course in 2022, deepening her leadership practice and commitment to inclusive cultural change. She also co-founded the Cambridge-based Motion Sickness Project Space in 2019, which showcased emerging artists from Cambridge and around the UK through a series of exhibitions and a vibrant programme of events until its closure in 2022. As Community Director and co-founder of Together Culture, Ellie is part of the executive team working to shape a membership offer aligned with the organisation’s Theory of Change, supporting members to create meaningful, lasting impact.
When asked what she would do for Together Culture if she held a magic wand, Ellie said:
If I had a magic wand, in ten years I'd want Together Culture CIC to have created a global movement of members who are contributing to regenerative enterprises, feel empowered to create change, and care for each other. In other words, a renewed sense of hope for the future!
LUCY GONZALEZ: Cambridge, England
Lucy has been a project and programme manager and director in the tech, academic, and non-for-profit sectors in the UK for the last 15 years, at organisations like the School for Social Entrepreneurs, the British Antarctic Survey, Anglia Ruskin University, Arm, and Google DeepMind. She is a qualified career and leadership coach and holds degrees in Philosophy, History, and Sociology. Before accidentally starting a career in operations and research management, she was a language teacher, newspaper columnist, translator, interpreter, and photographer, sometimes all at the same time.
When asked what she would do for Together Culture if she held a magic wand, Lucy said:
I would rewire the local economy to be community-driven and run on trust and care. In 10 years, with my magic wand, Together Culture will make it normal for neighbours to co-own rehearsal spaces, tool libraries, and storytelling nights. People will swap skills just as we swap recipes, and sharing will be a key value. Out of Together Culture will come systems where wellbeing is the bottom line, where success looks like time to rest, space to create, and enough to go around.
KIM HENDLER: Copenhagen, Denmark
Kim is an independent consultant to purpose-led leaders and initiatives around the world that focus on addressing climate and biodiversity crises as well as building more resilient and regenerative economies. Kim leverages her experience in executive and leadership roles to support organizational design, strategic planning, business development and philanthropy to maximize impact. She combines her consulting work with mentoring, advisory and non-executive board roles.
When asked what she would do for Together Culture if she held a magic wand, Kim said:
In 10 years’ time, Together Culture CIC is an embedded community of changemakers that has created a resilient and regenerative local economy, and the approach has been adapted and adopted in several communities throughout the UK and beyond.
FAYE McDONOUGH: Cambridge, England
Faye is a financial services leader with over two decades of experience managing lending and investment portfolios of up to £300 million. She is passionate about making financial knowledge accessible to businesses and charities creating social impact and continues this work in her Board career focused on community organisations in Cambridge, as Non-Executive Director at Together Culture CIC and Trustee of Abbey People.
A dedicated professional, Faye holds an accredited leadership coaching certification, a distinction in The Chartered Banker's Diploma in Lending Skills, and is an alumna of Good Finance's Investment Committees of the Future programme. She completed her BA in European Studies at the University of Manchester.
When asked what she would do for Together Culture if she held a magic wand, Faye said:
In 10 years, with the wave of a magic wand, Together Culture will have built a powerful network of thriving businesses spreading across Cambridge and beyond. These organisations will demonstrate that inclusion and ecological responsibility aren't just the right thing to do - they're genuine competitive advantages. Reshaping how we think about purpose, vision and finance as a force for good in entrepreneurship along the way.
HEATHER ANNE THOMAS: Cambridge, England
Heather is the founder of Together Culture. After earning her MBA at Copenhagen Business School, she built a social enterprise in Denmark inspired by the Nordic Food Movement to enable a community of foreigners and curious locals to develop new relationships with one another and the natural world. She has two decades of experience researching, shaping, and delivering business development strategies across the social enterprise and charitable sectors working in agroecology, youth services, social inclusion, and higher education. She started her career working development for arts organisations on both sides of the Atlantic including Tate, The Royal Academy of Arts, and Boston Ballet. Her first ‘proper job’ was at Thompson Island Outward Bound, a foundational experience that seeded her career commitment to finding ways to do hard things.
When asked what she would do for Together Culture if she held a magic wand, Heather said:
If I had a magic wand, in 10 years’ time, Together Culture would have made cultural exploration and adaptation (how we identify as a community, make meaning, and live our values) where society goes first to address ‘wicked and sticky’ problems. We’ll be sharing a fine-tuned process for co-design to support more people to meaningfully participate as citizens in the designing of their economies and making impactful decisions. In 10 years time, I hope folks understand that community is MUCH more than geographic proximity. I see Together Culture as having developed dozens of case studies that demonstrate how a framework that fosters accountability and commitment can enable us all to build the trust in ourselves and in one another to do hard things, well.
