Our Curators Of Change team
Below our the current members of the team who all carry out different roles. We are actively working on an updated version of the website so please hold tight for further updates and more up to date content.
Chief Pirate
Curators Of Change
Cat
Cat is an enterprising and energetic practitioner running her own business. With more than 20 years’ experience of facilitating organisational and workforce development for a wide range of local, regional and national public sector organisations including, Think Local Act Personal; BBC Sport; ADASS; Disability Rights UK; LGA; CQC and more. Cat is also a national ‘coproduction’ expert, a Pirate and Camerado!
Sam
Sam is a qualified Youth and Community worker with 25 years’ experience within the Public and Voluntary sector and now working as freelance facilitator. Sam is a member of the Social Movement of Camerados and can be found sitting on sofas alongside communities in Public Living Rooms from Norfolk to North America.
Jim
Jim Thomas has been working across social care and health since the mid 1980s. He has always seen partnership working with everybody as an essential part of all that he is involved in. From supporting self advocacy groups with establishing themselves and working out how to get funding, to employing parents to design, develop and deliver training for social workers on how to work better with families, to developing a national qualification for commissioners of social care and health and children’s support - making sure that coproduction was as the heart of the programmes design at every stage. Jim has always worked to enable, empower, facilitate, create, innovate and include people in everything he does.
Nat
I bring my own lived experience and passion for positive change to every project. I'm the co-chair of the "Putting People at the Heart of Care" working group with ADASS in the East of England, this has seen me speak at joint Health & Care challenge events for the East of England for NHS/ADASS. I also spent five years as a Co-production Ambassador for Healthwatch Suffolk, one highlight is when I shared my views at NHSE in Canary Wharf. In addition, I offer over 20 years of expertise in audio, web, video, and media production from my time working in the entertainment industry. I'm a father of two girls, a dog-dad of a husky cross (we walk many miles a week) and partner to Elise.
Kate
My daughter, Maddy, is my inspiration. When she was ten, the White Paper, Valuing People, was published and I had great hopes for her future. Nearly 20 years later, people with learning disabilities still don’t have enough choice and control and are often not included in society. I’m a big fan of Making it Real and 80 + fab I and We statements: stop me and try one!
Sarah
Sarah holds the fort and is responsible for the management and administration of the Curators Of Change.