Sally has volunteered for years in Bearwood alongside roles in charity and social enterprise leadership, support and grantmaking. In Smethwick she started the successful Bearwood Shuffle community music events, she has co-led two successful Bearwood Street Festivals for 8,000 people and founded community organisation We Are Bearwood. After piloting co-working and consulting on the idea of a hub, she set up Bearwood Community Hub CIC. Prior to lockdown Sally set up ChangeSpaces coworking and venue hire at Holy Trinity Church, Smethwick.

I enjoy working with and helping people. I have worked previously at Brushstrokes as a volunteer refugee & asylum seeker advisor. When I was in Afghanistan I worked as a General Councillor in the Afghan Embassy in Abu Dhabi supporting Afghan citizens with families, passports, business, visas, and other signposting and support for people. Outside of work I really love gardening and growing flowers (In the Summer my house is overflowing with flowers).​

Tash is a local resident of Bearwood and she helps with signposting, supporting people and looking after visitors and volunteers at Wednesday Warm Welcome.

TV Producer turned social entrepreneur - Jen co-founded Crafty Muthas and Bearwood Pantry right here in the ‘wood and was responsible for the regular Bearwood Handmade Fairs and Bearwood Food Festivals. Keen on pursuing ideas with the potential to solve community problems and create positive change, Jen currently freelances in Community Engagement and Social Media Management, helping small businesses, charities and community organisations with their online presence. She’s lived in Bearwood for twenty three years, with her husband, two kids, and more recently, a dog named Boo. 

Lizzie grew up in Bearwood and has spent the past 6 years working in the arts, social enterprise, charitable and transport sectors. She began her career in railway project management but decided to follow a passion for organising community arts events in 2020 producing VERVE Poetry Festival. She believes in the power of the arts to create social change and equity as well as to improve wellbeing.

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Sunitha originally worked in IT in the corporate sector but has spent the last five years supporting community projects, charities and campaigns with Operational and project management support. Outside of her work at Bearwood Community Hub, she is a core member at Regularise where she campaigns and supports undocumented migrants to advocate for themselves and their rights, and a Project Officer on a research project at the University of Birmingham.

Rachel has a wealth of experience in financial administration in the charity and not for profit sector. She is a local mum with a keen eye of detail and a passion for funky socks.