Our Aims

• We want to help you to succeed - your success is our success, so we will be fully on board and committed to achieving what you have set out as required.

• We want to improve the lives of others - we stand against injustice and love our community - and everyone in it, so anything that we can do to play a small part in helping to improve someone’s experience, then we’re in!

• We want to save you time and energy - we know how many multiple and competing pressures there are in running services, departments or companies, including managing and recruiting staff, meeting deadlines, and the demands of commissioners or leaders in an ever-evolving environment, having the time to write bids, reports or be able to genuinely plan ahead and evidence this.

• We want to provide a high quality, responsive, and transparent service which can function without some of the constraints and barriers often experienced in statutory or corporate organisations.

• We ultimately want to contribute to the improvement of service delivery, the experience for those accessing your services, and to the overall functioning of our communities.

• We want to be ‘by your side’, achieve positive outcomes with you, develop a trusting and fruitful working relationship with you, and bring some hope and joy to the experience in the process.

Our Collective

Meet the super-team

Sarah Pengelly

Areas of knowledge and experience: Project Management, project start-ups, pilot project delivery, staff management and development, stakeholder relationships, fundraising and bid writing, strategy and policy development, training, group supervision, and life coaching.

Career highlights: The setting up and management of two street outreach services, a homeless hostel, a community centre, three crisis mental health drop in services, and a holiday programme for children. Multiple successful grant funding outcomes. Successful management of TUPE processes. Involvement in creating national policies, best practice sector-specific guidance and training programmes. The winning and nomination of multiple work-related awards.

Hobbies and interests: Watching documentaries, listening to podcasts, walking, travelling, crafting, live music, festivals and comedy.

Julie Bose

Areas of knowledge and experience: Confidence building in individuals through highlighting transferable skills: revealing those skills whether occupational, vocational, leisure or personal for the benefit of the individual and the community. Collaborative conversations around training, volunteering, personal development and employment opportunities. Experienced in tailored support across a diverse range of business and financial acumen for individuals and community groups. Identifying and clarifying the holistic operational impact of wellbeing, welfare, benefits, grants, legislative and procedural frameworks.

Career highlights: Teaching and training in the community, Employability work with all ages, Creating CV's that make you feel good and proud, Sustaining relationships with individuals' progress over the many years in Torbay. Launching and guiding individuals and groups on their journeys whether as sole trading entrepreneurs to active community groups and to registered trading status with HMRC, Companies House or Charity Commission.

Hobbies and interests: Walking ShihTzu companion called Yogi, Badminton, Cycling, Sea swimming, Reading from comedy observational fiction (Jonas Jonasson to Ben Elton) to dark psychological thrillers, Conversations from A-Z depending on shared interests with family, friends and acquaintances - music, food, cooking, health, current affairs.

Dr Davina Cull

Areas of knowledge and experience: An extensive career working in and around the Criminal Justice System for the last twenty-five years. Previous roles include operational, strategic, commissioning and senior / executive leadership and management in the voluntary and community and statutory sector, as well as within enterprise and working at a local, regional and national level in both paid and voluntary roles. Skilled in professional development, coaching and teaching, and has helped individuals and organisations go from good to great by using facilitation skills which include action learning, cultural assessments/audits and service design/re-design. An academic skill set which includes conducting research, presenting research at academic conferences and experience in publishing work and resources. Operational skills and expertise, with academic and ethical rigor, to support and enable organisations who want to implement best practice which is both co-designed and that works.

Career highlights: Transforming a charity as Chief Executive Officer to improve capacity, efficiency and responsiveness to survivors of rape and sexual violence. Co-designing a restorative justice project with a community of stakeholders, which became through successful tendering because a large geographical service. Commissioning victim care and reducing re-offending services with a £9m budget. Trustee of a national campaigning charity. Working in a multi-agency team to support desistance from offending.

Hobbies and interests: Wild swimming, reading, running, travelling, live music

Jonathan Oliverio

Areas of knowledge and experience: Youth work practice, youth engagement, place-based project development, social enterprise start-up, business planning, bid writing, volunteer management, faith-based project development, active travel, employee training and development.

Career highlights: Setting up and establishing a county-wide youth service; working with communities, partners and young people to develop youth services in rural areas - services included; street-based provision, centre based activities, a pop-up skate park, collaboration with leisure centres to provide healthy activities. Setting up a cycle based social enterprise delivering bicycle recycling and repair workshops, national standard cycle instructing and schools based work.

Hobbies and interests: Cycling, renovating vintage bicycles, playing the piano and church organ.

Brendon Pollard

Areas of knowledge and experience: Knowledge, Understanding and Application in Homelessness, Substance Use/Misuse/Addiction, Mental Health and Criminal Justice. Experience of working alongside Young People, adults with a forensic history, Street Homeless individuals and groups, Drug and/or Alcohol dependant Adults and Young People. Peer Support and Lived Experience.

Career highlights: Years of accommodating and working with homeless adults, leading on street outreach and multi-agency safeguarding activities, setting up a recovery initiative for adults. Winning an Award for Bay6 Hospital Discharge Facilitation & Winning the Employee of the Year. Nominated for Team of the Year 2020 for the Nursing Times Awards, HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021 Finalist, and The National Positive Practice Awards in Mental Health 2021 Winner with the NHS Devon Community Forensic Team. Community Rehabilitation Project Coordinator

Hobbies and interests: I'm a big fan of most sports, and an avid supporter of both Liverpool FC and Torquay United FC, where I attend when I can. I love cycling, however, I could do with getting out on my gravel bike a bit more often. I did have the pleasure of attending Le Tour de France in 2023, one off the bucket list!
Music is a big passion, most styles, preferably House though, and AC/DC always tick the box. I'm a strong advocate for social justice, also learning from life experience.

Specialist Advisors:

There are also 'Specialist Advisors' as part of the collective, who have experience in Education, Trauma-informed teaching practices, Fostering, Youth Engagement, Data Analytics, Benchmarking, Public Health, and working with children with additional needs. They will advise on relevant pieces of work, but will not lead on the operational delivery.