Laura Ford, Founder & Director
Laura is a hands on Sustainability Advisor and Founder of Circulo Community Interest Company. Through community projects, award-winning Plastic Free Peckham, and Sustainable Peckham, she works with businesses, communities and local Councils towards a zero-waste future, advancing sustainability goals and creating community networks.
With a background in CSR and sustainability marketing, Laura’s recent focus has been to make the circular economy accessible to small businesses, developing achievable zero-waste solutions. She is a graduate of Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership and is Sustainability Director at vegan toiletries brand Faith In Nature where she works closely with the brand’s Nature Guardian; a Director at Board level giving Nature role in business governance.
Cheryl Clarke, Director
Cheryl started her career in commercial media in the early 1990s, working in the TV and technology sectors. She is one of the founding directors of Mushroom Media Ltd, a media specialist public relations and sustainability consultancy established in 1999.
Over the past fifteen years Cheryl’s passion for exploring, defining and developing sustainability for the TV and media sectors has steered the consultancy to offer a range of support and services to allow companies to assess and work to improve their social and environmental impacts. This work has in turn led to a sustainable leadership development masters at the University of Cumbria, extending these skills into the local business community.
Shane Carey, Social Impact Consultant
Based in London, Shane specialises in consultancy, leadership and development projects that deliver systemic change and measurable social impact across the UK. Over a 30-year career, Shane has led award-winning social-enterprise initiatives focused on youth engagement, education and mental-health innovation.
Shane founded Reprezent in 2008, a pioneering youth-led platform that has trained more than 8,000 young people, with around 80% progressing into higher education or employment. Having founded the NHS-backed On The Level programme, Shane scaled this across England and won the 2021 HSJ Mental Health Innovation of the Year Award. Shane has secured approximately £6 million in funding, and built partnerships with organisations including the BBC, NHS, Apple and Nike.