He is highly experienced in community development and providing organising, training, evaluation consultancy and mentoring services for community, voluntary and statutory organisations. He has overall responsibility for strategic and network development and operations within RE:generate and is developing an exciting and innovative Social Enterprise that is designed to engage over 100,000 people at the grass roots of our communities in the next 5 years. Stephen has been short listed for an “Upstarts Award” as a Social Enterprise champion which is awarded by the New Statesman in association with Co-operative Bank and Co-operative Action.