We enjoy working with you to uncover the key issues you're facing, whether that's about the future management of public parks, the best way to answer a tricky research question or how to organise your group. We are agnostic about different solutions and believe there are many ways of creating a future where land is used for common good.
As a social enterprise, any surplus we make is reinvested in our mission to reimagine the land system. We are building Shared Assets as a self-managing and mutually supportive organisation, where each team member has substantial autonomy. We are a 4-day week organisation and our baseline salary is above London Living Wage.
We are a friendly team, distributed around the UK. We have a broad range of skills, experience and aptitudes.
I coordinate Shared Assets’ advisory and consultancy work, helping communities, landowners, and local authorities to develop sustainable and equitable approaches to land management. My work focuses on supporting groups and organisations to develop strong governance models, business plans, and partnerships that bring shared social, environmental, and economic benefits from land use.
I have a background in low-impact development spanning between planning, housing, small-scale agriculture and environmental sustainability. I’m passionate about helping people and communities gain the agency to create thriving, resilient places that can adapt and thrive in an increasingly uncertain world.
As a Shared Assets Associate I will be working on a number of projects concerned with who owns and stewards land, how land access can be shared, and working alongside those most marginalised from the land to build power to transform the land system in England.
For the last ten years, I have worked as a facilitator with social movements and as a participatory action researcher looking at the role of emotions when organising on racial justice in the land justice movement. I bring these facilitation and research skills to my work with Shared Assets.
Land is at the root of struggles for dignity, freedom, community, spirit, belonging and the foundation of the material conditions we all need to thrive. You can get in touch with me at freddie@sharedassets.org.uk.
I realised how important land is to transform how we live, and for justice, when I was studying social movements. Since then, I’ve been learning about food sovereignty and anti-austerity movements through studies, land based initiatives, local and regional activism, and gatherings in the UK and Europe. I’ve worked on grassroots action, community development and network facilitation in my previous jobs and I get a lot of energy from being a part of collaborative projects, and from working with passionate people. I’m currently an organiser for the South East region with the Land Workers Alliance.
When I coordinated a participatory action research project using film, it made me realise there’s so much more to organising than collective action, and it got me interested in experimenting with different methodologies and tools for equitable participation, just organisational culture, network building, participatory democracy, and facilitating enabling processes. Shared Assets is a place where creative ideas and interconnectedness are encouraged, so I feel I’ve landed in the right place to keep learning with others!
We are building Shared Assets as a different kind of organisation, with aspirations to grow over the next few years. Find out more about working with us and check if we have any vacancies.
Ben is a farmer who lives in Sussex. He's part of a community farm producing meat, fruit and vegetables for hyper-local distribution; and works at a regenerative farm nearby.
Before farming Ben worked for 15 years producing theatre, film and music. Most recently he was executive director of Improbable, whose work includes Philip Glass’ operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera House, and My Neighbour Totoro with the RSC / Barbican. Ben is also a facilitator specialising in Open Space and non-hierarchical organisation; a guest teacher in anthropology at UCL; a consultant for arts and environmental organisations; a campaign manager for the Green Party; and a trustee of the CLA Charitable Trust, the grant-giving arm of the Country Land & Business Association.
Louise is constantly exploring what it means to live change. She’s a loyal friend, partner, mother and curious human who loves adventure. Louise play multiple roles in different parts of the change ecosystem. and see’s herself as a changemaker, facilitator, systems change designer and process doula.
She has a part time role in a philanthropic foundation, has cofounded The Decelerator and is constantly pollinating and connecting between people and spaces.
Kate is a creative social and community enterprise consultant with over 15 years’ experience helping local authorities and communities collaborate in stewardship of their environments and neighbourhoods.
After working as our Co-Director for 10 years, Kate is now working with us as a board member. She is also currently launching the Digital Commons Cooperative, a platform providing mapping and data tools to community organisations building a more regenerative world.
Simon is a chartered town planner who holds a Doctorate in planning law. He has over a decade of experience in both case and policy work relating to land use for agroecology, sustainable forestry and travelling people. He has also written a number of guides on these subjects in England, Wales and Scotland. He has provided expert evidence in the higher courts and has made a number of appearances at Local Plan inquiries.
Julia is a freelance consultant with 20 years experience working in the non-profit and social enterprise sector, including roles as a CEO, NED and Trustee. She founded her consultancy practice, Pragmatic Radicals, as a place for people and organisations who want to nurture and transform systems, structures and teams.
She has a passion for transformational governance and has worked with organisations to develop, diversify and strengthen their Boards, shift power dynamics, and embed distributed leadership models.
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