LiLi K. Bright helps people connect with nature and creativity with climate science training, tree walks, writing workshops, nonviolent communication, repurposed textiles, and 13 years of facilitation experience.

They write ecopoetry and climate fiction about birds and butterflies, and were a writer-in-residence with the London Wildlife Trust.

You can find LiLi wandering green spaces in cities, online at cherrytreewalk.com and @cherrytree_walk on Instagram.

Jane is a somatic practitioner working with social movement groups and co-operatives to grow understanding of how social conditions shape our bodies and how we can embody the kind of world we want to live in. They're also a microbiology nerd and ballet dancer.

Calvin Dillon-Parkin is a personal trainer (and occasional roller skating coach) with first-hand experience of living with a long-term condition and how much exercise can help manage it. But he's also very familiar with how toxic the fitness industry's messaging can be and how society sometimes uses exercise to blame disabled and/or ill people for their own disability and/or illness. Calvin is passionate about inclusive fitness and challenging exclusionary stereotypes and barriers around fitness and movement. He also writes weird stories sometimes.

Dylan Dunnett is a PT with a focus on training the LGBT and neurodiverse communities and has personal/lived experience in both of those areas. They are also a swimming coach and community organiser, with extensive experience in the UK cooperative movement. They love to help people feel welcome in spaces they've previously felt excluded from and build welcoming, friendly and inclusive spaces with an emphasis on body positivity. Their other interests include herbalism, foraging, writing and researching whatever their latest special interest is!

Arron is a cultural worker based in Birmingham. Arron uses creative and cultural practices in community settings to facilitate the social imagination, thinking and scheming on how we might build liberatory practices in the neighbourhood. He is a fitness enthusiast and dabbler in martial arts. 

Jo is a Level 3 personal trainer and exercise on referral practitioner based in the UK. She specialises in working with clients to develop a healthy and sustainable relationship with exercise in either a 1-1 or group setting. Her key interest is in using strength training as a tool to manage mental health conditions and aid recovery from trauma. Jo believes we can all regain autonomy in our lives and develop better relationships with our bodies if we are provided safe and welcoming space. Jo is also the co-founder of the SomaDymanic project which links working with the body and psychoeducation.

Irum is a Level 3 Personal Trainer with a working background in Human Resources and Hospitality in community settings. She truly values being able to empower and encourage others to be the best version of themselves, whilst learning to love all aspects of their being. She believes in small, consistent actions making a difference, and being patient and empathetic with life and people.

Becca Kirkpatrick is a socially-focused, trauma-informed PT and writer based in Birmingham, England, with a 20-year background in union and community organising. Becca owns Big Bag Training and is also a co-founder of We Got to Move training co-operative. Her favourite thing is introducing beginners to the fun and exciting world of strength training. She enjoys powerlifting, calisthenics, caving, allotment farming, sci fi & fantasy, and forest time.

Sam Lowe is a community and union organiser and ESOL tutor from the West Midlands.

With a focus on building leadership, Sam has worked with those experiencing eviction and disrepair to build campaigns to win housing justice. Sam is interested in building relational power in community organisations and sustainable, community-based organising with a focus on building skills and confidence to develop community leadership enabling people to win justice on the issues important to them, in a way that is accessible and enjoyable. In her downtime, she enjoys being out in nature, travelling, writing and live music.

Felipe is passionate about working with food as a tool for bringing people together and strengthening community well-being. He has been involved in various community gardening projects across the city over the last decade. This involved the creation of Mother Gardens, a mutual aid project and network where people share plants, skills and resources. Felipe is also very keen on growing community-based permanent edible landscapes such as fruit and nut orchards, forest gardens and other spaces that leave a legacy for future generations.

His other role and passion is mental health and well-being. For the last 15 years he has worked developing wellbeing programmes, with a focus on supporting marginalised communities, and he’s currently training as a psychotherapist.

NBE FITNESS provides sessions for those who feel marginalised from mainstream community spaces due to their visible or invisible difference. We bring people together to improve their mental and physical wellbeing so they can improve their long term health, feel more energised and have a positive look on their life.

NBE FITNESS runs sessions in community spaces or taking people out into nature to move their bodies, relax, eat food or create crafts such as painting.

Becky is a grassroots housing & homelessness organiser & facilitator. She is an active community organiser in Sheffield and also works with groups who want to develop their organising strategy. Becky is musical, relational & nerdy about liberation. She loves working & being with folks who desire to disrupt oppressive power dynamics.

Olly Armstrong has worked at the intersection of community, class, faith and climate for over two decades. He is currently supporting climate, social and housing justice orgs to connect with working class communities through community organising and workshops across the UK. Olly is passionate about putting power in the hands of the people, and acting together for change.

Hasanain is a decolonial thinker, with particular interest in Anarchism and its relationship with Islam, Nature and indigenous wisdom.

Aside from his community work as a volunteer and then trustee of his local Muslim community, the KSIMC of Birmingham, Hasanain spent many years as an organiser with Citizens UK, and as part of the National Leadership. He subsequently joined "Sponsor Refugee" as a board member and then served as a Director of Basic Income UK.

Hasanain has a background in philosophy and theology from his seminary studies at the Al Mahdi Institute and has subsequently taken interest in decolonial and revolutionary thinkers such as Angela Davis, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire, Murray Bookchin and Malcolm X.

Hasanain has three kids and acts as carer and advocate for his son who has profound special needs. He is also a keen amateur powerlifter.

Eiri joined Right to Remain in April 2022 to take up a newly created post of Director. Eiri has over twenty years experience in the refugee and migration sector, covering a wide-range of roles at the national, European and international levels. In the UK, she previously set up and ran the charity Asylum Support Appeals Project and the coalition, the Detention Forum. She also works as a consultant specialising in strategy, theory of change, advocacy and organisational development and regularly provides advice to foundations.

Stephanie Wong is a community organiser and coach and has won with many others, on issues from citizenship for young people, political elections, disability justice, living wages and housing. She spends most of her time thinking about how we support larger organisations and institutions to develop leadership and organising across the ecosystem to influence lasting transformative change.