I was a member of the founding committee for Nottingham Speakers’ Corner, and remain the main contact for the project in King Street. Between 2010 – 2015 I served as a Trustee and Director, and returned as Chair in 2018. My role has been to oversee a review of the charity, and work with my fellow Trustees to plan for a sustainable future.

My professional life is in public relations, public affairs and corporate communications. I enjoy making speeches, and writing speeches for others. The aim of Speakers’ Corner Trust appeals to the radical and the campaigner in me. Feelings that get even stronger with age!

Speakers’ Corner Trust celebrates and promotes this freedom around the country and even beyond. It is this spirit that attracted me to the charity where I have served as a Trustee and Director since 2018.

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, I have worked in investment banking and fund management. I provide a wise eye over the financial affairs of the charity. Voluntary work as a Trustee makes me feel good!

I have been a Speakers' Corner Trust director and trustee since 2018. I am a community activist, passionate about fairness and equality and organiser of the ‘We Are Superwoman’ women empowerment conferences which were held annually from 2015-2018. I am a speaker, writer and project manager currently working for the Croydon BME Forum.

Rosie Beacon is a senior policy analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. She specialises in technology and public policy, and has previously conducted analysis on how the nature of democracy and government is changing because of the technological revolution. As a result of this, she is particularly interested in how to foster constructive civic engagement in social media driven democracies. At Speaker’s Corner Trust, she co-ordinates the online public debates on pertinent political, social and cultural topics.

I am Marta, I am Italian, and I work at the University of Leicester. With a degree in Psychology and a strong interest in societal issues such as human rights, freedom of speech, and gender equality, I joined the Speakers’ Corner Trust as a Trustee in January 2022 after working with them as a research assistant on a project addressing the effects of COVID-19 on local democracy. As a Junior Trustee, I aim to provide links to academic stakeholders and support in grant writing and outreach activities.

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