Breaks & Joins Podcast
Series 3, Episode 8: Yvonne Field & Immy Kaur
Yvonne Field is a serial social entrepreneur and change agent who has spent more than four decades working with grassroots organisations, front line staff, senior managers and policy makers in local, national and international government and civil society organisations.
Yvonne has worked across more than 20 European countries, the English-speaking Caribbean region, Asia and South Africa. She established and grew a management consultancy and training company for 15 years advising the UK government and regional governments on the development of Black and racially minoritised communities and women’s enterprise.
Yvonne also spent more than 10 years in academia (Goldsmiths, University of London).
In 2014, she established the Ubele Initiative (The Future), a national social enterprise which supports Black and raciallyminoritised communities to develop sustainable communities through intergenerational leadership, community space development, enterprise and social action.
She is a Director of Wolves Lane Centre; a Churchill Fellow, (2012) and a member of the London’s Mayor’s Advisory group on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Yvonne was recognised as a national Pandemic Pioneer in 2021 due to her contribution during Covid.
Throughout her decade-long career, Immy has focused on convening and building community, the role of citizens in radical systemic change, and how we together create more democratic, distributed, open source social and civic infrastructure. Through this work she has discovered much about economic justice and broader injustices, the pivotal role of land and social/civic infrastructure in neighbourhoods, and the value extracted from communities through our broken investment models. It’s an ongoing journey of discovery, emergence and learning together. Immy is a Co - Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE. CIVIC SQUARE is a public square, neighbourhood lab, and creative + participatory platform focused on regenerative civic and social infrastructure within neighbourhoods. Immy is part of a creative and dynamic leadership team who work alongside the local neighbourhood, to offer a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future. She is also an active member of Project 00. Immy is part of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab Advisory Team, a Birmingham Hippodrome Trustee and also sits on the National Lottery Community Fund Advisory Board. Immy was a founding director of Impact Hub Birmingham, which was open between 2015 - 2019. Impact Hub Birmingham was on a mission to help build a fairer more equal and just city, through people place and open movements. On a voluntary basis, Immy also led and ran TEDxBRUM between 2012 and 2017. Immy’s work has been recognised with a series of notable honours and awards. In 2018, Impact Hub Birmingham was named a NESTA New Radical. For her services to the city of Birmingham, Aston University’s School of Life & Heath Sciences granted Immy an Honorary Doctorate in 2019. And in 2020, Immy was awarded a prestigious Ashoka Fellowship.
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Yvonne Field is a serial social entrepreneur and change agent who has spent more than four decades working with grassroots organisations, front line staff, senior managers and policy makers in local, national and international government and civil society organisations.
Yvonne has worked across more than 20 European countries, the English-speaking Caribbean region, Asia and South Africa. She established and grew a management consultancy and training company for 15 years advising the UK government and regional governments on the development of Black and racially minoritised communities and women’s enterprise.
Yvonne also spent more than 10 years in academia (Goldsmiths, University of London).
In 2014, she established the Ubele Initiative (The Future), a national social enterprise which supports Black and raciallyminoritised communities to develop sustainable communities through intergenerational leadership, community space development, enterprise and social action.
She is a Director of Wolves Lane Centre; a Churchill Fellow, (2012) and a member of the London’s Mayor’s Advisory group on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Yvonne was recognised as a national Pandemic Pioneer in 2021 due to her contribution during Covid.
Throughout her decade-long career, Immy has focused on convening and building community, the role of citizens in radical systemic change, and how we together create more democratic, distributed, open source social and civic infrastructure. Through this work she has discovered much about economic justice and broader injustices, the pivotal role of land and social/civic infrastructure in neighbourhoods, and the value extracted from communities through our broken investment models. It’s an ongoing journey of discovery, emergence and learning together. Immy is a Co - Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE. CIVIC SQUARE is a public square, neighbourhood lab, and creative + participatory platform focused on regenerative civic and social infrastructure within neighbourhoods. Immy is part of a creative and dynamic leadership team who work alongside the local neighbourhood, to offer a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future. She is also an active member of Project 00. Immy is part of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab Advisory Team, a Birmingham Hippodrome Trustee and also sits on the National Lottery Community Fund Advisory Board. Immy was a founding director of Impact Hub Birmingham, which was open between 2015 - 2019. Impact Hub Birmingham was on a mission to help build a fairer more equal and just city, through people place and open movements. On a voluntary basis, Immy also led and ran TEDxBRUM between 2012 and 2017. Immy’s work has been recognised with a series of notable honours and awards. In 2018, Impact Hub Birmingham was named a NESTA New Radical. For her services to the city of Birmingham, Aston University’s School of Life & Heath Sciences granted Immy an Honorary Doctorate in 2019. And in 2020, Immy was awarded a prestigious Ashoka Fellowship.
https://twitter.com/CIVIC_SQUARE
https://civicsquare.cc/
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