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Stronger Things 2021 Speakers

Headline Speakers
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Full list of Speakers

  • Vidhya Alakeson – Chief Executive of Power to Change, an independent trust established in 2015 to support and grow community-led businesses across England.
  • Andy Burnham – Metro Mayor for Greater Manchester
  • Jaiden Corfield – young trustee, Rekindle School
  • Danny Dorling – Halford Mackinder professor of human geography at Oxford University. Dorling is the author of All That Is Solid, Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists and A Better Politics.
  • Clenton Farquharson MBE – Chair, Think Local Act Personal
  • Donna Hall, CBE – Chair of New Local and Bolton NHS Trust, former Chief Executive of Wigan Council.
  • Ted Howard – US co-founder and President of The Democracy Collaborative, and a founding thinker behind Community Wealth Building.
  • Ruth Ibegbuna – Director of The Roots Programme and the founding CEO of ‘RECLAIM’, an award-winning social action and youth leadership programme with a focus on working class young people being seen, being heard and leading change.
  • Dr Jaweeda Idoo – Clinical Champion for Personalised Care, GMHSC
  • Katie Kelly – Deputy Chief Executive, East Ayrshire Council
  • Danny Kruger MBE – Conservative MP for Devizes and author of Levelling up our communities: proposals for a new social covenant 
  • Kim Leadbeater – Ambassador, Jo Cox Foundation.
  • Prof Sir Michael Marmot – Professor of epidemiology at University College London. Sir Michael led research groups on health inequalities and is engaged in several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He was knighted for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.
  • Edna Robinson – Chair, People’s Powerhouse
  • Dr Mark Spencer – GP behind ‘Healthier Fleetwood’ – a unique community health-building initiative in Lancashire.
  • Will Tanner – Director, Onward
  • Danielle Walker Palmour – Director, Friends Provident Foundation


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