Hazel is Senior Programme Manager at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and works in international public health research programmes in Africa. She has worked with LSTM for 10 years and her portfolio includes managing global, multi-million pound programmes, designing and implementing robust governance, financial and management systems, managing national and international multi-disciplinary teams and establishing overseas offices.

Hazel has over 20 years’ experience in the public, private and voluntary sectors; she has provided senior level technical and executive support to elected Leaders and Chief Executive Officers on a range of regeneration issues – economic, social and health related. In addition, she has led on consultation responses at regional, national and European policy level which affected the Liverpool City-region’s socio-economic development.

Her academic background is in socio-economic regeneration and European policy, with a BSc (Hons) in European Regional Development. More recently she achieved an MBA (Distinction) from The University of Liverpool, winning MBA Student of the Year Award in 2015.

Stephen is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) with over 15 years’ experience in the construction and built environment sector, spanning project management, education, and curriculum development. His career has focused on bridging the gap between industry and education, with particular expertise in apprenticeship coaching, internal quality assurance, and curriculum leadership.

Stephen has led collaborative initiatives with key stakeholders including Liverpool City Region, The Women’s Organisation, and the property and construction sector to tackle skills gaps and support underrepresented groups—particularly women, Black and ethnic minority communities, and young people—to access opportunities in the industry.

He has delivered vocational training and qualifications at BTEC, NVQ and CIOB Levels 3–6, and has worked nationally across London, the Midlands, and Yorkshire before relocating to Liverpool. Alongside his work in education, Stephen has hands-on industry experience as a project surveyor and consultant.

He is passionate about raising standards, improving learner outcomes and creating more inclusive, accessible pathways into construction and the built environment.

Helen is a social investor and the founder and CEO of Seebohm Hill Ltd, a Liverpool-based social investment consultancy. She spent more than 2 decades working in the financial services industry as an analyst, equity salesperson and investor, mostly specialising in Japanese equities.

Since 2011 Helen has worked with a number of social organisations, social investors and the Cabinet Office in roles involving the measurement and reporting of social value, investment due diligence and research of the social finance market.

She has co-authored a number of papers and a book on social finance and has undertaken detailed research on the social economy of the Liverpool City Region and north west England. Helen is an experienced presenter on social investment and social enterprise.

She is a Visiting Fellow at The Heseltine Institute for Public Policy & Practice, Chair of Governors for Studio@Deyes, member of the Executive Board of AMP SCITT, and a non-executive director of Lydiate Learning Trust.

Fr Crispin has been Rector of Liverpool since 2014. His first degree was in Classics before going on to study theology, followed by post-graduate research on the 20th century theologian Karl Rahner.

Fr Crispin was ordained in 2003 and came to Liverpool Parish Church (known as St Nick’s) from a parish in North Birmingham, where he developed an interest in church mission and growth. As Rector of Liverpool, Fr Crispin has a particular place in the civic life of the city, but he is also committed to maintaining the Parish Church as a place of welcome and sanctuary for all, developing the social outreach of the Church. Fr Crispin is a trustee of a number of charities and social enterprise organisations, working to develop the social benefit of the voluntary sector.

A native of Cheshire and educated in Macclesfield and then Nottingham Medical School, Bruce worked as a GP in a busy inner city practice in Birkenhead for 35 years where he was the senior partner with overall responsibility for clinical standards within the team and a particular interest in the care of the elderly. He also developed an expertise in cardiovascular disease.

Bruce served on several committees during his career including chairing the local medical committee of GPs and being vice chairman of the local drugs and therapeutics committee. He helped set up the Wirral out of hours service and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2002.

Bruce helped run the local community cardiac clinic and served as a GP lead on cardiology both at Wirral Clinical Commissioning group [CCG] and also as the primary care cardiology lead for the Cheshire and Merseyside clinical network where he helped developed local and regional initiatives on high blood pressure [Hypertension] and stroke prevention.

Outside of work, Bruce is married with two sons, one of whom works in Sheffield as an architect with an interest in social housing and his other son works as a primary school teacher in inner city Liverpool. Bruce’s main pastime is golf and he is a past captain of Royal Liverpool Golf club. He also enjoys walking, gardening and photography.

Jill is a Chartered Accountant, born and raised in Liverpool. Until 2020, she spent her career in the accountancy sector, with the 7th largest UK accountancy firm, RSM (and its predecessor firms). At RSM she was the North West Managing Partner, a member of the firm’s National Leadership Team, a Main Board Director and Chief Operating Officer.

In 2021 Jill became a Trustee of Local Solutions following a 5 month period as a non-executive advisor to the Trustees. She is also a Trustee of Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust and Coleg Cambria and is a non-executive Director of DSW Capital Limited. Jill is a keen football fan and enjoys walking, pilates and paddle boarding.

Elliott is a Lead Paralegal at DWF Law LLP, a global legal business that was founded in Liverpool in 1977. A proud Welshman, Elliott moved to Merseyside in 2014 to study Law LLB, graduating from the University of Liverpool with upper second class honours in 2017.  Following University, he began a journey of progression with DWF, gaining several promotions that would lead him from the position of Administrator in May 2017 to his current role in the Catastrophic Injury department, where he assists on cases that often hold a damages reserve in excess of £10 million. He is set to commence a period of sponsored study in September 2023 and qualify as a solicitor 18 months thereafter. As well as acting as Trustee for Local Solutions, Elliott is a member of the Ashley Rogers Memorial Committee (ARM), which organises the annual ‘Dash for Ash’ 5km run in his native county of Pembrokeshire.

Outside of work, Elliott enjoys running (or attempting to), walking through Sefton Park, or reading.

With over 20 years’ experience in retail, facilities and property management, Karl is a customer focussed, client experience professional having worked at Manchester Arndale during its redevelopment and latterly, as Centre Director for Savills at Runcorn Shopping Centre, where he delivered a strong community focussed shopping centre whilst creating a bespoke customer experience.  Karl has worked with Merseyrail delivering customer experience across 67 stations and was responsible for over 400 staff. He believes in delivering strong stakeholder engagement as well as making a difference to people and places.