Laura Macartney

Co-founder & Director

Laura is one InCommon’s co-founders and directors. After working in education, theatre and development across Spain and Latin America, Laura decided to focus on a social issue a bit closer to home and spent time working with older people in the social care sector. Laura was struck by the lack of opportunities for older people to stay connected to their communities in later life, and believes that we all benefit when we are all included. Laura has been named as one of the WISE 100 top women in social enterprise and has won an UnLtd social enterprise award for her work with InCommon.

Charlotte Whittaker

Co-founder & Director

Charlotte is one of the co-founders and directors of InCommon. Growing up, Charlotte had close relationships with grandparents and older friends that made her passionate about the value of having friends of all ages. After university Charlotte became a Year Here Fellow, spending time working in a care home and learning to apply social innovation tools to the challenges of later life. After meeting Laura, they founded InCommon to bring people of different ages together for meaningful connection. Charlotte featured on the Women in Social Enterprise 2019 list and is a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs.

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Rosy Banham

Programme Officer

Rosy joined InCommon as Programme Officer at the start of 2020. Previously, she worked for several years in theatre, assistant directing shows across the UK. She has subsequently worked in homelessness hostels and with a local authority, where she brought her experience of the arts to social sector settings. Alongside her work with InCommon, she continues to run filmmaking workshops with people experiencing homelessness.

InCommon’s Advisory Board

Kirsty Turnbull

Non-executive Director

Kirsty is Head of Programme and Partnerships at Year Here - a postgraduate course in social innovation. Kirsty’s role is focussed on nurturing the most promising young professionals in the UK towards entrepreneurship that genuinely makes a difference, supporting the delivery of world-class learning experiences, and maintaining partnerships with leading social innovators, charities, policy-makers, community organisers and philanthropists. Previously she forged a career in public health and consumer healthcare at Johnson & Johnson Ltd, and worked for the Sozo Foundation, a grassroots NPO based in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

Sarah Wren

Sarah Wren is CEO of Hertfordshire Independent Living Service (HILS), a social enterprise that provides home care to elderly and disabled people in Hertfordshire, and more recently in London, operating as LILS. Having helped to establish the multi award-winning charity in 2007 as founder Chairman, Sarah became CEO in 2010. The business supports up to 2,000 people every day, through a number of services designed to help people stay independent, healthy, and happy at home.

Stephen Burke

Stephen Burke is director of the ‘think and do’ tank, United for All Ages, and the trip advisor style website, Good Care Guide. United for All Ages aims to create stronger communities and a stronger Britain by bringing older and younger people together. This includes promoting and developing shared sites, such as care-home nurseries and intergenerational housing schemes where older and younger people can mix and share activities and experiences. Previously Stephen was chief executive of two national care charities and the leader of a London borough.

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Hector Smethurst

Hector founded and runs Appt, a healthtech venture that uses behavioural economics to help patients manage their long-term conditions and GPs to hit their targets around preventative healthcare. He also works as a product specialist with the organisation DrDoctor, helping them achieve their mission of achieving change in healthcare by understanding people better.

Krishna Hathi

Krishna is Head of Programme at The Girls' Network, responsible for overseeing growth and delivery of their mentoring programme and ensuring maximum positive impact on teenage girls' confidence, motivation and grit. Krishna taught science at a secondary school in London after completing a Masters degree in Geophysics and has also worked in finance and education technology, building an app for A-level physics students. She is passionate about bridging the intergenerational gap and tackling loneliness.