team — Take the Jump

CHARITY TRUSTEES

Ben Hewitt - Chair of Board of Trustees

Ben has honed his skills as a manager, consultant and as a coach, for twenty years. Combining original and transformational thought with excellent cultural and commercial awareness, his experience covers micro-businesses with just one or two people, to major international organizations. Ben helps leaders and their teams to reach their potential, speak their truth and develop narratives and strategic campaigns that harness opportunities, grow audiences, and build a sense of authenticity and relevance, both internally and in the public domain. He has led teams, companies and groups through long-term interventions as a facilitator and coach.
Ben brings a particular intention to his role as Chair of The Jump, to focus on purpose, values and overall direction of travel.

Tonye Vianana - Board Treasurer

Tonye is a fully qualified chartered accountant and experienced Senior Finance personne with a proven track record over 15+ years in supporting the day-to-day operation of finance departments. She led and oversaw the delivery of the strategic finance plans of three organisations. She has a successful track record of managing finance functions, overseeing the accounts receivable, accounts payable, credit control, and payroll functions.

Emily Dyson - Officer for communications and media

Emily is currently Deputy Director at the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR), a small charity that strengthens the UK voluntary sector. Formerly, Emily was Head of Communications at IVAR. She has grown IVAR’s audience and introduced a more confident tone to communications. Emily has also led the co-production of IVAR’s first organisational strategy, which secured 5 years’ of core funding from a partnership of trusts and foundations. She was as Briefing Coordinator to Nick Clegg, at the time Deputy Prime Minister, in the run-up to the 2015 general election.

Lachlan Ayles -
Board Secretary, Officer for Young People

Lachlan studied Classics at Oxford University, Lachie woke up to the scale of the environmental crisis through a chat with a friend in 2018. Since then, Lachie has played an organising role in XR Oxford, Lambeth and Barcelona, as well as on The Time Is Now campaign. Lachie joined The Jump as a volunteer digital officer, late in 2020.
Alongside his work for The Jump, this year he has been supporting The Green Party’s Mayoral and London Assembly election campaign, as well as working for a food environmental impact assessment startup.

OPERATIONS TEAM

Tom Bailey - Outreach, partnerships, delivery.

Tom has 16 years of experience in energy and climate change across the private, public and third sectors. He has multidisciplinary experience as a green energy engineer and policy analyst, research leader, program manager, strategist, and communicator. He spent six years at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group as Head of Research and then Head of Special Projects. Before that he spent eight years as a sustainability engineer and consultant at global engineering firm Arup, with a six month secondment to the Greater London Authority as climate team technical lead. He has lived and worked in the UK, US, and China.

The take the jump team

CHARITY TRUSTEES

OPERATIONS TEAM