Diana is an experienced business advisor and facilitator with some 25 years’ experience in the cooperative, social enterprise and charitable sectors. Drawing on her training as a building surveyor and her passion for social and environmental justice she has developed her career working with community enterprises and local authorities.
Diana draws on her training as a building surveyor and has an M.Sc. in Voluntary Sector Organisation. She has worked with many communities across the South West, for example:
- Evaluation of heritage capital and activity projects.
- Supporting community asset transfer and asset development projects.
- Supporting the development of start-up Societies and community businesses.
- Development of community share offers and Standard Mark assessments.
- Facilitating group processes such as strategic reviews and theory of change planning.
- Grant assessor for a major community business investor.
For many years Diana ran the Rules Registration Service for Wessex Community Assets – registering community benefit societies, undertaking company conversions and providing governance training and support.
Diana is Licensed by the Community Shares Unit to award the Community Shares Standard Mark
Diana has completed Carbon Literacy® training: “An awareness of the carbon costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.”