TOGETHER ACTIVE - Key Persons


Alistair Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Manager - Primary Prevention

Andrew Arnott

Job Titles:
  • Sport and Active Lifestyles Business Manager

Angela Dale


Arron Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Sport Engagement Co - Ordinator ( Active Universities )

Ben Percival

Job Titles:
  • Head of Operational Services

Calvin Austin

Job Titles:
  • Learner Involvement Co - Ordinator

Carly Jones - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive

Caroline Gilford

Job Titles:
  • Finance Lead

Catherine Pendlebury

Job Titles:
  • Sports Development Officer

Charlotte Smith

Job Titles:
  • Head of Policy and Strategy

David Hardwick


David Sutton

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Emma Varnam

Job Titles:
  • Sports Development Officer

Gareth Knapper


Georgia Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Administration Officer

Hazell Thorogood

Job Titles:
  • Head of Operations
  • Support / Contacts / Meet the Team

Jackie Brennan

Job Titles:
  • Development Officer - Active Environments
  • Support / Contacts / Meet the Team

James Abbott

Job Titles:
  • Leisure Services Contract Manager

Joanne Lockett

Job Titles:
  • Data and Analysis Officer
  • Support / Contacts / Meet the Team

John Beswick

Job Titles:
  • NCS Coordinator

Julia Kendrick


Karen Moss


Katy Warren

Job Titles:
  • Development Lead - Health and Wellbeing

Kimiyo Rickett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Senior Independent Director
  • Board Members
  • Senior Independent Director / Grounds Management Association, Board Director
Kimiyo spent over 30 years working in Culture and Leisure in local government and in that time was involved in promoting equality and diversity in Sport, sitting on a number of Panels for Sport England. She was also a volunteer in disability sport for over 20 years. As a parent of a young person involved in club and county sport she became a local volunteer. Kimiyo was excited to join Together Active in order to contribute to the well-being communities through her passion for inclusion in sport, her knowledge of financial management and her experience of close working with Public Health colleagues to increase physical activity.

Laura Lacey

Job Titles:
  • Development Lead - Powerful Communities

Lee Booth

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Contracts Manager

Lee Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Area Manager

Lijana Kaziow

Job Titles:
  • Safeguarding and Welfare Adviser

Lisa Shephard


Lucy Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Sports Development Manager

Mark Kent

Job Titles:
  • Curriculum Manager for Sport and Public Services

Matt Timlin

Job Titles:
  • Contract Manager

Matthew Rowley


Michael Huss

Job Titles:
  • Sports Development Manager

Mike Edmonds

Job Titles:
  • Head of Commissioning

Natalie Jolley


Neil Brown

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Indoor Facilities and Sports Manager

Nikki Couzens


Paul Muir - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Board Members
  • Chairman of Our Board
  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Together Active / Chair of the Governance and Appointments Sub - Committee Member of the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Sub - Committee
Paul has worked in housing, health and social care sectors since 1981. He holds an MSc in Public Policy, a certificate of qualification in social work and a diploma in applied social sciences. Paul is committed to reducing inequalities and designing out unnecessary poor outcomes for people. He has previously been a board member of Potteries Housing (now Brighter Futures) and was a founder member and Chair of High Peak Advocacy Forum. Most recently Paul has been working with West Midlands Combined Authority's Homelessness Taskforce. Prior to that he was Director of Operations at Triangle Consulting Social Enterprise. Paul has supported the redesign of community mental health services for mental health trusts and conducted homelessness strategy reviews for various local authorities. Earlier in his career he was instrumental in the design, commission and support of six Sure Start centres across Staffordshire and led the implementation of the Health Action Zone in North Staffordshire. Now semi-retired, Paul spends his spare time making the most of the outdoors and spending time with his grandchildren. You'll find him "doing mildly daft activities ranging from climbing and fell running to cycling and many things in between." Despite being nowhere near the sea Paul's latest activity is learning to sea kayak. Paul joined Together Active as the Chair of our Board in January 2023 seeing an opportunity to combine two of his passions; physical activity and inclusion.

Rob Sharratt


Rob Wilks

Job Titles:
  • Principal Officer ( Leisure and Recreation )

Sarah Heath

Job Titles:
  • Development Officer - Lived Experience

Sarah Sleigh

Job Titles:
  • Health and Wellbeing Development Manager
  • Sports Development Officer

Sharon Heath

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Board Members
  • Trustee and Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee
  • Trustee and Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee / Management Accountant - Everybody Sports & Recreation / Committee Member of North West Chartered Management Accountants
Over the years Sharon has been involved with a number of government initiatives, for example Sure Start, Children Centre, Community Learning Partnerships where service delivery ranged from employment and life skills, variety of health and active lives programmes, (such as child obesity and PE funding). Sharon is currently employed by Everybody Sport and Recreation which is a Health and Wellbeing charity based in Cheshire East that improves people's lives through physical activity & healthy recreation. She is passionate that these valuable services can be a lifeline to members of the community and have seen first-hand of the changes these initiatives have made to their lives. "I was keen to join the board so that I could use my financial expertise in Charity Finance, along with my background of working for a number of not-for-profit establishments to support the vision of Together Active. It also gives me pleasure knowing that I am giving back to the community and helping to make a difference to the lives of others. When I'm not working or juggling family life, I enjoy nothing better that going for a long walk in the country or enjoying a gym class such of circuit training or body pump."

Simon Leach

Job Titles:
  • Membership & Communications Officer

Simon Nutall

Job Titles:
  • Team Manager Leisure & Facilities

Simon Nuttall

Job Titles:
  • Performance Review Officer

Tasmin Turner

Job Titles:
  • Sports Development Officer