Jess Steele launched Jericho Road Solutions in May 2013. Having worked intensively as a local community activist - first in Deptford, then in Hastings - and for the last 10 years at national level with BURA, DTA and Locality, it was time to bring all this experience together.
The Jericho Road is a two-way street connecting neighbourhood and national perspectives. JRS offers neighbourhood coaching to good people in interesting places doing ambitious projects, while working with government, funders, corporates and academics at national level to make neighbourhood change easier.
Before then Jess was Director of Innovation at Locality, the national network of community-led organisations. ...