The Social Spider team:

Mark Brown - Development Director / Editor, One in Four

Mark has three great interests: Mental health, helping people communicate and making projects work.

Mark’s experience of mental health difficulty helps him to develop and carry out training and projects related to mental health that really change people’s minds.

Mark develops many of Social Spider’s projects and works strategically to turn ideas into projects that make change happen.

Mark is comfortable discussing mental health and enjoys developing public information that helps people to understand and overcome mental health difficulties.

Mark delivers Social Spider’s citizen journalism training and loves to use his own experiences as a way of helping others to talk and communicate about theirs.

David Floyd – Managing Director

David develops and manages projects, both within Social Spider and working with partner organisations.

David likes getting things done. He is good at taking ideas and making them work in practice.

David has lots of experience of starting and running community projects and social enterprises in a variety of fields including media, the arts, homelessness and community consultation.

David is a Non-Executive Director of Inpress, the sales and marketing agency for independent publishers in the UK and Ireland.

David blogs about social enterprise at Beanbags and Bullsh!t.

Stephen Gardiner – Operations Manager / Business Manager, One in Four

Stephen is good at organising and making things happen.

He has a lot of experience managing all kinds of projects in the worlds of journalism and media, for example running multi-national music campaigns, launching and leading broadcasting companies, delivering print products, and supplying training services.

Whether the project is worth several million or several hundred pounds, Stephen will set timelines, construct critical paths, create reporting mechanisms, deal with legal and regulatory matters, set up commercial relationships, and build and control budgets.

He also has a long record in journalism and contributes to the editorial and creative output of his colleagues at Social Spider.

David Warrington – Project Manager, Contrast

David is project manager for Social Spider's Hackney youth media project, Contrast.

Neill Harvey-Smith - Non-Executive Director

Neill is an independent consultant working across the boundaries of business, education and training. He has been an HR manager at Procter & Gamble, a senior manager at charity Intowork, and Commercial Director for training company Cahro. He was Managing Director of Debate Chamber, an educational enterprise, from 2003-09.

As a communication consultant, Neill has worked with a long list of clients including KPMG, Barclays Capital, Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs and AEGON. He is a former Chair of the World Debating Council and has lectured, coached and been a guest speaker at universities all over the world.