Ros Abbott

During the 1970s, Ros was involved in community action in Manchester having trained in youth and community. From 1979, Ros was employed as a community development worker for the Scottish Special Housing Association, based in Glasgow, working on housing and tenant issues. Ros moved to Hull where she was involved in setting up Hull DOC (Developing Our Communities), a community development agency, and worked for many years as a development worker for Hull Federation of Community Organisations; she is currently an outreach worker for Hull Community Network.

Brian Astin

Having worked in Swindon as a community development worker in the early 1970s, Brian left to coordinate the Barton Project in Oxford from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, a neighbourhood-based organisation in which he had specific responsibility for overseeing the student unit providing placements for social work students wishing to practise community development. Brian left Oxford to establish and run a social policy unit within the chief executive's department of Oldham Council, focused on anti-poverty work, equalities, voluntary and community sector development. Brian currently oversees corporate strategy and partnerships for Pendle Borough Council.

Alan Barr

Alan started community work in the late 1960s, running Student Community Action and working with the National Union of Students. Alan worked for the Oldham Community Development Project (CDP) for five years during the 1970s before moving to Strathclyde Council to run a fieldwork teaching unit in community work in the Social Work department. He then moved to the University of Glasgow to teach community development before returning to Strathclyde as a principal officer for community development. In the early 1990s he worked with others to establish the Scottish Community Development Centre, where he currently works as a co-director.

Ann Chapman

Ann worked as a generic community worker in the London Borough of Lewisham throughout the 1980s and as the Principal Community Development Officer for Newcastle City Council during the 1990s. With brief spells within the Home Office and also lecturing on community work and women's studies in the academic field, Ann then moved to Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire where she is currently the Principal Community Development Manager. Ann was also vice chair of SCCD (Standing Conference for Community Development), later CDX (Community Development Exchange).