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Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
@colors.bsky.social @colors.bsky.social a bot that lists out all the colors by @spencerchang.me
inspired by https://twitter.com/everycolorbot and https://twitter.com/everycolorhaiku
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Philippa @philippanewis.bsky.social Director at Public Digital. 
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social 
Matt Stibbs @mattstibbs.bsky.social Technical product person. Love data, interop, tech plumbing ❤️. Organiser of @nhshackday and @ukhealthcamp
Also at @mattstibbs@mastodon.social and @mattstibbs@x.com
Harry Harrold @harryharrold.bsky.social Medium-sized fat bloke. #ukcharitycamp Helps build web stuff @neontribe. Tries to be agile and user-centered. Proud resident of the Fine City of Norwich. Has never been a TV producer. (He/they)
Imran Hussain @imhuyorks.bsky.social Love all things collaboration and community. Founder of GovCamp North and Design System Day. Organiser UKGovCamp, Services Week and GovJams.
Currently doing community @gdsteam.
Site: https://www.imranhussain.uk
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
dxw @dxw.com We design, build and run digital public services that make people's lives better.
dxw is employee owned.
Find out more about us 👉 https://linktr.ee/_dxw
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Lily Dart @lilydart.bsky.social Design Director @photobox. 20 years in design. 10 yrs public speaking. Diversity, inclusion & design at scale. Advisory board @innovateheruk she/her 🏳️🌈 ♿️
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com Empowering Neurodivergent professionals to thrive at work
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, carer, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
Abisola @abisola.bsky.social Aspiring human
Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social \o/
https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.com 
Leisa Reichelt @leisar.bsky.social betwixt and between
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
Undermanager @undermanager.bsky.social As disappointed as you are
Gaz Aston @gazaston.com Design n’ that. UCD in government & tech for good.
Lover of nature. Dad of dog. Maker of bread and beats.
Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social Designer and occasional product person. Endlessly talking about how great you are.
Jessica Studdert @jesstud.bsky.social Always searching for good coffee.
Cat Cutmore @catcutmore.bsky.social Marketing & Events Manager at @Nexer_Digital
We run #CampDigital
https://www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital/2026/
Edinburgh-based
Emma Parnell @emmaparnell.bsky.social Taking a relational approach to co-designing the services that impact people's lives.
Service design consultant, writer, mentor, public speaker.
Designing over at Design for Joy: designforjoy.co.uk
she/her
Jeanette Clement @clementcreative.bsky.social Potter. Designer.
Janet Hughes @janethughes.bsky.social Director General Reform and Efficiency, UK Cabinet Office
Allotmenteer, reader, over-enthusiast.
Here to learn and make things work better.
Kara Kane @karakane-kk.bsky.social Design leadership — writing a book called Strong Design. 
Catherine Hope @catherinehope.bsky.social Data analysis, theatre, food
New Local @wearenewlocal.bsky.social We're an independent think tank and network of councils with a mission to transform public services and unlock community power.
Find out more: https://www.newlocal.org.uk
Nick Kimber @nick80.bsky.social Director of Public Service Reform at Cabinet Office. Seconded from Camden Council. Was a Policy Fellow at IIPP @ UCL; Policy Associate at Future Governance Forum
Phil Rumens @rumens.uk Principal Technologist for GDS Local. Part of @LocalGovDigital.
Advocate of technology enabled user centred design.
o7 CMDR
David Durant @bowsy.co.uk I've been in the gov tech and transformation communitiy since 2009. I've worked for mySociety, the GLA, HackIT and GDS. I'm on the committees for GovCamp, Policy Camp, TransformGov Talks, the National Strategy Project and the UK Polyamory Association.
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Stamanfar @stamanfar.bsky.social Service designer, DHSC. It's more than what you bargained for but it's a little less than what you paid for.
Antony Poveda @tonytoners.bsky.social Some sort of designer/Head of Morale, mainly content. Working for users of government. Stealing all your best ideas since 2014 (reading stuff, not much posting). antonypoveda.design Sheffield.
Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | https://dracos.co.uk
steve @visitmy.website workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk Man of many talents—some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery'.
Also Wikipedia, Wikidata &c. OpenStreetMap. Birds. Birmingham. Open data. FoI. Art. Architecture. History. FRSA.
Everything is interesting.
Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social People+planet-centred Service Designer / Product Manager
Service Manual & Service Standard, GDS, DSIT
Woke
he/him
Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social Bring us together,
make things better.
@janethughes.bsky.social's husband (-:
Senior delivery manager at @tpximpact.com
https://www.cattell.com
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
Si Manby @cthimon.bsky.social Product person at Justice Digital UK
tom hoyland @tomhoyland.bsky.social I Build the Teams that Build Your Products 💥 Agile & DevOps Leader - Enterprise Agility and Systemic Change Consultant | Professional Coach, Expert Mentor and Facilitator | MD @ that agile
Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social product manager
disabled and liver transplant recipient
whippet owner/servant
she/her
David Heath @davidheath.org Trying to make things work better
Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social Filmmaker / Directing #section28film
Founder: anthrobricolage.com
Director: good.services @theschoolofgood
DR of Design, once ran
@wearesnook
Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack
GOOD Magazine #100
Board member at @lomondtrossachs
She/they
HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk Artist, animator, utter nonsense. Don't believe a word except when I'm being serious. Did that gif once, those noseflags and other stuff.
HappyToast.co.uk
patreon.com/HappyToast
redbubble.com/people/HappyToast/explore
https://ko-fi.com/happytoast 
Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social Writer (on science, travel & curiosity), Yorkshireman, tedious enthusiast, professional overthinker, Megathreader. Now: Scotland.
Writes Everything Is Amazing: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/
Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social Ceramic painter bringing dramatic galactic moments to your dinner table. PNW. (she/her)
linktr.ee/amyraehill
Restock: TBD
Flo Lee Artist @florenceleeandco.bsky.social Artist - focussing mainly on portraits
Prints and Original Art
www.florenceleeandco.com
Commissions open
Camilo Carreno-Gonzalez @camilocarreno.bsky.social Colombian Visual Artist currently based in Chicago, IL. #caneyo
Loose Ends @looseendsproject.bsky.social Loose Ends aims to ease grief, create community, and inspire generosity by matching volunteer handwork finishers with textile projects people have left undone due to death or disability.
360Giving @360giving.org UK charity that helps organisations to publish open, standardised grants data, and supports people to use it to make grantmaking more informed, effective and strategic.
#OpenData #Philanthropy
Find out more at www.360giving.org
Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
Lighthouse Policy Design @lighthousepd.bsky.social Amplifying diverse voices and equipping teams with the tools and methods to create impactful, inclusive policies.
https://www.lighthousepolicydesign.co.uk/
Annemcx @annemcx.bsky.social Ceramic artist living in Cornwall UK. Previously digital business design, data strategy, quantified organisation. Likes firing synapses. More at annemccrossan.com
Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
Rob Miller @robmiller31.bsky.social Senior Director @ Public Digital, but these views are just mine. Also at @robmiller31@mastodon.social and occasionally blogging at bytherye.com/about-me/. Have quit the Bad Place.
Ann Fielding @annfielding.bsky.social DCMS
Tania Cohen @tanias.london She/her.
Londoner, historian, guide, baker, volunteer, community choir singer, charity manager.
Passionate about history, charities, philanthropy & changing the world.
Views my own - except shares
Sally Meecham @sallymeecham.bsky.social Better public services. Inclusion. Wales 🏴
Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com I increase organisations’ capacity to think clearly, make better decisions and create more value.
Ex-agency founder. Dad. Mancunian 🐝
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/harrybailey
Raheela Rehman @raheela-rehman.bsky.social Energy IRC https://bsky.app/profile/energycambridge.bsky.social
#energy
Global Equity @CambridgeGloba1
#SDGs Equity in materials & local gov
STEMM advocate, previous Chair @CamAWiSE #stem #EDI
www.energy.cam.ac.uk
www.gci.cam.ac.uk
Power to Change @powertochange.org.uk We are the think-do tank that backs community business. We turn bold ideas into action so communities have the power to change what matters to them.
powertochange.org.uk
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
mySociety @mysociety.org We create digital services that break down barriers to democratic participation, equipping people to take action and drive meaningful change. Subscribe to our updates at http://eepurl.com/gOEVFj
CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social UK charity. Providing free courses, resources and networking opportunities to help charities and social impact organisations harness the full power of digital and AI. Also working with funders to create an environment of support. See www.wearecast.org.uk.
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent. 
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
Mike Wild @mikewildmacc.bsky.social CEO at Manchester Community Central, supporting local charities, community orgs and social enterprises to make more good things happen. (Also TV and music geekery) [he/him]
Ian | Founder & Firestarter @cubicgarden.com Previously Senior firestarter at BBC RD, emergent technology expert and serial social geek event organiser.
http://www.cubicgarden.com | @cubicgarden@mas.to
Shaf @shaftag.bsky.social Cofounder of The Riz Test
Tracey @tgyateng.bsky.social ❤️social sector, research, responsible data, stats. Forever a volunteer - with DTBC, @opendatamcr; trustee @AccessSocialCare; @TSC_London
I Am Kloot Club @iamklootclub.bsky.social Fan Club dedicated to spreading the Gospel of I Am Kloot ~ Run by Matt @bongbrummie.bsky.social 
Martin Parr @martinparr.bsky.social Data Policy & Practice Director at CABI. All things #OpenScience #OpenAccess #FAIRdata https://www.fairprocessframework.org also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinparr1
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Who Targets Me @whotargets.me On political ads, transparency and what's right for democracy. Go to https://whotargets.me/download to get involved, check out https://trends.whotargets.me for data on >100k digital political advertisers. Newsletter: fulldisclosure.whotargets.me
Jamie Klingler @jamieklingler.bsky.social Co founder Reclaim These Streets, campaign for women’s safety and police reform in UK. Writer, speaker, activist, puppies Biggie & Smalls, run PSU Alum in UK and Philly born, Eagles/Phillies
https://linktr.ee/jamieklingler
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com Senior Content Designer & Strategist specialising in trauma-informed content. Dutchman living in France, working in London. Passionate about AI’s impact on career and workplace, diversity 🏳️🌈 and creating content that truly serves people. Dog owner.
Richard Kendall @richardkendall.bsky.social Experienced Product Manager - open to work! > 10 yrs dig product: content/CMS/taxonomies/site builds/AI; 12 yrs local news website editor; https://linktr.ee/rkendall
👍 music, photography, environment, cricket.
📍Now: Peterborough, UK. Orig: Devon
Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
@annielbravo.bsky.social @annielbravo.bsky.social 
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Tim Rivett @timrivett.bsky.social Public transport data, data standards, smart ticketing and other more random things.
Independent Consultant on Transport Information.
Runs RTIG Inform www.rtig.org.uk
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Rod McLaren @rodm.bsky.social Writing words for climate and digital, for orgs like Sport England, FF, ustwo, Public Digital, [redacted] and you. Ex Co-op, Mobbu, ECK.L, F365. Was @rod in the other place. 
@jo-scho.bsky.social @jo-scho.bsky.social Content design and strategy.
Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social Public sector digital/strategy consultant. UK based, though frequent visitor to Ankh Morpork. Mother of two small humans, servant to one large cat.
Matt Wood-Hill @mattwoodhill.bsky.social Public sector digital person. Finding new ways of working to improve the technology market for planning services with Open Digital Planning. Works at MHCLG.