The New Organising Conference, brings organisers together from across the movement: from the grassroots to unions, big and small, old and new. To organise and fight for justice, in workplaces and communities across the UK. Focused on building power for all working people, especially those marginalised by broken systems; we believe the fight for workers’ rights is deeply connected to broader fights for racial, gender, and migrant justice. Our mission is to unite these struggles and build collective power.
About the NOC:
Meet the team
Roxy Khan-Williams
Roxy has been an activist, organiser and campaigner for many years. She currently works as the Head of Campaigns for Organise, workers’ rights network, campaigning across workplaces and sectors. Roxy also runs her own Palestine advocacy group and refugee community project, specialising in community organising and narrative change. When not organising or starting new side hustles, you can usually find her laughing at her own jokes.
Board Member
Ian Manborde
Ian is a regional officer at Equity, the UK trade union for actors, performers and creative practitioners working across the entertainment industry and creative economy. Ian has worked at Equity since 2017. Prior to this he was an educator in the labour movement for over 25 years. Between 2006-2017 he managed the MA in International Labour & Trade Union Studies at Ruskin College, Oxford.
Board Member
Amy Tait-Westwell
Amy Tait works with a small international group of teachers and workers’ educators, as Director at Cat’s Cradle, to develop political education programmes for supplementary schools, political parties, trades unions, and tenants unions. Amy also trains radical teachers and writes about theories and practices of militant education.
Board Member
Carolyn Hayman OBE
Carolyn’s longstanding interest in employment started with the labour and demography module of her Masters. While in the Civil Service she led on the Cabinet Office's work on the impact of microelectronics on employment as well as being FDA branch secretary. As Chief Executive of the Foyer Federation she supported Foyers to get homeless young people back into education, including university, and work. She is one of the members of the Network for Social Change Labour Rights core group
Board Member
Stuart Richards
Stuart is the Regional Secretary of the TUC Midlands and has been active in the labour movement since the late 1990s. His role in supporting Amazon workers in Midlands to build a collective union voice was featured in the BBC documentary series Strike: Inside the Unions. He has written on union related issues for the Tribune, Jacobin, Morning Star, Big Issue and in the book Organising Amazon: Building Worker Power Under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and Regimentation.
Board Member
Siobhan McGuirk
Siobhán is a researcher, writer and educator specialising in queer migration and social justice movements. They have been an editor at Red Pepper magazine since 2018 and was previously an editor for local newspapers Manchester Mule and The DC Mic Check. Siobhán has bylines in a diverse range of outlets, including the i newspaper, Left Cultures, The Pavement, shado mag, The New Arab and Teen Vogue
Board Member
Joy Atkinson
Joy supports with outreach & operations to make the NOC a success. They are a movement strategist, facilitator & organiser, with a varied background in social justice work. Alongside her role in the team, she is a Co-Director of Soulwork & Co, Associate Trainer with Tripod: Training for Creative Social Action and politicised somatics practitioner, focused on building internal capacity & resilience in justice-led groups & organisations.
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