The role of the central management team is to translate the Board’s vision and the North West's local and regional priorities into a workable, practical model of business support.

This includes agreeing strategic priorities with key stakeholders, securing and managing funding, ensuring value-for-money and quality of support, and establishing and maintaining a partnership of effective delivery organisations.

The team also defines the service offer and continually trials both new approaches to service delivery and new variations of support services, ensuring that our offer continues to meet business needs and policy objectives.

It plays a key role in identifying good practice and disseminating it throughout the partnership, to ensure that everybody learns lessons and continually strives to improve along the way.

The central team also directly provides a range of services to support its delivery partners and the businesses they work with. These include our Green Intelligence e-bulletins, the ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit, our ENWORKS In a Box resource, and managing a bank of specialist external consultants.

Angela Johnson, Programme Officer

Angela was appointed to ENWORKS as Programme Officer in September 2005, having worked in the environmental business service sector since 2000. Prior to joining the programme, she co-ordinated the delivery of the ENWORKS Resource Efficiency and Business Environment Association programmes for the North Manchester Sub-regional Partnership and was responsible for delivering environmental business reviews.

Angela has a BSc in Environmental Studies and Psychology. She supports the ENWORKS central management team in managing, auditing and supporting its sub-regional and sector specific delivery partner organisations and line manages the ENWORKS Programme Co-ordinator.

Dan Aris, Programme Officer

Dan has been part of the ENWORKS team since its establishment in 2001, having previously gained more than ten years’ experience as a regeneration practitioner in the Northwest. Before joining ENWORKS he worked as Senior Administrator for the Moss Side and Hulme Community Development Trust.

Dan’s qualifications include a degree in Philosophy and a postgraduate diploma in Management Studies. As a Programme Officer at ENWORKS, he supports the central management team in managing, auditing and supporting its sub-regional and sector specific delivery partner organisations and is involved in developing continuous professional development programmes to support them.

Helen Stradling, Marketing and Communications Officer

Helen joined ENWORKS as Marketing and Communications Officer in March 2010 from Freshfield Marketing Communications, where she managed public, non-profit and private sector communications accounts, as Senior PR Account Manager. She previously spent five years working at English National Ballet and the Royal Veterinary College in London, before relocating to the Northwest to establish and lead a PR and internal communications function at the UK Car Group.

Helen has an MA in Geography, with an emphasis on environmental and socio-economic studies, and a postgraduate diploma in Human Resource Management. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). At ENWORKS she is responsible for managing our marketing and communications contract, stakeholder relations and web presence, the Green Intelligence environmental news service and delivery of the Northwest Business Environment Awards.

James Gardner, Programme Officer

James joined ENWORKS in February 2008, bringing over ten years’ experience of working on a range of European and national grant funded business support, infrastructure and employment programmes. He has worked in a range of roles at Lloyds TSB, Business Link, Manchester Solutions and the Commission for the New Economy (formerly Manchester Enterprises). Prior to joining ENWORKS, James managed the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA)’s Regional Business Support Action Plan at the Commission for the New Economy.

James has a BA in Business Studies and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). As a Programme Officer at ENWORKS he supports the central management team in managing, auditing and supporting its sub-regional and sector specific delivery partner organisations and is involved in developing new systems to support partners in meeting funder requirements.

Jane Ashley, Resources Officer

Jane was appointed to the ENWORKS team in October 2008, following four years with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust as Lancashire Biodiversity Manager. In her previous role, she was responsible for monitoring partner progress towards delivering the Lancashire Biodiversity Action Plan, securing funding and establishing, managing and delivering a portfolio of projects.

Jane has a BSc in Environmental Science, an MSc in Countryside Management and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). As a Resources Officer, she facilitates the development of new systems, works with delivery partners on developing a range of pilot projects and is responsible for procuring and contract managing external delivery agencies.

Melanie Tapodi, Resources Officer

Melanie joined ENWORKS in March 2008 after two years at the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), where she managed a national, Defra funded Business Resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) programme. Previously, she worked in the chemical and utilities sectors, gaining experience in environmental legislation, process intervention to improve resource and energy efficiency and project management.

Melanie has a BSc in Chemistry with Pharmacology and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). As a Resources Officer at ENWORKS she facilitates the development of systems and works with delivery partners to develop a range of pilot projects. She helped to co-ordinate the ENWORKS ‘Obvious in Hindsight’ conference in March 2010 and is responsible for procuring and contract managing external delivery agencies.

Pauline Biggs, Administration Assistant

Pauline joined the ENWORKS central management team on a part-time basis in 2002, bringing with her many years of experience as a Personal Assistant, administrator and receptionist, including 13 years at BT’s offices in Manchester and Huddersfield and six years supporting a company importing consumer goods from the Far East.

At ENWORKS she is responsible for providing a full administrative and finance service to the team, including reception support, event co-ordination, and diary management for the senior management team.

Peter Cranmer, Finance Officer

Peter joined the ENWORKS team as Finance Officer in 2006, bringing ten years of experience as a part-qualified CIMA management accountant at the Guardian Media Group. His role involved financial reporting across the Group, including for the The Guardian, The Observer and Manchester Evening News. More recently he was a partner in a recruitment consultancy, managing the operations and finances of the business, which served the industrial, retail and catering sectors in the North of England.

At ENWORKS, Peter has worked on programmes funded through the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB), Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and a range of other public and private sector organisations. His current role is to oversee the financial management of our programme by working closely with funders, delivery partners and our accountable body, Groundwork UK, to consolidate and verify all financial claims.

Samantha Nicholson, Programmes Director

Samantha joined ENWORKS in 2003, to help launch the new resource efficiency programme and develop the ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit. She had previously worked in the North West’s environmental business services sector since 1999, delivering environmental management systems and resource efficiency support to businesses.

In June 2011 Samantha was promoted to Programmes Director, with overall responsibility for directing the ENWORKS central management function. She oversees the strategic and operational development of the programme and manages the ongoing development of a range of tools for businesses and stakeholders, including the ENWORKS Toolkit and the ENWORKS In a Box web portal.

Samantha has an MSc in Environmental Resources and a degree in Architecture. She is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). She has been invited to deliver MSc course lectures across the North West, on sustainable development and environmental business improvements.

Sandra Hills, Contracts Manager

Sandra joined ENWORKS as Contracts Manager in March 2008, bringing with her more than 20 years of private sector experience, largely within the manufacturing sector. Her experience spans a range of industry sectors and has included operations and supply chain management, quality management and customer service, with a particular focus on developing business systems and implementing best practice initiatives in complex organisations.

Sandra has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Management Studies and Associate Membership of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). At ENWORKS she oversees the management and development of our delivery partnership network to ensure the efficient running of the programme and the achievements of outcomes and outputs against targets.

Shaun Gibbons, Programme Analyst

Shaun joined the ENWORKS team in July 2007 as Programme Assistant, after six months of supporting workplace health programmes in the Environmental Business Support team at Groundwork Oldham and Rochdale. In 2011 he took up the role of Programme Analyst, responsible for managing and analysing data to support the effective co-ordination of the ENWORKS programme. His responsibilities also include processing partner claims and monitoring the ongoing performance of the programme’s network of delivery partners.

Shaun has a BA in Economics and Geography, with an emphasis on environmental sustainability and statistical methods. He is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).