Lucy Brill, Former Director

Dr. Lucy Brill worked for Homeworkers Worldwide between 2017-2023, initially managing research on working conditions in the UK textile industry. She worked alongside Jane Tate, HWW’s International Co-ordinator until her retirement, co-ordinating work with homeworkers in footwear manufacturing supply chains in Tamil Nadu.

From 2019-2023 she co-ordinated HWW’s brand engagement role with the EC funded Hidden Homeworkers programme, led by Transform Trade India and working closely with HomeNet South Asia and several local partners in India, Pakistan and Nepal.

Prior to re-joining HWW Lucy worked for Oxfam on poverty and livelihood programmes in England between 2008-14, and subsequently at Bradford and Manchester universities. She now works as Private Sector Policy Lead for the catholic international development charity CAFOD.

Lucy’s doctoral thesis explored the situation of homeworkers within a globalising world, focusing specifically on homeworkers, and the organisations working with them, in the UK and Chile. Lucy also has practical experience of working with homeworker organisations both in the UK and in Chile, and worked for both National Group on Homeworking and Homeworkers Worldwide on research and policy issues, between 2002-4.

Gudrun Lauret, Administrator

Gudrun has over 10 years’ administration experience, much of it in the public sector. She has worked in adult safeguarding, local authorities, the NHS, public health organisations and a mental health charity.

She has also been a published writer for 25 years, and brings her copywriting, digital marketing and communication skills to her role. She has a degree in Communication and a national journalism qualification.

She has worked with charities in the past, and is familiar with the particular challenges and successes in the sector.

She is passionate about the work that HWW does and she’s keen to contribute towards making a difference for hidden homeworkers around the world.

Peter Williams, Labour rights consultant and activist

Peter is a consultant/activist working on labour rights and livelihoods with wide experience in international development. This experience includes 14 years in Oxfam, managing field programmes in Brazil and Oxfam’s Fair Trade Programme and finally as Global Livelihoods Adviser, focusing on the rights of informal workers (homeworkers, smallholder farmers and their employees) in global supply chains.

Peter is active in the Ethical Trading Initiative, representing HWW in the ETI Homeworker Project (2004 - 2014) and in our engagement with ETI member companies, and is the ETI NGO Co-ordinator (a part time role).

Jacqui Mackay, Chair

Jacqui was the National Coordinator of innovative international development charity, Banana Link between 2003 - 2020 during which time she led a number of projects to increase worker organisation, education and gender equity with banana workers and their unions in Cameroon and Ghana, which delivered significant impact on the ground. She led a ‘Comparative analysis of gender equity across supply chains’ which built a greater understanding of gender equity in global agriculture and what strategies can drive progress. She has extensive experience of governance as a director, governor and trustee.

Jacqui is the General Manager of Frozen Light, who create theatre for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities, as well as a Director of The Common Lot CIC.

Julie Jarman

Strategy Hub, Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Manchester, UK

Julie Jarman has worked on poverty alleviation projects in the UK and internationally for 30 years. She worked for WaterAid for 6 years and for Oxfam as the England Director in the UK Poverty Programme for 13 years, and in this role supported work on the labour rights of vulnerable workers in the UK. She has a particular commitment to work on homeworking and the labour rights of vulnerable women workers. She is currently a non-executive director of Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust. Julie’s main skills are in strategic planning, programme management and governance.

Al Garthwaite, Director of Vera Media

Al Garthwaite is a founder member of the HWW Trust, and a Labour Councillor with Leeds City Council. She has also been the Director of feminist-run social enterprise Vera Media for over 30 years, producing several films and photo exhibitions about homeworking as well as organising events, exhibitions and presentations on homeworkers for diverse audiences, including academics, primary school children and the National Women’s Trade Union Congress. Al has extensive experience of working with women, community outreach and participatory research and production, and of the public sector and small business. As well as Vera Media, she has helped set up a number of thriving social enterprises and is a trustee / board member of seven other NGOs, including the Feminist Archive, Faith Together in Leeds 11, LeedsBID and environmental charity Groundwork.

Catriona Purdy - Trustee

Catriona worked for the National Group on Homeworking (NGH) from 1999-2008, in a range of different roles. Her main focus was helping homeworkers to access their rights through the legal system. She now works in local authority housing.

Dr Annie Delaney, Labour rights academic. HWW Adviser

Annie has a long history of labour rights activism, having worked in the Australian textile union, anti-sweatshop campaigns and more recently in Australian universities. The person’s work for the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) and the FairWear Campaign (1994-2006) led to national initiatives to improve garment homeworkers working conditions. The successful implementation of a suite of regulatory mechanisms to protect homeworkers including, the homeworkers code of practice, homeworker specific state legislation, and deeming provisions of homeworkers as employees in national labour regulation are key outcomes of the work.

Shanta Bhavnani - Trustee

Shanta works as a Writer/Researcher at Ethical Consumer magazine. She has previously worked as a consultant on human rights and labour rights in global supply chains. Between 2013 and 2018 she worked for the Cambodian human rights NGO, LICADHO, where she carried out research on modern slavery, human trafficking, child labour, and gender-based violence, as well as undertaking advocacy and providing support to activists.

Shanta is qualifed as a solicitor in England and Wales and before moving to Cambodia she worked for ten years as a policy officer in the not-for-profit legal advice sector in the UK.