Flo Berrow

Flo trained through our local youth work training programme here, and has worked as a youth worker for Worth Unlimited for 12 years.
More recently, Flo has also been working for Open Door as our Livelihoods Support Worker.
Flo is passionately committed to journeying alongside people (of all ages), helping them find what they need within them and around them to be able to live flourishing lives.

Clare Mclean

Clare was born and grew up on the Bromford estate, and has volunteered in youth and community work here since 2010, as well as being a long-serving Board member of Firs & Bromford Neighbours Together.
She was our first paid Street Connector Trainee, and now leads a lot of our connecting work across the neighbourhood. Clare was baptised in 2025, and has been co-leader of FAB Church for the last 3 years.

Tiffany Nicholson

Tiffany is a long-term resident of the Firs & Bromford, and joined the Open Door team as a Street Connector Trainee.

Her current work includes leading our intercultural Women's Group, amongst a rich mix of connecting work across the neighbourhood, and she is also part of the city-wide Community Treasure team, connecting communities together to learn and grow in ABCD-focused community-building work.

Paul Wright

Paul has over 20 years’ experience of community animation, development work and neighbour-led change, and has been a resident in Firs and Bromford for over 17 years.
Paul is instrumental in developing a range of neighbour-led community building activity rooted at the heart of a neighbourhood. Paul is a trained coach, and has years of experience in project and people management. Paul leads workshops and facilitates training in Asset-Based Community Development.

Jane Perry

Jane is a long-time friend of Open Door and Worth Unlimited’s work on the Firs and Bromford, most recently as the external evaluation support partner for the Together We Can! project since 2017.
More widely, Jane now works with Church Action on Poverty, using her background in social research to support a range of organisations, big and small, to imagine, enact and reflect on new responses to poverty and welfare in the UK, particularly from a participative, strengths-based perspective. Based in Lewes on the south coast of England, Jane is also actively involved in her local community, through Scouts, supporting local church-community engagement (with Church Mission Society and Chichester Diocese), and as co-founder of a local community response to food insecurity.

Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman is the founder of Space to Breathe UK and works with organisations to bring practical wellbeing, reflection, and compassion into the workplace.

Steph Vidal-Hall

Steph Vidal-Hall has dedicated her career to facilitating groups and teams, in communities and across sectors, so that every voice is heard, and people are able to benefit from all the wisdom and experience in the room.

A qualified Time to Think Coach and Facilitator, she particularly loves working with difficult power dynamics. The session will be informed by her experience of giving everyone the confidence to think well and contribute.

Revd Dr Al Barrett

Revd Dr Al Barrett has been Rector of Hodge Hill Church (a CofE-URC local ecumenical partnership) in east Birmingham since 2010.
He has been involved in long-term journeys of intergenerational community-building with neighbours in the council estate where he lives, and pursuing racial justice and creation care within and beyond the local church community.
Al seeks to engage in earthed, collaborative theological work in the intersections of church, mission, race, class, gender and ecology, and is also in training to be a wild therapy practitioner. Al co-wrote (with Ruth Harley) Being Interrupted: Re-imagining the Church's Mission from the Outside, In (SCM, 2020).