Paperboat was established in 2012 bringing together a team of experienced practitioners from the community, voluntary and legal sectors to offer tailored professional guidance.
Meg Aubrey – Arts and Education Independent Assessor and Evaluator
Meg has a strong background in community based practice, she has been working in the voluntary sector over the past 15 years, specialising in community arts and education. As an Independent Assessor and Evaluator, Meg undertakes a wide range of work for grant giving organisations and publicly funded projects. Her clients include: BBC Children in Need, the Department of Health, the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme, Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company, CoolTan Arts and International Alert. Meg’s work involves establishing robust monitoring and evaluation systems specialising in user led and participatory tools. Meg also undertakes detailed and comprehensive assessments of grant applications and funded projects and is an experienced fundraiser. Meg is a Special Expert for the European Union’s community programmes in the fields of education, arts and culture, youth and citizenship. She is a qualified Teacher and has trained in Participatory Appraisal Techniques with Northumbria University. Meg holds a Social Science degree from the University of Newcastle, PGCE and MA in Development Education from the Institute of Education.
Rosie Aubrey – Conflict Resolution and Development Project Manager, Evaluator and Trainer
Rosie is an experienced project manager with over 15 years experience in the research, development and management of arts, community development and peace building programmes in Europe and internationally. Rosie started her professional career at Hope Street Limited, where she undertook the pioneering Cultural Development programme and continues to be a professional Associate. She has delivered youth arts training on behalf of ArtsPlan, Liverpool City Council, Knowsley MBC and the Liverpool Culture Company and is an Eco Schools Assessor. More recently, Rosie has worked with the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace, Phaphama Initiatives, Y-Care International, Development Initiatives and the Alternatives to Violence Programme, supporting their work on peace and development. She is experienced at independent evaluation work taking the lead on paperboat’s evaluation and research projects. She has considerable experience of outreach work and training working with conflict affected and hard to reach groups and has a strong track record at engaging vulnerable groups. She is co-author of Dialogue in Conflict Transformation: A Journey Towards Understanding and Humanisation (Lesley Lelourec and Grainne O’Keefe (eds.) Ireland and Victims: Confronting the Past, Forging the Future, Peter Lang, 2012) and is a member of the OSCE's Mediation and Dialogue Expert Roster. Rosie holds a Political Science Degree from the University of Liverpool and MA in Conflict Resolution from the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford.
Frances Brodrick - Displaced Communities and Gender Based Violence Service Delivery and Research Specialist
Frances has worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years, overseeing research projects and coordinating service delivery. She specialises in supporting displaced populations and in providing responses to gender based violence. She most recently worked as Director of Services at Eaves, where she developed a number of innovative schemes such as the Poppy Project for trafficked women, a peer support service for women who have experienced sexual violence, a service for women wishing to exit prostitution, and a day centre and specialist counselling service for women. She has worked closely with the Home Office and Ministry of Justice in shaping policy and the Home Office commissioned her to develop service standards for supporting victims of trafficking, and she has delivered training internationally on the subject. As a trusted expert, she has given evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on prostitution, and chaired a Greater London Assembly group on violence against women and girls. Using contacts within the Violence Against Women sector and the Home Office, she successfully negotiated a temporary housing, support and immigration solution for women with no recourse to public funds wishing to escape domestic violence. She set up a pilot scheme which resulted in permanent policy provision for this vulnerable client group. Frances has overseen the strategic development of charities, including the national expansion of Eaves and the restructuring of the St Mungo's Broadway. Frances speaks Arabic and has spent time living and travelling in the Middle East. She has specialist awareness of how conflict and displacement affects women and girls.
Frances has worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years, overseeing research projects and coordinating service delivery. She specialises in supporting displaced populations and in providing responses to gender based violence. She most recently worked as Director of Services at Eaves, where she developed a number of innovative schemes such as the Poppy Project for trafficked women, a peer support service for women who have experienced sexual violence, a service for women wishing to exit prostitution, and a day centre and specialist counselling service for women. She has worked closely with the Home Office and Ministry of Justice in shaping policy and the Home Office commissioned her to develop service standards for supporting victims of trafficking, and she has delivered training internationally on the subject. As a trusted expert, she has given evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on prostitution, and chaired a Greater London Assembly group on violence against women and girls. Using contacts within the Violence Against Women sector and the Home Office, she successfully negotiated a temporary housing, support and immigration solution for women with no recourse to public funds wishing to escape domestic violence. She set up a pilot scheme which resulted in permanent policy provision for this vulnerable client group. Frances has overseen the strategic development of charities, including the national expansion of Eaves and the restructuring of the St Mungo's Broadway. Frances speaks Arabic and has spent time living and travelling in the Middle East. She has specialist awareness of how conflict and displacement affects women and girls.
Kate Aubrey-Johnson - Human Rights Barrister, Mediator and Trainer
Kate combines her consultancy work with her role as Director of the Youth Justice Legal Centre. She is a youth justice specialist barrister at Garden Court Chambers and having qualified in 2001 has represented many children and adults in criminal and prison law cases. Kate has delivered training programmes for Just for Kids Law and the Prison Reform Trust and given expert evidence before the Joint Committee on Human Rights as well as providing expertise on a number of national reviews and reports. Kate has an extensive knowledge of children’s rights law and also works as an SEN mediator. She is the author of Making Mediation Work For You: a practical handbook (LAG, June 2012). Lord Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice, describes her “excellent book” as “breaking new ground”. Kate worked as a youth worker and teacher in England, Kenya and Uganda before training as a barrister. She co-founded a small charity working in Uganda and is a board member for Little Crickets, a support group for deaf children and their families in West London, and she is also a trustee and board member for a number of organisations supporting and empowering children and young people.
