Initially,  Mark will be working to strengthen ENORB’s strategic development on a part-time basis.Mark has long experience of human rights, social justice and refugee issues. Mark is currently Founder Director of a UK-based community interest company called Civil Society Consulting CIC which supports the development of civil society and faith-based organisations; during the pandemic Mark has led a team focused on supporting and strengthening faith-based civil society organisations enabling them to continue to provide their services to people in socially challenged ethnically diverse communities. He has delivered this programme of individualised support – ‘Steps to Recovery’ – to over 127 organisations, and worked closely with many UK faith networks and organisations, such as Strengthening Faith Institutions, Ostro Fayre Share Foundation and Faiths Forum London.

Over four decades, Mark has developed an advanced knowledge of fundraising, evaluation, community engagement and review – completing complex and strategic assignments for a wide variety of community, faith and social enterprise organisations and public bodies.