We’re all Made Up
We have a Made Up Collective Family of 20 long-term volunteers who have been sharing their Saturdays and Wednesdays with our community for over 5 years. Some were customers, most are neighbours, and together, not only have we supported our Hackney community, we have also been there for each other through the hardest of times and celebrated the joys as well.
Kiran Kaur Chahal is a socially engaged designer and community organiser who has spent 25 years connecting, nourishing and empowering underrepresented communities to make a positive mark on our environments.
She is passionate about challenging the lack of equity in who activates civic spaces . Her work focuses on supporting culturally rooted approaches that enable people to tackle social issues through food, creativity and well being initiatives.
Wendy Thomas is a dedicated community advocate and has lived and worked in Hackney her entire life. She has spent over 37 years in project development and more than 25 years providing IAG advocacy services.
For the past four years she has co-run Made Up Collective. She is deeply passionate about politics, economics and black history, and has dedicated her career to serving her community. Nothing gives her greater professional or personal satisfaction then being of service to others.
Teshome Douglas-Campbell is an architectural designer, journalist, visual artist, ceramicist and founding member of PATCH Collective.
His architectual work focuses on foregrounding diasporic and working-class experiences in our cities. Aiming to redress systemic inequalities through co-design, meaningful engagement and aiding in cultivating cultures in service of racial justice. His artistic practice draws on his lived experience growing up in Hackney and reflects legacies of decolonisation as a child of the diaspora.