AHI is passionate about co-creation. 50% of our staff and board are or have been homeless and we have a ‘flat staffing structure’ where there is no hierarchy and where everyone is paid the same. In 2024, the UK Charity Commission granted us permission to pay our Trustees who have lived experience of homelessness
Katie Langford
Co-Director
Katie has been an actress, radio presenter and prisoner, she’s a core group member and trustee of the Museum of Homelessness and sits on the board of committee for Somebody’s Daughter Theatre, Melbourne, Australia. Katie is passionately committed to instigating change through the transforming power of art and community. katie@artshomelessint.com
Matt Peacock
Co-Director
Former support worker, founder of Streetwise Opera and Clore Leadership Fellow. He is one of Gordon Brown’s ‘Everyday Heroes’, one of Evening Standard’s ’Most Influential Londoners’ and a Southbank Centre ‘Changemaker’. matt@artshomelessint.com
Natasha Steer
Producer
Natasha is a Creative Health practitioner, producer and facilitator with over 15 years’ experience in bringing people together through arts, heritage and community engagement. She is passionate about the power of lived experience and co-creation, creating accessible and inclusive spaces where people can connect, improve their wellbeing and shape meaningful change together. Her late diagnosis of ADHD has further informed her commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. natasha@artshomelessint.com
Samra Said
Co-Director
Samra Said is a legislative theatre practitioner and cultural producer whose work sits at the intersection of participatory democracy, facilitation and civic engagement. She has extensive experience in the charity sector, including coordinating the Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network and leading UK-wide programmes responding to homelessness and supporting humanitarian relief efforts. Samra is a Fellow of the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts, a Trustee of Theatre Royal Plymouth, Chair of Cycle Sisters and a Southbank Centre ChangeMaker. samra@artshomelessint.com
Becky Schutt
Trustee
Becky is a strategist and consultant in the international creative industries. She led British Council’s Developing Inclusive & Creative Economies (DICE) programme, established the University of Cambridge MBA in arts management and chaired the UK Relaxed Performance Project for people with severe autism.
Beth Knowles
Co-Chair
Former Mayoral Lead on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping for the Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham. Beth is now Policy and Public Affairs Manager at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Holly Jacobson
Trustee
Holly is CEO of Path with Art in Seattle, an organisation to support individual and community recovery through strength-based arts and community programmes for systems-impacted individuals in recovery from trauma. She believes that art and creative expression help us realise our potential as humans and society.
Lucinda Meredith
Co-Chair
Lucinda has an MA from Central School of Speech and Drama, a PGCE from Institute of Education and experience working for organisations such as Cardboard Citizens and Streetwise Opera. She is passionate about arts engagement as a tool for personal and social change.
Rachel Walkden
Treasurer
A chartered accountant working in the Finance team at Macquarie, who were one of the Founder Funders of AHI.
Tom Henderson
Trustee
Tom is a solicitor advocate. He has been active with a wide range of charities, including representing asylum seekers before the Asylum Support Appeals Tribunal, advising on strategic litigation to challenge laws that persecute people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
New board members being announced soon