Team / Partners
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Waymarking Team

Waymarking became a Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) in January 2021.

 

Sarah Spanton: executive director

Charlotte Allen: non-executive director

John Hesketh: non-executive director

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Waymarking has a great team of freelance associates to support projects depending on a client’s needs.

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Director Sarah Spanton started her career in the creative sector.

She retrained in urban regeneration and development at University of Manchester in 2014/15, gaining an MSc with distinction, focussing her interest on the value of social enterprises in the local economy. With Waymarking she fuses her project development, management, facilitation and training skillset from her creative and community focussed background with skills in planning, regeneration, urban design, research, report writing, policy writing, spatial and policy analysis.

 

‘We’re all about supporting community members to work in partnership with place-based professionals, whether they’re from local authorities, housing associations, planning or regeneration departments, to co-create healthy, thriving and resilient places together’.

Sarah Spanton

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Places & Neighbourhoods

Waymarking’s bespoke guided process can be a brief intervention or a longer-term project over several years, depending on a client’s goals.

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Some of the neighbourhoods where Waymarking has guided participants towards developing healthy thriving and resilient places are:

 

• Abram Ward, Wigan

• Bilton Grange, Hull

• Gipton, Leeds

• Manningham, Bradford

• Miles Platting, Manchester

• Platt Bridge, Wigan

• Wigan town centre

• Woodhouse Park, Manchester

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Key Clients, Partners & Stakeholders

We've worked with a range of clients, partners and stakeholders over the last few years, they include:

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• Church of the Apostles, Manchester

• Centre for Local Economic Strategies

• CTRL Shift Network

• Coops UK

• Friends of Alderman Kneeshaw Park, Hull

• Hometown Plus Ltd

• Local Trust

• Made in Manningham, Bradford

• Manchester City Council Parks Dept

• Manchester Metropolitan University

• MCRactive, Manchester

• New Economics Foundation

• Power To Change

• Shared Assets

• Space 2, Leeds

• The Old Fire Station, Leeds

• Wigan and Leigh Community Charity (formerly Abram Ward Community Cooperative)

• Zest, Leeds​