Team

The National Festival of Making is curated, produced and delivered by the non-profit community interest company, Festival of Making CIC.

Based in Blackburn, we’re a small team with a passion for arts and culture, and you can find the contact information for our core team of staff and freelancers below.

To bring the National Festival of Making to life, we also acknowledge the support of our Board of Non-Executive Directors as well as the wider network of volunteers, production and delivery teams, and collaborators.

If you have a general enquiry, please drop us an email at info@festivalofmaking.co.uk

Meet the Team

Ayesha Mall

Bookkeeper & Administrator

Contact: ayesha@festivalofmaking.co.uk

Daisy Williamson

Programme Manager

Contact: daisy@decopublique.co.uk

Elena Jackson

Director

Contact: elena@decopublique.co.uk

Emily Lord

Freelance - Producing

Contact: emily@festivalofmaking.co.uk

Emma Colbert-Mooring

Digital Marketing & Content Creator

Contact: emma@decopublique.co.uk

Helen Kemp

Freelance - Producing

Contact: helen@festivalofmaking.co.uk

Lauren Zawadzki

Director

Contact: lauren@decopublique.co.uk

Simon Webbon

Freelance - Marketing & Audience Development

Contact: simon@festivalofmaking.co.uk 

Sophie Kenyon

Creative Alliance Intern

Contact: sophie@festivalofmaking.co.uk

Board of Directors

  • Claire Mander, Non-Executive Board Member
  • Dr Carly Henderson, Non-Executive Board Member
  • Elena Jackson, Executive Director
  • Jamie Holman, Non-Executive Board Member
  • Lauren Zawadzki, Executive Director
  • Rachel Cunningham Clark, Non-Executive Board Member
  • Rosy Greenlees OBE, Chair
  • Salma Chaudhry, Non-Executive Board Member (Finance Board)
  • Wayne Hemingway MBE, Non-Executive Board Member & Co-Founder
  • Zainab Rawat, Non-Executive Board Member

National Festival of Making places the people and manufacturing front and centre, with stories shared, knowledge passed on, and the immense fullness that comes from a vast array of projects.

Festival Artist

I think the Festival is brilliant – the combination of ambition, embeddedness and such a collectively positive atmosphere over the whole weekend – I don’t know of anything else like it.

Festival Artist