Tim was a grass roots trade union campaigner in the construction industry in the late 70s and 80s, fighting against the privatisation of directly-employed labour in local authorities and the use of 'labour only subcontracting', which led to poor health and safety conditions and lower wages. In the early 1990s he worked at the Refugee Legal Centre - a free representation unit for asylum seekers appealling against the refusal of asylum by the Home office - successfully representing many asylum seekers before the UK Immigration Courts. In the late 90s as the level of detention rose dramatically, he set up an award-winning Human Rights organisation, Bail for Immigration Detainees, which sought to ensure that detained asylum seekers in the UK had access to judicial oversight of their detention consistent with the Human Rights Act. This work included an innovative litigant-in-person project for detainees who lacked access to legal representation due to cuts in the legal aid budget. In 2006 he started working with the Campaign against Climate Change. He joined COIN in February 2007.

George has seventeen years experience in research and campaigning and outreach for environmental and indigenous rights organisations. He has worked as a senior campaigner for Greenpeace and the Rainforest Foundation, and as a policy consultant to the German and Papua New Guinean governments. He has authored fifteen major reports and won nine awards for his video documentary work.

Before joining COIN George was one of the founders and co-ordinators of Rising Tide, a national network of grassroots climate change campaign groups. He has spoken and written widely on climate change issues and sustainable lifestyles including articles for The New Statesman, The Guardian, and The Ecologist.

Mim joined the COIN team as a full-time member of staff in February 2007, having been a volunteer for COIN for two years, responsible for coordinating the 2006-07 Speaker Series. She now coordinates COIN training programmes across the country.

Before working full-time for COIN, Mim was a project manager for the British Council, organising seminars across the UK for an international audience. She has also worked with Oxford Amnesty Lectures, organising the annual film series, and with Jane Goodall on the Roots & Shoots programme, which aims to empower young people & educate them about living in harmony with other humans and the natural world around them.

Her passions include photography (see www.mimsaxl.com), mountains, Transitioning (she's part of the Transition Oxford Seeding Group, www.transitiontowns.org) and Poppy the dog. She'll be at Climate Camp 2008, so she'll see you there!

Catrina joined COIN in June 2008 as a part-time Project Manager responsible for COIN's Climate Action Groups. She also works part-time as the Coordinator for Winchester Action on Climate Change, a coalition of individuals and organisations seeking to engage every household and every organisation in Winchester district in meeting the challenge of climate change and realising the benefits of low carbon living. Prior to this, from 2004-2008, Catrina worked in various roles for ARTICLE 19, an international human rights organisation which promotes freedom of expression. While at ARTICLE 19, she worked as the Officer Manager, later as the Asia Programme Officer, managing the organisation's projects and advocacy across Asia and finally as the Advocacy and Communications Officer wherein she coordinated the overall communications of the organisation as well as a number of global advocacy projects. Catrina has also worked in HIV/AIDS and community regeneration.

Antonia joined Coin as a volunteer in August 2007. She started helping to
organise the speakers training and series with Mim and then helped running
the Ecovation project. Since June 2008 she is officially part time
employed as the Ecovation Project Manager. During the last 4 years she has
studied Permaculture and Environmental subjects and has been active in
local action groups, to help raise awareness of Climate Change as well as
human right issues.

Antonia qualified in Germany as an Occupational therapist in 2004. She
then came to Oxford and has worked for the NHS with Learning disabled
adults, as a private carer and is currently employed in a women-only
mental health project for Oxfordshire Mind. She is also very fond of
music, was involved in a radio project and attended an introductory course
in sound engineering and radio production. She has now successfully
absolved a Dreamweaver web design course and welcomes any interesting
project requests.

Sian is a former teacher who has come to COIN to lend a hand with the distribution of the Funny Weather Comic and Yellow House CDs.

Claire Stentiford is an Analyst at Best Foot Forward (www.bestfootforward.com), and is responsible for bookkeeping at COIN.

Brian is a retired businessman who has generously agreed to help COIN with its accounts. He is also one of the two wonderful people behind the East Oxford Farmers' & Community Market, which runs every Saturday from 12-3pm at the Asian Cultural Centre on Manzil Way.

In memory of Richard Sexton, Co-Executive Director of COIN 2004-6.