About Us
Our Vision & Mission
Our Vision: Communities living life in all its fullness, free from poverty, injustice and conflict.
Our Mission: To equip communities with media tools, to get people talking, listening, and taking action, to improve local health, well-being and resilience.
Our Core Values
Community focused
We know that real lasting transformation comes from within communities. We focus on helping communities find their voice and transform themselves
Culturally sensitive
We know that what works in one location, time and culture is not necessarily going to be effective in another time or place. We take proven principles and adapt them as required
Service oriented
We partner, collaborate, mentor, empower and serve. We do not impose, dictate, control, regulate or dominate
Faith inspired
We are inspired and motivated by the example of Jesus whose life exemplified care for the vulnerable, marginalised and poor of this world
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Our People
The Amplifying Voices team brings together people from various media and community development backgrounds. We are a very relational team and we share a common passion for accompanying communities as they exercise their rights and their voices.
Jon Hargreaves
A journalist by background, Jon has been working in broadcast media in Africa, the Middle East and Asia for more than 25 years, including spells with three major broadcast networks. In 1995, he moved to Uzbekistan to lead a number of media for development projects, where he was awarded a doctorate for his work in the field of education and social development. As co-founder of Amplifying Voices in the UK, he currently supports partners on a range of Communication for Development (C4D) projects, mostly in Asia and Africa
Alex Stout
Alex hails from the Shetland Isles in the UK, where he trained as an engineer on aeronautical communications systems. In the late 1990’s he moved to the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles where he worked for a large broadcasting organisation as a radio broadcast engineer before relocating to the Middle East to head up a media network for the region. Alex has been involved in a number of Amplifying Voices projects in Africa and the Middle East and brings with him a large amount of technical and project management experience.
Stephanie Mooney
Stephanie has been working with communities and community development for 18 years, with extensive experience of working in partnerships and using strengths-based approaches in community-led engagement initiatives. She has primarily worked within the African context, since 2010. Stephanie has an MA in Diplomacy, Law and Global Change, and holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution. Steph is pioneering our Amplifying Community Voices process and advocates for street living children via the Stop Child Witchcraft Accusations network.
Johnny Fisher
Over the last 8 years Johnny has been facilitating audience engagement and project strategy workshops with media partners in South Asia, West Africa and the Middle East. Initially training and working as an electronics engineer, Johnny has since worked as a digital marketing project manager, a church community leader, and a support worker for homeless people. He is currently supporting partners doing community-centred media in Pakistan and sub-Saharan Africa and heads up Amplifying Voices’ disaster response work.
Iain Taylor
Iain’s business career revolved around insurance and finance. In retirement he works with a number of local charities. He is treasurer of Splash, an organisation presenting Christian assemblies in local schools, and most Fridays you will find him in the Amplifying Voices office trying to make sense of the finances.
Alice Stout
Alice has been working in the non-profit and charity sector for over six years. Though having studied literature at university, Alice plunged straight into the communications and marketing sector, beginning with a media network based in the Middle East and North Africa. She now resides in the UK and provides communications support for Amplifying Voices.
Our Board
Terry Edmondson
Chair
Terry Edmondson has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations and is currently serving as chair of the board for Amplifying Voices. Terry brings skills from over 30 years of experience in business as an HR Director, including strategic planning, reward & benefits management, and international stakeholder engagement. Terry is married with two adult children. He spent much of his own youth living in Germany and is deeply committed to serving communities and building relationships between people from different cultures.
Tusa Clark
Tusa Clark joined Amplifying Voices in 2023 as a trustee.
Born in Lusaka, Zambia, she grew up in Zambia, India and Tanzania before coming to the UK to study Economics and International administration, followed by a Masters degree in International Relations.
In the past, she worked for a large international charity in the UK and overseas, in various capacities including emergency response. This work took her to different parts of the world, such as Indonesia and Rwanda.
She currently works as a Mathematics and Economics teacher at a local school. Tusa volunteers for her church as a member of the Parochial Church Council and serves as a governor at another local school.
"I feel honoured to be a part of the Amplifying Voices family."
Gail Lawther
Gail Lawther spent the first 10 years of her working life as an editor, working in both secular and Christian circles, and is now a quilter and author. She and her husband Chris, a graphic designer, have been married for over 40 years, and throughout that time they've both been interested and involved in social justice, particularly pro-life issues. Gail is one of Amplifying Voices' longest-serving trustees, and like the other trustees, staff members and volunteers she is passionate about facilitating and seeing the empowerment of individuals and communities – particularly those who are so often overlooked.
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