Our Team

Our team consists of our board of directors and our inclusive management committee, otherwise known as the You Can Check It Out Team:

 

Check It Out Team Members
Ruth Brannan Ruth – Lover of Bikes, co-founder of You Can Bike TooYou Can Super Powers:

  • making big ideas easier to understand
  • supporting people to believe in the importance of their ideas

The thing I love about being a member of You Can is all the ideas we all bring! And being open to sharing them and changing them as we talk… we “grow” ideas!

 Aaran Aaran – Co-founder of You Can Bike TooYou Can Super Powers:

  • having great ideas
  • I’m always happy (and it’s kind of infectious!)

The thing I love about being a member of You Can is meeting up with a great group of people to make a difference. I also love the socials and getting to know lots of people!

You may be surprised to know I’m a great cook and I love cooking!

Angela – Member of the You Can Bike Too project teamYou Can Super Powers:

  • asking questions to help people understand better
  • talking to people and making them feel welcome
  • motivating people to take action!

The thing I love about being a member of You Can is making decisions about how we spend our money and giving my opinion.

You may be surprised to know I learned to ride a bike for the first time in 2011!

Tracy

You Can Super Powers:
  • organising everyone (I have the best memory for dates!)
  • thinking carefully before giving ideas
  • understanding how other people feel
  • making people laugh

The thing I love about being a member of You Can is meeting up with everyone.

You might be surprised to know that I’m also a member of the SixPack DJs –  where my name is DJ Star!

Ellie – Believer in People Power, Editor of the Community Lovers’ Guide to Cambridge

You Can Super Powers:
  • having the courage to ask difficult questions and make others think
  • enthusiasm to get involved in my community
  • getting others excited to get involved in their community!

The thing I love about being a member of You Can is having a great space to develop our personal interests, skills and talents at the same time as developing You Can.

You might be surprised to know I also dance tango!

 Our Board of Directors:
Lou – Director of Opportunities

You Can Super Powers:
  • Seeing what others can’t and supporting the discovery of opportunities…if you’re ever having one of those stuck moments, give me a call!
  • Asking good questions
  • Sparking ideas and alternative options

The thing I love about being part of You Can is the sense that we can do anything!

You may be surprised to know that I also take photos and post them here.

Mel – Director of All Things Geeky

You Can Super Powers:
  • My special pair of geeky glasses that can see into the future – get an idea in my head, and I can see what it would look like already working!
  • Impossible is not in my vocabulary!
  • Technology and connecting people – which equals super duper excited Geek Power!

The thing I love about being part of You Can is the people, the community. It’s like a lost and found of people who can reconnect you with being alive.

You may be surprised to know that my kryptonite is self-doubt when I work alone too long. I thrive on working alongside others both off- and on- line!