Steve Wyler

Biographical Information
"Steve is the Chief Executive of Locality, a nationwide movement of community organisations ambitious for change. Locality brings together over 600 settlements, development trusts, social action centres and community enterprises.

"Steve is the Chief Executive of Locality, a nationwide movement of community organisations ambitious for change. Locality brings together over 600 settlements, development trusts, social action centres and community enterprises.  Locality’s vision is for every community to be a place of possibility, and all its work, on community assets, community enterprise, and social action, is driven by a belief in social justice and community self-determination.

"Locality was formed in 2011 through the merger of bassac and the Development Trusts Association, where Steve was Director from 2000. Over the previous fifteen years Steve worked for voluntary and community agencies and independent grant-makers.  I the 1990s, working with homeless agencies, he ran Homeless Network, co-ordinated the Rough Sleepers Initiative in London, and set up Off the Streets and into Work.

"Steve has been a member of various Government advisory groups on social enterprise, community organisations, and the third sector. He is also vice-Chair of Social Enterprise UK, and Board member of the Adventure Capital Fund, the National Communities Resource Centre, and Thames Reach, and a Fellow of ResPublica. He was awarded an OBE in the 2011 New Year Honours List."

Affiliations

 * Director, Social Enterprise UK