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
  • Daisy Williamson
    Programme Manager
  • Elena Jackson
    Director
  • Emily Lord
    Freelance Producer
  • Emma Colbert-Mooring
    Digital Marketing & Content Creator
  • Helen Kemp
    Freelance Producer
  • Lauren Zawadzki
    Director
  • Simon Webbon
    Freelance Marketing & Audience Development
  • Sophie Kenyon
    Creative Alliance Intern
  • Theresa Kitching
    Creative Alliance Intern

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