Who we are

Tipping Point UK  supports grassroots groups organising and mobilising for intersectional climate justice. Take a look at who is building people power behind the scenes. 

Adriana Swain, Operations and Org Dev Lead

Adriana brings over 10 years of experience in facilitation, community organising and co-op development in support of land justice, housing justice, racial justice and climate justice groups, working with working class communities most impacted by the extractive economy. She is experienced in supporting teams to organise and self-manage themselves, navigate tension and co-create dynamic care-based systems and cultures.

Andrew Taylor, Lead Organiser - Fossil Finance

Andrew has over 14 years of experience as a campaigner and trainer with various organisations including People & Planet, Electronics Watch, 350.org, and Friends of the Earth. He currently coordinates Coal Action Network’s campaign to pressure Lloyd’s of London to stop insuring the Adani coal mine, a role he continues alongside his work with Tipping Point. He leads the Defund Climate Chaos work, working particularly closely with partners like Money Rebellion, Insure Our Future and Stop EACOP.

Bibi Elberse, Stop Rosebank Organiser + London Organiser

Bibi is a climate justice campaigner and activist. Her experience includes organising grassroots campaigns that fight imperialism, divestment from fossil fuel production and racial justice. She sits on the executive committee of Caribbean Labour Solidarity and is involved in Climate Action Support Pathway, supporting activists who take part in civil resistance. With Tipping Point, she works as the Stop Rosebank UK and London organiser, providing facilitation and coordinating support to working groups in the Stop Cambo coalition and supporting grassroots groups.

Clara Paillard, North West Organiser + Trade Union Organiser

Clara has over 15 years of experience campaigning with trade unions on climate justice issues and workers rights at UK and international level. She served as the President of PCS union Culture Group for 8 years, organising with 4,000 museum workers, including Green reps. She has supported various campaigns from anti-fracking and ending oil sponsorship of museums to energy democracy & advocating for climate jobs. She has been working with or advised organisations such as Culture Unstained, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, Migrants In Culture and Platform London.

Duncan, Stop Rosebank Organiser

Duncan is a climate justice campaigner organising through the Stop Cambo campaign and has been a key organiser since the campaign launched 2 years ago. He builds on his previous career in education to run workshops with groups across Scotland and engage them in creative actions for the Stop Rosebank. Duncan is also a music teacher and one of the volunteer organisers of Climate Camp Scotland. He is responsible for the Stop Rosebank work happening within Scotland.

Elle, Co-Fossil Finance Organiser & Scotland Regional Organiser

Elle has a remarkable record of transformative, caring community organising with Living Rent Tenants’ Union, FoE and with various co-ops and trade unions. They bring a depth of understanding of what community organising involves and a particular commitment to class justice and reparations specifically. They lead our work supporting grassroots groups campaigning to end fossil finance and our support for grassroots groups in Scotland.

Frieda Lurken, Bank Boycott Campaigner Defund Climate Chaos

Frieda has been a climate activist for the past seven years. During her time at Cardiff University, she played a central role in driving the university towards fossil fuel divestment. She then went on to co-found Extinction Rebellion where she set up various teams, including training, legal and local group support teams, and contributed to the continuing growth of the movement until this April. Since then, she has been involved in various smaller campaigns and groups, such as the campaign against the deportation of Marcus Decker and the Rebels In Prison Support team.

Harpreet Kaur Paul, Lead Organiser - Care & Repair

Harpreet is a human rights lawyer with 12+ years’ experience working in advocacy and movement building. Her lived experiences of marginalisation informs how she works and mobilises for a reparative and holistic vision of climate justice. She has previously worked with People & Planet, ActionAid, REDRESS, Electronics Watch and Amnesty International. She co-leads the care & repair work.

Joe Irving, Tech Hub Lead

Joe coordinates the Tech Hub for Tipping Point UK. He’s self-taught and has been coding and creating tech solutions since he was very young. He designed and created websites and integrations for many campaigns and groups in the movement. He also co-founded the Axe Drax group and is involved in various direct action groups.

Liz Snook, South West Organiser

Snook has over 25 years experience of grassroots organising across a range of direct action campaigns, from the anti roads movement to Colston, via food sovereignty, Plane Stupid, anti fracking and migrant justice. They are one of the founding crew of Reclaim the Power and worked for 6 years as a coordinator of protestor support group Green and Black Cross Legal.

Louise Hazan, Lead Organiser - Movement Power

Louise has spent two decades as a campaigner, communicator, movement strategist, organiser and network developer at the heart of the UK and global climate justice movements. In 2011 she founded the Fossil Free divestment movement with UK student groups before spreading the campaign throughout Europe. She combines a wealth of experience in grassroots activism, communications and leveraging digital tools alongside international collaboration, with over a decade as a director and manager for organisations like 350.org, People & Planet and Friends of the Earth.  Louise leads our Movement Power and Stop Rosebank work.

Rakesh Prashara, North East Organiser

Rakesh started off setting up and co-ordinating the Newcastle Greenpeace group over a decade ago since then he has been involved in various climate campaigns across the country. He was part of the group that successfully opposed the opencast coal mine at Druridge Bay in Northumberland and subsequently used his experience to support the Defend Dewley Hill campaign.

Rona Hardie, Stop Rosebank Training Lead

Rona has been organising within the Scottish social and climate justice movement for several years. At Tipping Point she coordinates the training and development programme for the Stop Rosebank network, providing facilitation and training for individuals and groups within the campaign. She recently completed part-time postgraduate studies investigating the impact that hosting COP26 has had on the Scottish climate justice movement, and now lives in Bristol where she enjoys foraging, camping and any opportunity to be in the sea. Alongside Tipping Point, Rona also works for Transition Together as the Just Transition lead, where she works on introducing justice and equity principles and practices into the work of the Transition movement. 

Rosanna Wiseman, International Solidarity Organiser

Rosanna is an organiser and activist with 12 years experience of being part of grassroots social justice movements, with 5 years experience of paid organising work. Her experiences working with migrant justice groups drives her passion for ensuring climate justice puts freedom of movement at its core. She has previously worked at Global Justice Now, SOAS Detainee Support and Green New Deal Rising and she co-founded several grassroots organisations including London Latinxs and No Borders in Climate Justice. She is on the care & repair and fossil finance team.

Sadie DeCoste, Care & Repair Organiser

Sadie is a climate change researcher and activist with a focus on climate reparations, transformative adaptation, and loss and damage. At Tipping Point, she supports the Climate Reparations Network and the Care & Repair team. She co-founded the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition and has been active in loss and damage movements for several years. She loves gardening and musical theatre.

Scarlett Westbrook, Midlands Organiser

Scarlett is a climate justice activist and journalist and is the youngest regular policy writer in Parliamentary history. She was one of the lead organisers of the School Climate Strikes and set up campaign group Teach the Future, where she leads on policy. Scarlett supports and organises with grassroots groups across the East and West Midlands.

Tarun Gidwani, Digital Organiser

Tarun is a writer, scholar and climate activist with a breadth of experience supporting grassroots movements in the UK and the Global South. His work with Tipping Point is focused on providing communications, digital organising and narrative strategy support to all the networks we support. He is also a PhD researcher in Philosophy at King’s College London. He has written for The Guardian and openDemocracy, and is currently the co-chair of Right to Food London group.

Tatiana Garavito, Lead Organiser - Care & Repair

Tatiana is an organiser and facilitator working on issues at the intersection of migration, race and climate justice. Tatiana has years of experience leading the strategic work of social justice organisations and over five years’ experience in facilitating processes for liberation and movement building. Tatiana has worked with Migrants Rights Network, HOPE not hate, Latin American Women’s Rights Services and Quakers In Britain amongst others; she is also a longstanding and founding member of climate justice collective Wretched of the Earth and co-leads the care & repair work at Tipping Point UK.

Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Co-Fossil Finance Organiser

Yara has been an organiser and campaigner for over seven years. She’s experienced in direct action, was the press co-lead for Labour for a Green New Deal and chair of trustees at Latin American Women’s Aid. In 2017, Yara co-created the ‘Tinder canvassing bot’, which enabled volunteers to send over 40,000 GOTV messages to 18-25 year olds in the 2017 UK General Election. Previously, Yara worked at creative agencies 89up and Small Axe where she managed key accounts, including million-pound campaigns across several countries. Yara is also a published novelist and co-founder of Fossil Free Books.

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