Charlie Weinberg runs an independent consultancy, August, which provides specialist support to leaders, practitioners and teams wanting to learn, improve, develop or just be more aware of their own culture.
She was Executive Director at Safe Ground between 2010 and 2022, steering it to becoming part of the Social Interest Group in 2022. During this time, Charlotte led the charity through a period of sustained growth and diversification including a focus on innovation, evidence and quality standards.
She joined our Trustee body in April 2015 and become Chair of Trustees in March 2017. She stepped down as a Trustee in December 2023.
With significant direct experience as a youth worker and community arts activist, her career has incorporated a broad spectrum of roles, all in the field of reducing social harm and gendered approaches to community building. Charlie’s history includes five years as a senior residential worker at a hostel supporting young people towards independence and two years as the coordinator of the detached youth work Saffron Young People’s Project, which worked with young people and families to influence service provision and policy at local and national level.
Charlie spent six years working for an NGO in Nicaragua, where she was part of the small leadership team of a mass media strategy for social change. She was responsible for the scripts, storylines and educational materials for the award winning social soap opera, Sexto Sentido. As a youth worker, she worked in a wide variety of youth club and community settings and has also worked as a drugs counsellor, a project manager for Clean Break theatre company and an Assistant Producer on a series of short films for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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