• Russell Andrews - Chair of the Board

    Russell has had a wide ranging career spanning 42 years. He has been a teacher, school and MAT leader, held senior positions in local and central government and sits on a range of boards including NHS, Higher Education and schools. He enjoys building and leading teams and has particular strengths in the areas of change management, business re-engineering, governance and audit. He is a confident communicator and has spoken regularly in the UK and abroad on estate management and transformation. He is driven by the need to improve social equality and mobility, especially for people with learning disabilities.

  • Jas Athwal DL - Non-Executive Director

    Jas Athwal is a driven and enthused business consultant who is keen to help businesses of all sizes reach their potential by providing strategic advice and practical solutions. Jas has a vast array of contacts in the business world, both locally and nationally, and helps companies reach their potential by providing the links and key contacts that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. After completing his education in 1978, he promptly joined the family business. After eleven successful years, the family business divided, due to the increasing geographical distance between the different business sites. Jas remained in this position until 2010, when he finally sold the business. After a few successful years of business ownership, he was in a position to diversify away from his primary business. Jas was involved in the pioneering “LOTS” (Living Over the Shop) Government Scheme and with the help of Bradford council was able to effectively convert the space over the shop into six self-contained flats. Following the initial property success, he subsequently purchased two working men’s clubs in Bradford and was able to convert them into fourteen self-contained units. The renovation process was extremely successful and drew a number of offers from a range of different housing associations. Since selling his businesses in 2010, he has been fortunate to help many businesses as an ambassador, consultant and advisor. The most prestigious and rewarding positions during this time have been his appointment to Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire and becoming the chairman of local Rugby League club, Bradford Bulls.

  • Neale Evans, Non-Executive Director

    Neale is a business owner and Chairman of the MB Group (UK) Ltd. His business specialism is in sales and marketing and during a career spanning nearly 40 years he has had senior roles throughout the automotive and media sectors. He also provides business mentoring to companies throughout the UK, provides business and careers advice to local school students and is a long time fundraiser and supporter of Weston Park Cancer Charity. Neale joined the Enable2 board to support their focus on social return via investment. He is excited and finds it personally rewarding to be working with a social enterprise that uses its profits to invest and make a sustainable difference to the communities that it supports. 

 

  • Liz Weatherill, Managing Director of Enable2

    Our Managing Director Liz began her career in the NHS in the Learning and Development team, delivering and co-ordinating training for the NHS in and around Bradford. She also taught Business Studies and life skills to students with learning difficulties, helping them develop life skills to live independent lives. In 2007, she played a key role in the development of Bradford’s NHS interpreting service before taking advantage of a government initiative encouraging people to set up social enterprises from services within NHS organisations, which was the foundation of Enable2. She has since gone on to win several awards, such as Bradford’s “Inspirational Business Woman of the Year”, and see Enable2 named “Business or Technical Innovation of the Year 2017” along with being highly commended by the Telegraph and Argus’ “Bradford Means Business Awards” for “Job Creator of the Year 2019”. Liz’s firm passion for helping the disadvantaged makes her crucial in the constant development of Enable2’s technology to support the provision of an increasingly better and more effective service.