Photo by Paul Jones
It won’t have escaped anyone’s interest that there has been a number of changes on the Sparkle Board of Trustees over the past year; not surprising as all the Trustees are volunteers with careers, families, and other outside commitments of their own.
Following Jay Crawford’s exit from the role of Chair to concentrate on his recovery from a near-fatal horse riding accident, and the birth of his first child with his partner Stephenie, long-serving Trustee Joanne Mason has stepped up to the challenge of not only delivering this year’s Sparkle Weekend, but also moving the charity forwards from its humble beginnings as a party in a park, to a dynamic, progressive organisation looking to further the rights of the trans community, and improve the lives of trans and non-binary people throughout the UK.