Tippa Naphtali

CATALYST TEAM MEMBER

Tippa holds lead responsibility for Catalyst 4 Change’s community-based services which include advocacy, skills development, mentoring drop-in services, governance training and others.

He also oversees back-office and governance processes and provides line management of any core and sessional staff within our community-based services.

Position: Director/Central Services & Development Director

Contact Tippa

Email: tippa.naphtali@catalyst4change.org.uk

Telephone: 07874 926 246 or 0844 884 3318 (leave voice message)

Tippa's Background

Tippa has been active in the community for over four decades across a broad range of disciplines. In 1978 shortly after leaving school, along with a group of his peers, Tippa helped to develop and lead the Negus Youth Collective, a pioneering youth-led arts and culture community project based in Birmingham.

Tippa went on to be involved in London-based projects and organisations over 26+ years spanning performing arts, youth projects, homelessness, HIV, food projects, mental health and counselling services.

He has chaired several local and national organisations, starting his own community groups and social enterprises; and providing support to other similar organisations, social enterprises and businesses.

He is also well known across the UK and abroad for his campaigning work supporting the call for police, penal and mental health reforms, for an end to custody deaths / killings / abuse, wrongful convictions and the brutality of torture, genocide and capital punishment.

Tippa is a founding member of Catalyst 4 Change, campaign group 4WardEverUK and National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund. He's also an active member of The People's Tribunal on Police Killings, and has acted in an advisory capacity to the West Midland Police Independent Advisory Group on Mental Health amongst others.