Staff & Associates
DHA has a multi-disciplinary team comprising policy, media and communications professionals. We also draw on a range of associates – from designers and printers, to senior journalists and policy experts – using their specialist skills and experience to add value to the work we do.
Staff
Daniel Harris
Managing Director. Daniel is a communications professional with almost twenty years' experience at senior levels of central and local Government and the not-for-profit sector.
He spent five years as media advisor to Alan Johnson, currently the Home Secretary, and also worked as special adviser to Clare Short, both in opposition and in Government. Leading communications for the City of Liverpool, he delivered the City's award-winning Millennium celebrations and laid the foundations for the successful bid for Capital of Culture in 2008.
Daniel set up DHA in 2000 and has since worked with Government departments, major national agencies including the Arts Council, the Audit Commission, the Charity Commission, NHS Direct, the Equal Opportunities Commission and charities including Scope, Help the Aged, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
He also advises Governments in developing countries on health and education communications.
daniel@dhacommunications.co.uk
Telephone: 020 7793 4038
Jonathan Flinn
Director of Communications. Jon is a creative thinker and a highly experienced media professional. He spent ten years working on daily newspapers and has worked as a public sector communications specialist since 1996. He manages DHA’s Liverpool office and leads on many key contracts.
Telephone: 0151 709 0505
Jim Minton
Head of Strategy. Jim was most recently a senior civil servant in the home office, where he headed up communications strategy for immigration, then crime and policing.
Previously Jim led communications and campaigns for the drinks industry social responsibility body The Portman Group, having earlier held senior voluntary sector marketing and communications roles at Centrepoint and National Council for Voluntary Organisations. Jim has high reputation for expertise and delivery across government and the charity sectors.
Jim has a wealth of non-profit and commercial communications and marketing experience, and has an MBA from London Business School. He lives in East London and is a Community Governor at a Waltham Forest secondary school.
Telephone: 0207 793 4013
Melissa Milner
Head of Media and Campaigns. Melissa has more than three years’ experience in communications and a post-graduate qualification in public relations. She is a skilled communicator and strategic thinker and leads on a number of key health and social care, arts and housing projects. She has managed several successful media campaigns and also regularly produces reports and policy briefings for clients.
melissa@dhacommunications.co.uk
Telephone: 020 7793 4035
Tamsin Cox
Head of Policy and Research. Tamsin has worked in the cultural sector for a number of years and is currently also working as a senior research fellow at the University of Liverpool, on the longitudinal research programme looking at the impacts of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture. She is also an experienced public funding negotiator with a range of successful bidding and project management experiences.
tamsin@dhacommunications.co.uk
Telephone: 0151 709 0505
David Casey
Designer. Dave is a highly talented and creative graphic designer. He previously worked alongside leading design specialists in the North West, including Nonconform and USP Creative.
He delivers on a wide range of design projects including branding, design for print and web.
Dave is the design lead on a number of DHA’s key housing, health and arts contracts, he strives to create bespoke, sustainable and engaging design solutions.
Telephone: 0151 709 0505
Jackie Humphreys
Office Manager. Jackie has more than 30 years' administrative experience in public and community-based organisations. She has organised conferences, events and seminars and is also an experienced researcher, providing up-to-date information for a wide range of projects and initiatives.
Telephone: 0151 709 0505
Kemi Caroline Bamgbose
Communications Assistant. Kemi is an English Literature and Philosophy graduate from the University of Birmingham. She has previously undertaken work experience within the marketing department at Penguin Books and international communications at International PEN a global human rights charity.
Telephone 020 7793 4036
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Latest news
MARCH 2010
***GRANDPARENTS CARERS AT RISK OF POVERTY***
Grandparents who are filling the ‘care gap’ in some of Britain’s most vulnerable families are risking hardship themselves, reveals new report Protect, Support, Provide from Grandparents Plus and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Sam Smethers, Chief Executive of Grandparents Plus, said:
“It’s time the government recognised that grandparents provide the last line of defence between millions of children and that poverty line. They need recognition and better emotional, financial and practical support.”
