Jason Makepeace Email Address

Programme Director

At Barnardo's, we are committed to ensuring that we are completely open and transparent about our fundraising and spending. One of our four key values is exercising responsible stewardship and we are always honest about where we get our money and the way in which it is spent. As members of the Fundraising Standards Board's self-regulatory scheme you can Give With Confidence, knowing that we comply with its principles: fundraising standards board logo We are committed to high standards We are honest and open We are clear We are respectful We are fair and reasonable We are accountable (see our Fundraising Complaints Procedure) If you would like to find out more visit the Fundraising Standards Board website.

I love starting movements. I love building teams. I love seeing brilliant work delivered brilliantly by brilliant people. As director of Test and Trace's community and local services team, I pushed us to work as hard as we could to support local and regional health, care and government teams throughout the pandemic. We set up whole pathways to support people through mental and financial hardship, and made sure millions of people weren't out of pocket when having to self-isolate. As sponsor of the NHS Covid-19 app, I'm proud that we also built a tool that avoided millions of hospital visits and saved tens of thousands of lives. Since the pandemic, I've been helping Government to improve our resilience to existential threats. Before T&T I was interim director at Snook, the service design agency. I co-led #GovZero, facilitating relationships between the mobile network operators, DHSC and NHS to ensure that online NHS services became freely available for everyone in the UK - even the 7m people without data on their phones. I helped Snook scale carefully and diversely, and supported £6m new biz with the Home Office and the Department of Education to further improve Government's capacity and capability. I spent 3 years leading the transformation of Barnardo's, one of the UK's most influential children's social care agencies, so that it can start to deliver services and life outcomes for children, families and social workers which are fit for the digital age. I grew the team from 4 to 140, incorporating design, data and technology alongside digital transformation. Along the way we put in place new staff tech, new service design principles, and a new culture of innovation, to empower and enable our 30,000 colleagues. Previously, I helped set up the Institute for Apprenticeships, produced 'Exporting is GREAT' as CDTO at UKTI (now the Department for International Trade), and designed the Dept of Health's 2015-2020 digital strategy. And I once founded (and sold) a graphic design agency. I'm a senior civil servant and director who loves to solve wicked problems with passion and empathy. The teams I've built and run have delivered £millions in budget efficiencies, £millions in income for small businesses, millions of hours back in productivity, and millions of smiles on users' faces as they use products and services which are designed around their needs, and which deliver on their expectations. I’m proud to be a vulnerable leader who sets a bold vision, champions equality and opportunity, and empowers brilliant teams to achieve lasting impact.