Michael Birkett has been the Group Chief Executive of the Regenda Group since 2014.

He has worked as a Board Member and Trustee in several organisations over the last 20 years. Before joining Regenda, Michael spent eight years as Chief Executive of The Calico Group and earlier in his career has held senior roles at The Aspire Group and Liverpool Housing Action Trust.

Throughout his work, Michael has been strongly committed to helping people develop their skills and confidence to influence how neighbourhoods, town and cities should be managed and developed to support the aspirations of local communities. He sees Community Threads as a charity that can make a huge difference to this agenda.