HCR UK started operating as Amplifying Voices UK in Jan 2021

Amplifying Voices (UK). We equip communities with media tools to get people talking, listening and taking action.

We facilitate community consultations and offer training workshops for community-centred media activities that promote health, build peace, empower disadvantaged communities and respond to natural disasters. We provide mentoring to partners who request it to support long term sustainability. We want to see communities flourish - living life in all its fullness.

Founded as HCR UK in 2013, we changed our name to Amplifying Voices (UK) in Jan 2021. We currently support partner-led projects in India and several countries in Africa. We also work closely with our sister organisation Amplifying Voices (Pakistan). Our team brings together people from various media, and community development backgrounds. We are a very relational team and we share a common passion for accompanying communities as they exercise their rights and their voices.

In 2019 Amplifying Voices UK provided team to deploy as First Response Radio trainer-responders. Jon and Johnny supported a community near Beira, Mozambique to set up a temporary FM station and restore communications after Cyclone Idai.

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Jon Hargreaves – UK

A journalist by background, Jon has been working in broadcast media in Africa, the Middle East and Asia for more than 25 years, including spells with three major broadcast networks. In 1995, he moved to Uzbekistan to lead a number of media for development projects, where he was awarded a doctorate for his work in the field of education and social development. As co-founder of HCR in the UK, he currently supports partners on a range of Communication for Development (C4D) projects, mostly in Asia and Africa

Alex Stout – UK

Alex hails from the Shetland Isles in the UK, where he trained as an engineer on aeronautical communications systems. In the late 1990’s he moved to the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles where he worked for a large broadcasting organisation as a radio broadcast engineer before relocating to the Middle East to head up a media network for the region. Alex has been involved in a number of HCR projects in Africa and the Middle East and brings with him a large amount of technical and project management experience.

Stephanie Mooney – UK

Stephanie has been working with communities and community development for 18 years, with extensive experience of working in partnerships and using strengths-based approaches in community-led engagement initiatives. She has primarily worked within the African context, since 2010. Stephanie has an MA in Diplomacy, Law and Global Change, and holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution. Steph is pioneering our Amplifying Community Voices process and advocates for street living children via the Stop Child Witchcraft Accusations network.

Johnny Fisher – UK

Over the last 6 years Johnny has been facilitating audience engagement and project strategy workshops with media partners in South Asia, West Africa and the Middle East. Initially training and working as an electronics engineer, Johnny has since worked as a digital marketing project manager, a church community leader, and a support worker for homeless people. He is currently supporting partners doing community centred media in Pakistan and sub-Saharan Africa and heads up HCR’s disaster response work.

Iain Taylor – UK

Iain’s business career revolved around insurance and finance. In retirement he chairs Family Foundations Trust, a local charity that manages Dalesdown (a Christian residential centre catering for schools, Churches and youth groups) and which oversees Christian Worldwide (a country wide association of Christian children’s workers). He is treasurer of Splash, an organisation presenting Christian assemblies in local schools, and most Fridays you will find him in the HCR office trying to make sense of the finances.