Zoë Gray was appointed as the Director of INVOLVE in 2016, after spending 8 years at the helm of a regional charity which worked with families and individuals to design services, improving the health, work and wellbeing of over 5000 people a year. Previously, Zoë led the strategic planning and funding of multi-million programmes of European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) across the South East region, having spent many years developing and delivering regeneration programmes and transnational partnerships for local authorities. Zoë maintains a keen interest in community driven change, and the not for profit sector, and has held a number of Non Executive Director positions on charity, private sector and social enterprise boards. Latterly, she was a board member of the Enterprise M3 Local Economic partnership and the Chair of a regional European Structural Investment Funds (ESIF) Committee. Since 2017, she has been a trustee of the Partnership Foundation Charity in South East Hampshire, where she has spearheaded successful community social innovation and homelessness work.