Lynne Akwei-Howe

Crea8ing Community
Social Impact – Winner

Lynne Akwei-Howe is the Founder and CEO of Crea8ing Community, a youth employability service that has swiftly expanded to wraparound support helping vulnerable families experiencing issues with mental health, SEND, bullying, domestic violence, and substance abuse. Her vision is to address systemic causes and not isolated symptoms using a trauma-informed holistic approach which meant growing multi-faceted support services, which influenced community provision across Wirral and Merseyside. Crea8ing Community offers a wide range of professional and community mental health training programmes, coaching, parenting and peer support, wellbeing activities and resources, as well as professional therapeutic support to children and parents, with many becoming volunteers or employees. Under Lynne’s stewardship the organisation has achieved exponential growth, evolving from a grassroots self-funded solo act to a thriving organisation on the Wirral, with +£500k p.a. in funding and a dedicated team of 22 employees and 30 active volunteers, all in under five years.