Positive transferable sets to enable vocation, education and social standing through innovative and practical activities, have been the key to the successes and awards, from Progresses founding to present. Simon’s Afro-Carribean upbringing in the UK has been the foundation of this project being taught Progresses base agricultural outputs before the age of five years old.

an artist-led organisation to facilitate studio and workshop spaces to artists. Since 2016 I have worked as a team member of Progress to help promote creativity to the community through public murals and creative workshops.

My work explores humans and their existence in urban spaces, the conflict and harmony created within nature and construction.

My work has been exhibited around the UK, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, China and Japan.

individuals that Progress enabled him to interact with.

This inspired him to carry on contributing and developing his skills as a project team member. Having moved on to a IT sales position as his main commitment, to develop his executive and communication skills, he still chips in a pair of hands on the more ambitious projects.

His passion for art, animation and design fuels him towards plans of helping small businesses, primarily ones started by other young adults from less fortunate backgrounds, to thrive and deliver memorable experiences to their communities and customers. 

reparation, and volunteers beautifying the inner city, especially on our larger scale, or more niche projects.

He has grown considerably since he  joined Progress, indirectly through a youth offending program, after which he was given the opportunity to put his skills to practice through time bank, getting to volunteer with partners such as St Thomas’s hospital and organizations such as Arts against knives, New Era among others, in the promotion of community relations, skills trading and inner-city self-sustainability.  Junior currently studies Comparative literature and Film studies at Queen Mary university, and works for Progress landscaping, and in the instruction large groups of corporate volunteers in installation art pieces and landscaping.

of Chelsea Flower Show 2016, with the Queen. He now works with us all over London in a facilitation role, be it in, healthy cookery sessional events, or community garden builds. His passion for food inspires as well as his journey to where he is now.

based in South East London. He has been exhibiting in the UK and abroad since 2007 in both group and solo shows, as well as in Mexico, France, Spain, Italy, China and the USA. He has been leading art based youth work programs since 2014 with organisations such as Prince’s Trust, Centre Point and Progress London.

and housing sectors. James has worked across the East Midlands, London and China on projects ranging from a small Passivhaus and our award winning food and public art gardens to large-scale textile factories in operation on the outskirts of Shanghai. He is a firm believer in the process of design and is adept in physical and computer modeling as part of the design refinement with strengths in invention, design sensibility, detailing, construction understanding and making.

(and in my spare time paint them in still life’s).

I studied at Vegetable gardening at Capel manor college and shortly after started working for the Royal parks.

medium to large builds, transforming unused parts for inner city, into contractual standard food/decorative gardens, with local community and volunteers. His industry knowledge has added strength and a finishing edge to some of Progresses latter large projects, and continues to do so.

into our inner city from mid 2019 onwards. His extensive industry knowledge enables Progress to move into spatial design with cutting edge techniques that are being collaborated on, with our Dutch counterparts and wider.