About Us

Berkeley Wilde

Berkeley Wilde has fifteen years experience of delivering work-based-learning, training, project management, fundraising, research, evaluation and non-managerial supervision in the voluntary and not-for-profit sector.

He has worked with Relate, the mental health charity Mind, the European Men's Health Forum in Brussels, and Terrence Higgins Trust the national HIV charity.

Berkeley has been a human rights campaigner and he has set up many community based charities, including The Men's Trust a community based organisation working with men.

Berkeley grew up in the West country, near Bristol. He graduated from school in 1984, he went onto the University of Bristol. He has read Business, Counselling, Communication, Social Policy and Sociology. He is currently training to be a
Psychotherapist.

Zina Bratović

Zina Bratović has been working with black and minority ethnic communities for the last 7 years, with the focus on asylum seekers and refugees. Zina is an active member of the Refugee Forum, Brighton & Hove.

Gary Austin

Gary Austin is a co-founder and Director of Business with Minotaur Communications. Gary has worked in the retail and leisure industry for the past 26 years. He gained the National Association of Goldsmiths Award at the age of nineteen. He then went on to win the accolade award of “Manager of the Year”. He has developed and delivered a range of training and coaching programmes targeted at the retail and leisure industries and delivered these throughout the United Kingdom.

He has strong leadership skills. He has been an area manager, managing an annual budget of £20 million, and an auditor working in the leisure industry, where he created and rolled out stock control systems to reduce company’s losses.

Derek Froud

Derek Froud is Marketing and Finance Director of Minotaur Communications – and also Head of Fundraising for the Royal Blind Society. He has extensive experience in income generation, communications and personnel management in the financial services and voluntary sectors.

As Communications Director and Deputy Chief Executive of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) he managed a 12,000 worldwide membership organisation and was a regular management trainer and speaker for the RSCM. Earlier in his career he headed Citibank’s London press office and later became Head of Personnel for the Bank’s private bank in London and Jersey.

Derek is Chairman of the Esterhazy Chamber Choir and Director of Music at a major church in his home town of Brighton. He is an Old Portmuthian and a graduate of the University of Birmingham.

Micheal Pyner

Micheal is a Director and Associate of Minotaur Communications, specialist in Regeneration. Working in London, Paris and Dublin in regeneration since 1985, Micheal came to his current post as CEO of a Regeneration Charity from project directing the local authorities arm of the award winning Mile End Park. Micheal is regularly featured in national and international press and has developed a model of community sustainable regeneration that has been adopted in several European countries with interest shown as far afield as Japan and Australia.

Micheal was recently described as a charismatic and inspirational voice in the field of regeneration. Nationally recognised as an authority on community based regeneration, regularly speaking at conferences and seminars Micheal also guest lectures on MA’s in Urban Regeneration at two Universities and is a National Neighbourhood Renewal Advisor.

Micheal has worked in a voluntary capacity at the Terrence Higgins Trust co-ordinating their buddy group and latterly heading up THT Buddy Training. Micheal has sat on the Boards of numerous groups and projects engaged in the provision of services around learning and physical disability, age, youth and HIV.

Born at the heart of London’s east end Micheal was educated in London before going on to University at Queen Mary’s College. Micheal started his career in Education lecturing in Modern Political Thought. MA’s in Modern Political Thought and Urban Regeneration completed the academic aspects of Micheals career. Moving into local government, stints in corporate policy, Education, as Head of Equalities and then as Assistant Director of Social Services Micheal moved into regeneration in the late 1980’s project managing the estates displaced by the Limehouse Link leading to Canary Wharf.

Joseph De Lappe

Joseph is Company Secretary at Minotaur Communications. He is currently fulfilling a life-long ambition and training to practice as a Barrister-at-Law. He is currently based at a law firm in Brighton, UK.

He spent ten years working in drama, community-led theatre, Theatre in Education, and, hot-seating, having originally trained in Method performance at the Project Dublin. He also has extensive experience of writing, and facilitating, commissioned pieces for social services, health authorities, and corporate environments.

He trained at Les Capuchins in Paris, with a particular emphasis on forum-led, invisible theatre, and, the work of Augusto Boal. Subsequently moving to Britain, he graduated with a 1st Class honours degree in English with Theatre Studies from the University of Sussex. He is currently on a sabbatical from his doctorate in Media Studies, masculinity and performativity.