Rasheed
Ige

A Londoner, fluent in Yoruba, who has spent the last decade doing two things at once: making data trustworthy in the NHS, and making events run well, from festival fields to his own community days out.

Ask the people who know him and the same words come back: down to earth, empathetic, committed, joyful. He is pragmatic and diligent at work, poised when it matters, and happiest when people are together, whether that is a crew on a long build day or a room full of adults who have just remembered how to play.

Community development is his passion. He founded I Am Finest, which became Finest Foundation, then The Eligible Bachelor and For The Big Kids, taught Yoruba through lockdown and for three years after, and sat on Ebbsfleet Development Corporation's community board.

He tries things. His projects began as ideas he simply went out and did, and he keeps going until they work. He brings camaraderie to every team he joins, and he looks after his people.

Off the clock he likes staying healthy and taking on new challenges. He has run the Big Half, though a full marathon is firmly off the list.