Rosie Jones is a comedian, actor and writer known for her sharp wit and honest reflections on disability and inclusion.

In 2025, Rosie founded The Rosie Jones Foundation, to empower lives and shift perceptions so that no one living with cerebral palsy feels alone or unheard. The Foundation focuses on improving access to appropriate, experience-led mental health support, while also building community through events and peer connection.

A regular on shows including The Last Leg, Live at the Apollo and QI, Rosie’s work blends humour with social observation to challenge stereotypes. She created and presents Channel 4’s ‘Trip Hazard and Mission: Accessible’, which explores travel, adventure and accessibility across the UK. Rosie also created and starred in the Channel 4 comedy ‘Pushers’, which follows Emily, a terminally single woman with cerebral palsy who tries to use society’s assumptions for her benefit.

Rosie frequently speaks about internalised ableism, drawing on her own experiences and the challenges that come with it.

https://www.rosiejonesfoundation.com/

Kim Samuel is a leading voice in the global movement for belonging. She is the Founder and Chief Architect of the Belonging Forum, a global research, advocacy, and action organisation that combats social isolation and builds belonging around the world. 

Through her work with the Belonging Forum, Kim has led the Belonging Barometer, a first-of-its-kind, solutions-focused annual study on the state of belonging in the United Kingdom, which draws on survey data from 10,000 participants and explores diverse dimensions of connection related to people, place, power, and purpose. In 2025, the Belonging Forum, formerly known as the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness, launched the world’s first Charter for Belonging, a set of principles and practices to guide governments, businesses, nonprofits, and other institutions in coordinated action for building belonging.

Kim is the author of ‘On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation’, an exploration of the crisis of social isolation

and humanity’s right to belong. She serves on the executive committee and board of Special Olympics International, the disability rights advisory committee and the London and Canada committees of Human Rights Watch. She is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), and an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

https://belongingforum.org/