Locality is the national membership network supporting local community organisations to be strong and successful. Tony has led Locality since 2014 and oversees all aspects of the organisation.

He has a background in supporting communities to have more say over their local areas in the third sector and the public sector. He led the national charity Living Streets between 2008-14.

Before joining the sector, he was a civil servant for 9 years and held a number of senior policy adviser roles in Government. He worked on neighbourhood regeneration and renewal and health improvement and was one of the original members of staff of the Government's Neighbourhood Renewal Unit from 2001.