Millicent Wenlock

Millicent Wenlock is an estranged, care-experienced and neurodivergent researcher and change maker based in Sheffield. She works for The Care Experienced Movement, a care-experienced-led collective, and works as a Youth Employment Consultant at Sheffield Futures. She holds a BSc in Environmental Science from the University of Stirling and is currently leading independent fieldwork in Corfu and Scotland, funded by the Royal Geographical Society, on how young people influence environmental policy and campaign spaces.

Most of what Millicent does started as volunteering. She was a Trustee of the University of Stirling Students’ Union while she was a student there, and she has since given her time to a long list of organisations, among them Barnardo’s Scotland, the RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, the Field Studies Council, Ambitious about Autism and Irise International. She is an ambassador for both the #iWill Movement and the Unite Foundation. Much of that work involves advising boards and senior teams on how to bring lived experience into decisions properly rather than as an afterthought. She has also served on grant panels for the UK Youth Fund and the KFC Youth Foundation, and was a youth advisor to a House of Lords inquiry into transitioning from education into employment as a disabled and neurodivergent young person.

She joined the Board at Volunteering Matters because she thinks volunteering is an important part of how society holds together, and because she believes it is a key part of career development, particularly for people who do not arrive with contacts or a family safety net. Volunteering is how she found the sectors she wanted to work in, and how she built the experience that made her current career path possible.