New Trustee Board Member- Circle Steele

We are delighted to welcome Circle Steele as a new trustee board member!

Circle Steele is a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Wai Yin Society,  which provides support to, and has empowered and worked in partnership with, Chinese individuals and families for 30 years (since 1988). She has extensive experience of working with community-based organisations and feels extremely proud to be a part of one of the largest BME community centres in the Greater Manchester.

She was the first Chinese Youth Leader to win the British Diversity Gold Award for involving Chinese young people in employment, in partnership with Halifax Bank. And she was the Chinese female leader to share that experience of diversity and integration at international conferences in countries such as Sweden and Germany.

She was pleased to receive an invitation from Her Majesty to attend a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in 2008 to acknowledge the contribution she had made to society.

As an Executive Member of various other boards and organisations, she consistently champions cultural diversity on behalf of, and gives a voice to, Chinese and other ethnic minorities in Greater Manchester.

She was nominated as one of the Strong Manchester Women campaigners in the 100th year anniversary of the suffragette movement in 2018.

She has spoken about Wai Yin innovative delivery model and approach to diversity and diversification of services at the House of Lords in 2019.

Circle is currently nominated for the INSPIRE AWARDS as a Woman in Leadership finalist 2020.

We look very forward to working with her!