Over 25 years of experience in education, developing entrepreneurship programmes for students and adult learners in the community and the creative sector. Former member of the Board of Governors at the University for the Creative Arts and Assistant Director for Research of the University for the Creative Arts. Before then Assistant Director of the Centre for Enterprise and Business Development and Director of e-Novate Consultancy Ltd. Initiator and founding member, Director and Board Director of The Margate School.​

Ed studied Computer Science at the University of Kent including a year in
industry at Intel in the Engineering Computing department. Following this he returned to Intel as a graduate working in Shannon, Ireland. He has since returned to the UK and is involved in a number of local community projects including supporting IT at The Margate School.

Ruyin Nabizadeh is an Iranian visual artist and curator based in Margate and is a member of The Margate School community. His practice includes installation, text and sound and focuses on deep histories, particularly hierarchies within cultural production and the intersection of queerness, hospitality within representational traditions. Ruyin investigates queer-feminist strategies expanding aesthetic traditions to include more voices and perspectives. He is interested in facilitating newer forms of identification/ disidentification untouched by dominant power structures; cultivating polyvocality and respected differences.
Ruyin received his BA in History of Art and Fine Art and his MA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2019, with research in Post-colonial Artistic Positions and Modalities of Representation. He is currently a researcher at Azad Gallery (Tehran) as well as being a founding member of the artistic collective Bambi Woods, Space 52 and Ergo Space (Athens).

Dominic Rose is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Margate. Using Photography and a range of found materials, he focuses on the interaction between humans and the environment, order and chaos, the sublime and the mundane. Particularly interested in the politics around resources and consumerism, his work illustrates the tension between our growing demand for resources and the interplay with the natural world