Voice, Choice and Home: Tai Pawb Annual Conference 2026

09/06/2026 | 12:00 | Glamorgan Cricket Grounds, Sophia Gardens

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This year, we’re coming together as housing colleagues to focus on what matters most: our tenants and communities. We are taking the time to listen, champion tenant voice, and ensure that everyone’s home is safe and accessible.

EDI at its core is about recognising and responding to each individual’s needs so that everyone has a fair chance to thrive.

Our Conference is a chance to share learning, strengthen relationships and gather the tools and inspiration to drive meaningful, people centred change.

Confirmed speakers

Dr Mena Fombo (Hon), Founder I Facilitator I Film Director I Housing Culture & Inclusion I Hon D.B.A

As Head of Culture & Inclusion for Merthyr Valleys Homes, Dr Mena Fombo (hon) provides strategic leadership to ensure MVH is a truly inclusive Mutual Housing Association. As well as this, she is a founder, a film director, a diversity and inclusion consultant, and a facilitator. She is the founder and managing director of Black Girl Convention and co founder of Blak Wave Productions. She is a voting member of BAFTA, and a TEDx speaker. Underpinning all of Mena’s work is her commitment to promoting and campaigning for equity, diversity, representation and Inclusion.

Professor Matt Wlliams, Founder & Chief Scientist nisien.ai and Director HateLab I Author of The Science of Hate I Professor of Criminology.

Matt has studied hate crime for 20 years, managed the largest dedicated study of hate victimisation in the UK, and is Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University. Matt is widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on contemporary forms of hate and cybercrime, providing advice to TikTok, Google, the UK Home Office, and British Telecom to name a few; and he draws on his own experience as a victim of online and offline hate. He is Director of HateLab, a global hub for data and insight to monitor and counter online hate speech and crime. In 2023 he founded nisien.ai, embedding world-leading scientific evidence into training and interventions to combat online harms.

Euella Jackson, Presenter, Creative Producer and Film Maker I Co-Director of Rising Arts Agency.

Euella Jackson is a presenter, film-maker and creative producer based in Bristol, UK who works across a range of mediums and spaces to push for more diverse stories and better representation across the cultural and creative sector. As a film-maker and storyteller, Euella sees storytelling as a central part of her activism and has supported a number of projects as a writer / director and producer. Euella’s film, Capsule, was commissioned by Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership to explore a Just Transition through the eyes of a young child and their grandmother.

Jayne Bryant MS, Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

Jayne has been in politics since she was 17, and was first elected as the Assembly Member for Newport West in 2016. With a passion for social justice, Jayne is an active campaigner on issues such as health and wellbeing; the environment and climate change; and tackling inequality. Jayne is former Minister for Mental Health and Early Years, has served as Chair on many Senedd Committees, and sat on the Local Government and Housing Committee.