About us

Waltham Forest Echo staff team
Clockwise from top left; Marco Marcelline, David Floyd, Josh Mellor, Jonathan Duncan, Maia Wolf, Klaudia Kiss

The Echo was established in 2014 as an independent community newspaper for the London borough of Waltham Forest. We publish monthly and distribute 15,000 free copies via cafes, pubs, community spaces, railway stations, places of worship, and many other places.

The aim of the Echo is to promote the work of local community organisations and voluntary groups, as well as provide a platform for local people to contribute and raise important issues. Through our journalism we also help to hold authority to account.

We are funded by advertising and the generosity of our supporters; all income is spent on the continuing production of the paper. If you would like to help support us please find out more about our supporter scheme or consider purchasing an advertisement for your organisation. You are also welcome to write for us about projects you are involved with, campaigns you are running, or events you are organising.

Contact us

Call: 020 8521 7956
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: /WalthamForestEcho
Post: Waltham Forest Echo, The Mill 7-11 Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, London E17 7HA
Twitter: @WFEcho

Our team

Publisher: David Floyd
Editor: Marco Marcelline
Local Democracy Reporter: Josh Mellor
Designer: Jonathan Duncan
Sales Manager: Klaudia Kiss

Our owners

Waltham Forest Echo is published by Social Spider CIC on behalf of WFWellComm CIC, a social enterprise formed by charities and social enterprises based in Waltham Forest. The WFWellComm management board comprises: David Floyd (Social Spider), Tom Ruxton (HEET), Helen Tredoux (Community Transport Waltham Forest). The member organisations of WFWellComm are: Community Transport Waltham Forest, Social Spider, HEET.

Social Spider also publishes north-east London newspapers Haringey Community Press, Enfield Dispatch, Newham Voices, Barnet Post and news website EC1 Echo.

Our supporters

Darrel Hunneybell, David Hamilton, Chris Lemin, David Gardiner, Jean Duggleby, Michael Grimshaw, Dexter Coles, Roland Karthaus, Graham Millington, Renetta Neal, Graham Larkbey, Paul Schneider, Deri Jones, Scott Davies, Madeleine Munday, Ian Cadogan, Lee Mitchell, Pat Stannard, Paul Scaife, Irena Souroup, Jon Dalladay, David McDade, Community Counts UK, Saradadevii Hull-Jurkovic, Claire Weiss, (Alfred) George Clarke – KNOWN AS GEORGE, Ben Marlow, Creative Works, Carmen Trachenko, Transition Leytonstone, Clem Cowton, Linda Ridgers-Waite, Stephanie Waterman, Hugh Grant Peterkin, Alke Schmidt, Keith Segal, Daniel Stanley, Sarah Jones, Bob Sullivan, Jo Pinney, Andrew Diamond, James Wragg, Doreen Harding, Miranda Grell, Jawed Akhtar, Jean Anderson, Katherine Green, Shona Mackintosh, Laonikos Psimikakis, Joanna Moncrieff, Steve Cushion, Namir Shabibi, Andrew Boyd, The Digital Story Company, Lora Parkes, Tiffany-Louise Bird, Sarah McCulloch, Amy Rixon, Holly Wilkins, Steve Roffey, Caitlin McKiernan, Ruth Goldsmith, Kate Bohdanowicz, Kizzy Gardiner, Louis Wallinger, Peter Brennan, Anne McKenna, Clare Thomas, Tom Thompson, Barbara Korner, Lucy Birchenough, Sam Brewster, Carolyn Difalco, Jonathan Weymer, Maura Wilding, Steven Scorer, Paul Dart, Allyiah Walcott, Philip Hall, Debra Antwi, Amer Saad, Eduardo Regalado, Andrew Johns, Robert Bell, Claudia Hillaire, Mike Lanchin, Ben Holt, Martin Goodsell, Jo Fletcher, Darren Kneller, Salaheddin AbuEin, George T Goodchild, William Slater, Adam Shone, Jill Hasler, Paul Clements, Alexandra Martinelli, Thomas Ableman, Matt Bennett, Wendy Wood, Gary Anderson, John Hugill, Victoria Crabb, Richard Hughes, Michael Campbell, Bryony Forde, Matthew Rodriguez, Dara Maguire, Alex Wilson, Richard Campbell, Ben Plant, Rossalyn Warren, Saskia Rombach, Gail Courtney, Ruth Kosminsky, Ryan de Ste Croix, Chris Radley, Louisa Ackermann, John Field, Ollie Daw, Justin Tilley, Carl Antbring, Felicity Hall, Tristan Moyle, Mary Seabrook, Joyce Quarrie, Simon Cook, Flora Fyfe-Graham, Elaine Hoctor, Jennifer Crampton, James Mayne, Rob Plant, Ciaran O’Connor, Peter Baker, Tanja Nielsen, Darren Lawrence, Emily Emmott, Roger Huddle, Dan Browne, Sophy Harper, Adrian Stannard, Lily Nelson, Sonia Fletcher, Terence Button-Sands, Ellie Dawes, Derrick Hibbett, Justina Forristal, David Cato, Anne Strudwick, Mark Brown, Nick Dovey, Christina Carè, Jon Parker-Dean, Sophie & John deGraft-Johnson, Rhod Morgan, Steve Bloomfield, Abigail Ross, Ruth Parmessur, Albert Carter-Phillips, Mary Burnett, Simon Thompson, Niklas Friedberg, Angie Tillyer, Helen Porter, Sybil Ritten, Rob Skipwith, James Baines, Graham Norman, Alex Maws, Rosio Cafarelli, John Gilbert, Roy Sutton, Matt Button, Karen Ruddock, Alistair Scott, Jane Tilson, Liam Jones, Sarah Jones, Hilda Varley, Emily Parsonage, Elisa Williams, Lisa Lisker, Jason Halverson, Alex Lee, Lloyd Purnell, Katherine Stokes, Catherine Tildesley Mears, Richard Thompson, Megan Cupid and Ed Torpey, Jonny Davies, Carolyn Axtell, pam williams, Esther Neslen, Cranston Watts, Rachael Castell, Martin Riches, Daniel Garay, Roland Zell, David Boote, Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, Deborah Nash, Steve Lambert, Helen Weighell, Ines Nastali, Lydia Noon, Mark and Laura McCormack, Mary Logan, Claire Lee Shepherd, Thomas Greenhill, Marisa Takom, Annie Constable, Tom Penn, Mette Isaksen, Tony Lawlor, Joseph Clift, Akhtarul Haque, Jane McCormick, Jon Seymour Jr., Scott Rodgers, Linda Green, Claire Hambleton, Clive Power, Lesley Finlayson, Lewis Robinson, David O’Driscoll, Andrew Cole, Paul Gasson, Tom Belger, Irena Chudzio, Angela Shek, John Leeming, Mike Bartlett, Fiona Johnson, Delroy Peters, Anoushka Huntington-Bowles, Natasha McFadzean, Louise Krzan, Daniel Bowman, Diana Wellings, Richard Bagley, Robert Gay, Michael Parker, Caramel Quin, Laurence Palfreyman, Kenneth Driscoll, WIILMA (WIILMA TEAM), Abigail Dyer, Roland Rance, Rob Watson, Michael Wiseman, Christopher Brody, Sarah Campbell, George Harris, Matthew Wyatt, Stephen Beckett, Chloe Mead, Janet Trench, Amy Keegan, Jane Leaker, Smaine Hadjadj, Jen Kim, Albert Carter Phillips, Sarah Fairbairn, Abigail Woodman, Fred Harrison, Peter O’Kane, Tony Lobo, Tiffany-Louise Bird, Andrew Prescott, Louise Sheppey, Nicholas Smith, Carla Grande, Fatima Iftikhar, Nicholas McGrath, Tigerlily Clarke, Sam Humphries, Fatemah Abidi, Linda Williamson, Constance OConor, Mathieu de Kruijf, Alis Templeton, Andy Simons, Philip Gill, Tiffany-Louise Bird, Pierre Raffin, ros kane, Linda Bean, James Riley, Thomas Rodliffe, Carole Sturdy, James Coen, Jane Connor, Philip Wray.

Supporter organisations

Philip Wray

Complaints

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Waltham Forest Echo is a member of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso). For more information on our complaints policy and how to make a complaints click here.