Watson, Neil
- Neil Watson joined Substance in September 2007. He taught in west London secondary schools from 1984 before going on to manage Leyton Orient Football Club's Community Programme in 1989. During the thirteen years he was there the organisation developed a reputation for delivering innovative programmes of work with young people in east London. Leyton Orient Community Sports programme won national recognition for its work including football's national Community Club of the Year, the Times 'Increasing Access to the Arts' Award and a CRE Race Equality Award.
In 2002 Neil became Director of the Home Office Positive Futures programme, a national sport and activity based social inclusion initiative and was responsible for its strategic development until 2006. Between 2006 - 7 he was an Assistant Director at the Government Respect Task Force, leading on young people's issues.
