Josie Naughton is the CEO and co-Founder of Choose Love, a humanitarian organisation founded in August 2015 in response to the largest migration of people fleeing war, persecution and climate change that Europe had seen since WW2.  

Within 3 months of being founded, Choose Love had raised over £1M and established itself across the front lines of the crisis as being the biggest grassroots provider of aid to the refugee crisis in Europe.  Six years later Choose Love is a globally recognised brand working in 15 countries, funding 150 grassroots organisations and has raised over £40M to date- it is a brand that not only represents the organisation, but a movement which holds the values/ ideology that so many people across the world feel is their own- one which ‘normalised helping human beings, no matter who they are or where they’re from.  This is an extraordinary thing in itself, but even more so when you understand the story of the person who has quietly, bravely, tirelessly led the organisation since she founded it.  Josie Naughton came to this role with no previous experience of the humanitarian sector at all, she had worked as a nanny, in bars and in music management till, like so many people at the time was at home one day seeing the horror of the crisis unfolding in Europe and felt compelled to take whatever action she could to help…. Having no idea how that action was going to change her own life and the life of so many other people. 

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