Auntie Ellie - Co-Founder and Chief Strategist

The Squad's Moral Compass

"Welcome, hero. Let's start with a cup of tea, shall we?"

Auntie Ellie is the quiet, brilliant force behind the Scrubbing Squad. Uncle Jamie built the structure. Ellie built the foundation it stands on. For years she saw the flaw in every plan, and said nothing. That was her own great failure. Then came the night Jamie sat defeated in an empty community centre. Ellie finally spoke with common sense. That is how she has done it ever since.

The daughter of a British diplomat, she grew up moving from country to country, watching the world's problems up close. She chose to do something about them in the field, teaching children in refugee camps across South East Asia. There she saw what most people miss: a child cannot learn while they are hungry, unwell, unsafe, or stripped of their dignity. That one idea became the whole shape of the Scrubbing Squad.