Tom is a Founder and Director of Project Phoenix and the Animal Freedom Network. His focus is cultivating and empowering a national network of local grassroots groups to take strategic action for animal freedom.

Tom has helped lead successful campaigns to close a military research laboratory and end deep-diving experiments on goats, secure the closure of three intensive egg farms, close a puppy farm, and expose cosmetic testing of Botox on mice. He also helped coordinate the international Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign, which brought Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory to its knees in the early 2000s.

Tom is the author of ‘Your Neighbour Kills Puppies’, the gripping inside account of the SHAC campaign and the grassroots mobilisation against testing on animals.