About — YES MAKE

Who We Are

Founder
Joel De Mowbray has six years of experience delivering public infrastructure projects from cycle superhighway 4 to liveable neighbourhoods with Greenwich and Lambeth councils. He has been managing a team of 6-10 people throughout that time and is therefore extremely familiar with navigating, executing and delivering projects within the local authority space. Additionally, Joel’s time at Lambeth coincided with a structural change within the organisation so that stakeholder engagement became a key focus of project development, this was something that Joel spearheaded, the new Community Street Design Team that has been responsible for the rapid delivery of Lambeth’s Emergency Transport response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
On top of this, Joel has been woodworking and carving for the past 20 years. It is something that has run in his family for 4 generations and has culminated in the start of Yes Make. Yes Make draws on experience from navigating the public system to build and improve on existing public and community spaces with Joel’s well-rounded experience making things to create a company that delivers prompt and high-quality work with a uniquely natural aesthetic.

Founder
Morgan da Silva has been involved in international development work at the local level working with small-scale organisations. This work has predominantly been working with agriculture and renewable energy as tools for development. He then spent two years in California working with Tesla on their solar and battery teams delivering battery backup solar systems in the residential market. He has experience with navigating public systems and renewable energy permitting whilst there. In this time, he worked with Californian Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) schools to influence children to become involved in the renewable energy industry whilst also conducting introductory workshops online for schools in the UK.
In 2020 Morgan completed his master’s degree in sustainable energy systems and the transition away from fossil fuels and its social impact. Since then, he has joined Yes Make so that he can put all his experience into the practical execution of mitigating the climate crisis in his home town of London through circular economy construction practice and facilitating renewable energy in community spaces.