Trustees

Tsitsi is a Consultant Paediatrician at Sheffield Children’s Hospital and brings a wealth of knowledge to the Board as an expert in Global Child Health. She has worked extensively in the NGO and development sector with expertise in strategic planning, program delivery and capacity building through training health workers. Tsitsi is a member trustee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), and was a trustee of Sentebale, a charity to support vulnerable children in Lesotho and Botswana. She was Vice-chair of AFRUCA-Safeguarding Children, which promotes the protection of children from ethnic minority communities in the UK, Europe and Africa and, a safeguarding trustee of UK-Med which responds to health emergency responses around the world. Tsitsi also brings invaluable lived experience of the Global South having spent her formative years in Zimbabwe and as a clinician in development work in Ethiopia and Southern Africa. 

Richard Winter was formerly a partner at PwC. He was Global Assurance Risk & Quality Leader with responsibility for the network’s Assurance risk, quality and technical functions. Prior to this, he was on the UK Assurance Executive, and headed the firm’s Capital Market, Accounting Advisory and Structuring practice. He also has had audit responsibilities as a partner on a number of FTSE 100 clients.

Richard has experience as a Trustee of a number of charitable organisations and was appointed CBE for voluntary service to International Development through Save the Children and Merlin in the 2017 New Year’s honours.

Catherine has over 35 years’ experience in Social Work, Family Therapy, Safeguarding and Policy development. She has worked as an Executive and Non -Executive Director across local and central government, the NHS and in the not-for-profit sector. Catherine is presently a Non Exec on the Board of Children and Families Court Advisory Service, Minister of Justice and the Children’s Advisory Committee of the British Board of Film Classification and the Video Appeals Panel, Department of Sports and Culture. Throughout her long career, Catherine has worked with others to spearhead legislative and policy changes on Safeguarding, Domestic Violence, Honour Violence, Sexual Exploitation, Child Poverty, Online Harm, and was instrumental in establishing the Family Drugs and Alcohol Courts in the UK.

Tim joined Sainsbury’s in 2001 and was a Director on Sainsbury’s Operating Board from 2004 until his retirement in 2024. He was Company Secretary and Corporate Services Director with responsibility for risk and governance, legal, safety, information security and insurance, and he chaired the Sainsbury’s Group Safety Committee and the Data Governance Committee.  He is a qualified solicitor having started his career with Clifford Chance.  As Chair of the Disability Confident Business Leaders Group, Tim has worked with Government in shaping the disability employment agenda and in raising awareness of the benefits of employing disabled people.  He was awarded an OBE for services to disability awareness in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List.  He is a non executive director of the Government Legal Department and Chair of the Sainsbury Archive.

Laura is a brand and marketing expert with over 20 years' experience working across multiple sectors, most recently within retail. She is currently Chief Marketing Officer at schuh, having previously led marketing at Accessorize and Urban Outfitters. 

Laura started her career in advertising agencies and has since become a leading marketer with a passion for and strength in ensuring brands are culturally relevant and connect emotionally with their audience.

Stu splits his time between being a private company investor and his interest in improving the outcomes for young people and education. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and then spent 30 years in the private equity industry. He was formerly a trustee of addiction charity, Change Grow Live and a non-executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency. 

Today, Stu is a non-executive director of Delfield Precision Engineering, a non-executive board member of the Department for Education and chairs the Department's Audit and Risk Committee. He is also the Treasurer and a Council Member of The University of Southampton.

Tamsyn concluded her extended term as the Chief Commissioner for the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), which scrutinises UK aid spending, in July 2024. She has worked in a variety of policy and management roles in the UK and the EU, having served as the Director General for Operations outside the EU at the European Investment Bank (EIB); as the EIB's representative on the Board of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD); the CEO of Bond, the umbrella body for UK-based international civil society organisations; and was previously a Senior Civil Servant at the Department for International Development, UK (DfID). Tamsyn has been working in international development roles since 1993, following an academic career in ancient history which involved the publication of two books and a number of articles. She has served on the Boards of Plan International UK, SOAS, University of London and Oxford University Humanities Division, and currently sits on the Boards of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and the Center for Global Development.

Kajal Odedra is Executive Director for Change.org UK, supporting some of the biggest people powered campaigns in the UK - from Laura Coyton's campaign to end the tampon tax to Richard Ratcliffe's fight to free his wife Nazanin from prison in Iran. Kajal founded the People of Colour in Campaigns network to address a diversity problem in the campaigns sector. She is also on the Leadership Committee for Ada's List, the network for women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Independent and New Statesman. Her first book, Do Something: activism for everyone, is published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Victoria is a senior HR leader and consultant with over 20 years’ experience driving people and culture strategy across the United Nations, international development and global consultancy sectors. She currently partners with international organisations and leading development consultancies on people and talent strategy, organisational development, and change management. Throughout her career, she has held senior global HR roles - including leadership positions in Talent Management and People & Culture at UNOPS - leading international teams and serving as a member of the global management team.

Having built her career supporting mission-driven organizations, Victoria is a trusted advisor with an empathetic, human-centred approach to leadership, psychological safety, and ensuring global teams are equipped to deliver lasting impact. She is an accredited executive and team coach with both the International Coaching Federation (ICF ACC) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC Senior Practitioner), and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (FCIPD).