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.

Before embarking on a portfolio career, Jane was Chief Executive of Helen & Douglas House, which was the world’s first Children’s Hospice. Having started out in the commercial world in Global Marketing she moved into Executive leadership roles for large scale organisations with social purpose in Social Housing, Health and Education. During her 14 years in Executive Leadership in these sectors, she held responsibility for People, Strategy, Performance, Risk, Governance, Health & Safety and Corporate Affairs; building a successful track record for whole organisational cultural, quality and service transformation.

Jane has a passion for enabling people and organisations to be the best they can be, realise their potential and maximise their impact.  She recognised midway through her career that applying that passion in organisations with social purpose can help make a wide and meaningful difference in the lives of the people and communities served.

Jason is the Founding Director of Mary’s Charity; a specialist beacon for vulnerable young people affected by Serious Youth Violence and at risk of exclusion. Mary’s Charity provides mentoring, counselling and gang interventions reaching over 1000 young people per year. Jason creates therapeutic programs & training to prevent conflict and support mental health. For the past 17 years Jason has worked nationally in providing socio-economic support across various sectors, working / supporting within education, communities, government, NHS, HMPPS & Police on strategic direction for violence reduction, community growth, social and emotional well-being interventions. Jason holds qualifications in; Masters in Psychoanalytical Therapies and Interventions, BA Hons in Social Pedagogy. 

Kirtbir Chahal is a policy and advocacy specialist with extensive background in international development and children’s rights. Kirtbir currently works for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. During her three years at the Cabinet Office, Kirtbir delivered strong policy outcomes across six G7 and G20 Summits including on girls’ education, conflict related sexual violence, nutrition, economic security, and green infrastructure.

At Unicef UK, Kirtbir developed the organisation’s first meaningful youth engagement strategy, before moving on to develop policy and advocacy strategies on air pollution, immunisation, nutrition and climate change. Previously, Kirtbir has lobbied for domestic violence survivors on Capitol Hill; represented the Canadian Government at the UN Human Rights Council; and advocated for homeless and at risk young people in Calgary.

She is a passionate advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion, and is well known for driving corporate and culture change on EDI issues. Kirtbir holds a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously a Trustee for Girlguiding UK and the United Nations Association Canada-Calgary. She is also a Raisina Young Fellow. 

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 has been a Director on Sainsbury’s Operating Board since September 2004.  He is Company Secretary and Corporate Services Director with responsibility for risk and governance, legal, safety, information security and insurance.  He chairs 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.  

Jessica Gladstone is a partner and solicitor-advocate at Clifford Chance. Her practice focuses on international law, arbitration and litigation including public law, human rights challenges, and inter-state disputes. She is highly regarded also for her international law advisory work including international trade and business and human rights. A former legal adviser for the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Jessica has experience negotiating treaties, and representing the UK at the United Nations, Council of Europe, and before the European Court of Human Rights.

Jessica is a visiting lecturer in international arbitration at KCL and a member of BIICL's Public International Law Advisory Panel. She sits on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council for Trade and Investment. She is a founding director of Advocates for International Development (A4ID) and was Chair of the board of Rule of Law Expertise UK (ROLE UK) from 2015-2019. 

Laura is a brand and marketing expert with nearly 20 years experience working across multiple sectors most recently within global retailers. She is currently Marketing Director for Accessorize the UK's leading accessories business. Previous to that, she held roles at Urban Outfitters and two of the most prominent advertising agencies in the UK.

Her extensive experience includes developing brand strategies, building world-class collaborative teams, using insights to articulate and align brand positioning and values, and implementing effective marketing frameworks and processes. She has a particular interest in ensuring brands remain culturally relevant whilst producing innovative and category leading campaigns.

Laura has managed and developed high performing teams across social media, PR, visual merchandising, digital marketing, photography studios, events, experiential, campaign, design and copywriting. She has a passion for children (including having three small children of her own) and helping people. Her experience has seen her working with local children's charities on raising money, as well as collaborating with the UN on a global campaign to tackle racism against refugees.

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 senior adviser to Duke Street and is a non-executive director of Ardent Hire Solutions and Delfield Precision Engineering. He is also a non-executive board member of the Department for Education and chairs the Department's Audit and Risk Committee. He will shortly be joining a Russell Group university as Treasurer and Council Member.

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.

Babatunde is a co-founder of Helios Investment Partners and co-CEO of Helios Fairfax Partners. He is key figure in African investment, driving economic growth by connecting global capital with African opportunities. With over 25 years of investment experience, he previously held senior positions at TPG Capital, British Telecom, and Singapore Telecom. He has overseen more than $7 billion in global investments. He holds a BEng and MBA from the University of London and is fluent in Yoruba.