Our Trustees

Saffron is an experienced executive leader, charity trustee and activist, who has worked in public sector policy, advocacy and communications for nearly 30 years.

She has been NHS Providers deputy chief executive since 2018, and between June 2022 – February 2023 was interim chief executive. Before moving into healthcare, Saffron was head of public affairs at the Local Government Association. Her early career focused on influencing European policy and politics, and she started working life in adult and community education.

For ten years she was a board member and then chair of a 16–19 college in Hampshire and is currently a trustee of GambleAware, a leading charity committed to minimising gambling-related harm.

A committed feminist, and proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, she uses her lived experience of sexual abuse as a child and young person to fuel her activism on behalf of survivors and her commitment to equity and justice for women and girls.

Tanya Tracey is a dedicated leader and advocate with a commitment to dismantling societal structures that perpetuate racism and injustice. Her passion lies in demystifying and decriminalising the lives of women who have survived incarceration and advocating for those who are disproportionately overrepresented in the criminal justice system.

With nine years of experience as trustee of Clean Break Theatre Company, two of which she spent as co-chair, Tanya brings a wealth of knowledge, vision, expertise, and a relentless drive for change to her role. Her belief in the importance of centering those with lived experience in governance and leadership is deeply rooted in her own journey, driving her to challenge power hierarchies and amplify the voices of the most marginalised.

Tanya has dedicated over 15 years to advocacy and working towards transformation and justice within organisations such as Women in Prison, nia, User Voice, and Cranstoun. Currently, as the Criminal Justice Services Manager at Birth Companions, Tanya oversees contract delivery and leads a team in providing essential emotional support, advocacy, and group work for pregnant women and mothers in prison whilst campaigning to end the imprisonment of perinatal women.

Victoria Harfield qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC and currently works with a number of small charities to support with their finances, from transactional bookkeeping, supporting fundraising bids, forecasting cash and reporting to trustees. 

She previously volunteered in a women's centre supporting women impacted by the criminal justice system.

Abbi Ayers has worked with women and girls in contact with the criminal justice system for over 14 years as a services coordinator, women's centres manager, perinatal specialist and safeguarding lead.

Abbi is currently Development Manager of the National Women's Justice Coalition, where she leads projects and workstreams focused on driving systems change, achieving social justice and improving outcomes for women. Abbi has developed and managed services in women's prison over a number of years and has worked for women's specialist organisations including Birth Companions and Advance. She is also a qualified antenatal yoga teacher and breastfeeding counsellor, has considerable experience of leading antenatal classes and postnatal support groups, and currently volunteers for the Trussell Trust's North Enfield Food Bank.

Kaammini Chanrai is an experienced Diversity, Equity & Inclusion professional, with a background in organisational change and transformation.

She is currently the Equity & Inclusion Director at Brentford Football Club. She was previously the Senior Manager for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Warner Bros. Discovery, working on content and productions, and prior to that led Diversity & Inclusion at Vodafone UK. Her career in this space started as the Gender Research and Policy Manager at Business in the Community. Kaammini used to work in local government on transformational projects with a focus on homelessness and domestic abuse, and started her career at Refuge, where until recently she volunteered at the National Domestic Violence Helpline. Kaammini founded Gender and the City – an intersectional and feminist website upon completion of her MsC in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics.

Henrietta Imoreh is an applied theatre practitioner with a lifetime’s history of being engaged with policies that tackle the over-representation of looked after children in the criminal justice system.

Her passion for the arts and social justice has led her to set up her own theatre company called ‘Redefine’, which was funded by Battersea Arts Centre and City Hall care leavers foundation. Redefine is a theatre company for young people who have been in the care system. They use the arts a creative tool for the young people to express themselves around the subject matter of ‘identity and belonging in care.’ Henrietta is a public speaker for her local authority and works at Battersea Arts Centre and EY foundation. Her role at EY foundation is career consultant (care to employment).

Laura McIntyre is a leader in the voluntary sector, in her role as Head of Services for Women and Children for Changing Lives, a national charity with roots in the North East.

Laura has set up and developed a range of innovative services for women across the North and Midlands, including developing peer research methodology which have contributed to policy recommendations and policy change at a local and national level. She has set up women’s centres, both building-based and virtually, and has developed trauma-responsive models of care for Changing Lives. Laura is a Winston Churchill Fellow of 2011 and has specialist expertise supporting women who sell and exchange sex, and women who are targeted and groomed for sexual exploitation.

Shani Newbold is a leading diversity and inclusion campaigner who has spent her career re-addressing the balance of diversity leadership and Board appointments.

She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cadence Partners, a talent acquisition and EDI consultancy focused on building workplaces that are diverse, inclusive, and genuinely committed to driving positive social change. She has over 20 years of experience in executive recruitment, talent management, and coaching, both in the UK and the US, and sits on a number of advisory boards. Her energy and drive to address inequality grows stronger every day, especially when it comes to creating fairer more transparent recruitment processes, developing diverse talent, and building inclusive organisations.

Rani Patel is the founder and Managing Director of CALLING, a new creative company launched with a mission to empower voices from the margins.

Prior to launching CALLING, she spent the last three years as business partner and director of cultural collaborations at youth marketing and purpose agency, Livity. She is an award-winning creative leader and has been recognised as an industry voice with 15 years’ experience.

She holds the firm belief that brands can be purposeful, affecting real change at a local and societal level and uses her voice in the media to discuss the race issues within the industry and brand world through her writing for industry and consumer press such as Campaign Magazine, Marketing Society and Vogue.

Lynn Percival brings a wealth of charity and fundraising knowledge, as well as extensive experience from the private sector.

After almost 10 years in financial services, where she held a number of marketing and product development roles in the UK, Europe and Africa, Lynn joined the non-profit sector specialising in fundraising. Passionate about equality, justice and tackling climate change, Lynn has led fundraising teams at Stonewall, Education Support and Rich Mix and now has a global fundraising role at the Jane Goodall Institute.

Shiryn Sayani is an award-winning communications and campaigns professional, currently working at the GLA leading the Mayor of London’s campaigns to make London fairer.

Shiryn has a communications and advocacy background with a particular focus on equality, human rights and justice-related issues. She previously established and led the communications function at the Race Equality Foundation. Prior to this, she started her career in policy, communications and campaigns roles at the Bar Council, after graduating with an LLB Law degree from the University of Exeter. She is CIPR qualified (holding a Specialist Diploma in Public Affairs), a member of the Media Trust’s Stronger Voices Advisory Group, and was named one of PRWeek’s 30 Under 30 high-performing comms professionals.

Lucy has been at RHP since October 2018, where she originally joined as Executive Director of People and Business Services. Since April 2022 she has moved to lead the customer and operations part of RHP as Executive Director of Operations. Through this she is demonstrating how delivering great culture and people engagement, can drive and deliver excellent business performance and customer service. She is a CIPD Fellow and has worked leading business change at Director level within the not-for-profit sector. She has worked in main charities such as the Royal Horticultural Society and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, plus in the professional sector at Grant Thornton. Lucy has also undertaken several voluntary positions including at Amnesty International, Governor at Holy Cross School and been a Trustee at London Cyrenians Housing Association.