Alison has 30 years’ experience as a senior leader in the NHS. Her last role before retirement was Deputy Chief Knowledge Officer for Public Health England where she provided professional leadership and strategic oversight for a wide range of information products and programmes.

Prior to this, Alison was managing director of NHS Solutions for Public Health, which she built into a £6m NHS business unit with 80 staff. She was formerly a trustee of Charity Mentors Oxfordshire and Cycling England, as well as Chair of The Bikeability Trust and of Cyclox, Oxford’s local cycle campaign group. Alison has a diploma in Coaching & Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University.

Belinda is an experienced NGO leader whose career in international development included 18 years with Oxfam in senior roles in South Asia, Africa and the UK. After Oxfam, she held several CEO and director positions in NGOs specialising in humanitarian aid, medical work and education. These included Medical Aid for Palestinians, Lattitude Global Volunteering and AMREF UK.

Belinda has served as a trustee for a number of organisations, focusing on refugees and global development. Since retiring in 2018, she has dedicated her time to charity governance, most recently as Chair of Trustees for Oxford-based charity Refugee Resource.

Bridget is an organisational consultant and executive coach, specialising in cultural change, leadership, and executive learning. With a background in manufacturing, she later trained as a psychotherapist, merging personal change with leadership development in her coaching practice. She works with organisations across Europe and the USA in various sectors.

Recent assignments include coaching leaders in the South African government, fostering collaboration in a global publishing company, and developing leadership at a major UK retailer. She is also the co-author of Leadership Transitions (2012).

Christine Fairchild served as Oxford University’s Director of Alumni Relations from March 2011 to August 2023, leading a team that strengthened alumni connections through events, services, and communications. Oxford has over 350,000 alumni across 188 countries and an active network of 180 branches and interest groups.

Prior to Oxford, she spent 20 years in alumni relations at Harvard Business School, most recently as Executive Director of External Relations. She holds a BA in Asian Studies from Connecticut College and has held roles at Harvard Art Museums.

Christine has also volunteered extensively, and served on various boards, including that of the British Friends of Harvard Business School. She is an Emeritus Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and a recipient of multiple awards for her work.

Following a successful career in investment banking at J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co, Derek has filled his retirement with a portfolio of Chair and non-executive roles for a number of illustrious public, private and not for profit organisations.

Derek lives in Burford and is married with four sons and three step-sons, five grandchildren and two labradors. He is interested in helping people to unlock their potential and has a post-graduate diploma in counselling and relationship coaching.

Jamie spent the first 20 years of his career working in documentary television and the next 20 as a social entrepreneur. He founded the Ethical Property Company, which provides serviced office accommodation for social change organisations, building it into an international family of social businesses owning and operating centres in the UK, Belgium, and France. He also founded the social crowdfunding platform Ethex, which has raised over £120 million for social enterprises.

Jamie has fulfilled many board (often as chair) and advisory roles in social businesses and charities working in food, finance and property including Divine Chocolate, The Project PT, Student Hubs, Community Action Groups Oxfordshire, Pedal and Post, The Real Farming Trust, Zaytoun and Positive Money.

Jens is Executive Chairman of Oxford Innovation Finance, Senior Advisor, Oxford Economics and Senior Adviser, PMB Capital.

Previously, he was Managing Director UK, Oxford Economics, Executive Director, Oxford Analytica and Executive Director UBS/UBS Warburg.

He is Chair of Governor of St Clare’s, a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Director of Advanced Oxford and a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford

Jens holds a MA in PPE and an MSc in Economic History, both from the University of Oxford.

Initially with Oxfam, for the past 25 years Jeremy has been an owner and senior executive of a range of consultancy businesses working in international development aid. He has held primary responsibility for a range of functions including human resources, sales, quality assurance and finance.

Jeremy has designed and managed grant-making facilities ranging from the provision of Oxfam funding to poor communities, through grants to NGOs to support their work, to risk-sharing funding to the private sector. In recent years, whilst stepping back from management, he has devoted time to mentoring colleagues at all levels. He has particular expertise in strategic leadership and organisational development.

An experienced Charity Chair, Trustee and Senior Executive, Joanna is able to draw on 40 years of commercial experience in the food industry and also holds a professional coaching and mentoring qualification.

Currently Chair of SOFEA, an Oxfordshire-based charity supporting young people with education, employability and well being programmes, and of The Greggs Foundation, a grant-making charity supporting communities across the UK, Joanna also provides consultancy support to charities and enjoys mentoring individuals to support them to achieve their potential.

John is Chief Executive of the national feline welfare charity, Cats Protection and Chair of Trustees of Oxfordshire Youth. In April 2025, he took up his appointment as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire.

John’s career has been dedicated to working with and for educational and charitable organisations across the UK adn worldwide, always with a focus on creating opportunities and raising aspirations.

John was previously Secretary General of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation, CEO of Young Enterprise and Career Academies UK, and Director of Education & Community Campaigning at Business in the Community. He has previously held non-executive roles, including Vice-Chair of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement, National Board member of UNICEF UK and he was a Founding board member of Teach First.

Pat has extensive public sector experience of secondary education, including headship of two local comprehensive schools. Subsequently she was an independent consultant in school improvement, providing challenge and support to headteachers and governors, as well as coaching and mentoring for school leaders and advising on new appointments.

Pat is a trustee of a local Academy Trust and was previously a trustee of a charity providing grants to people in hardship in Oxford. She has particular expertise in leadership, coaching, mentoring, team building, and strategic planning.

Peter’s 30 years of experience in the creative industry was developed on the back of a career in photography, filmmaking and video production. He built and managed a successful communication agency, advising clients on communication strategy and producing programmes, events and presentations across a range of media.

Peter subsequently set up Every Sense, a specialist business consultancy helping creative agencies and production companies to grow, prosper and achieve their potential. He works with management teams and employees to co-create a strong vision for their business and put in place the structures and processes to enable them to deliver that vision.

Peter has particular expertise in communication and business strategy, building teams, and embedding vision and purpose within organisations.

Sir Tim Stevenson is a lawyer with a broad-ranging career in industry, as well as in the public and not for profit sectors. He has been CEO of a major UK business and has sat on the boards of, and chaired, both large public companies and local Oxfordshire charities.

Tim has experience of and expertise in chairmanship and governance, across a wide range of sectors, both nationally and internationally. From 2008 to 2021, he served as Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and in this role developed a strong understanding of Oxfordshire’s charity sector.

Tina is a professional management consultant who has a strong track record of building relationships and delivering results.

Over the last 30 years, Tina has worked with the leadership teams of major organisations, in the private, public & charity sectors, and both within the UK and internationally.

She is currently a Trustee for several local charities as well as for Charity Mentors Oxfordshire.