Our Trustees

Sarah-Jane Radford

Chair and interim Treasurer

SJ is a qualified chartered accountant who has worked for over 20 years in finance and the charity sector. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in charity accounting and financial management from CASS Business School. 

John Harding CBE

Trustee

John was the Chief Probation Officer for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and the Chief Probation Officer for Inner London and the City of London, the largest probation area in Europe.

He has also served as a full-time member of the Parole Board for England and Wales and is a trustee of Achievement for All (AfA) and The Prison Opticians Trust.

Sarah Peppiatt

Trustee

Sarah is a senior lawyer with over 20 years of experience in general corporate and commercial practice, advising a broad range of clients, from large corporates to family businesses and individuals in all areas of the law, while remaining active in the voluntary sector.

Heather Bland

Trustee

Heather has worked for over 40 years as a social worker and social work manager in hospitals, local authority area offices and for the Church of England across Dorset. She has also worked with people in child protection, adult safeguarding and domestic abuse situations. Heather was the Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser for the Diocese of Salisbury for seven years and continues to work with the Dorset Nightstop project.

Michael Rowe

Trustee

Michael is a former partner at a leading City law firm with more than 20 years experience of advising on complex legal matters.  He is a restorative justice facilitator with Restorative Solutions Dorset and coordinates delivery of the Shannon Trust reading programme across seven prisons in the South West.

Lady Elizabeth Toulson 

Trustee

Lady Toulson is a Barrister, National Chair of the Royal Voluntary Service and Children’s  Society

School Governor of Charterhouse and Pond Meadow Special Needs School. She was High Sheriff of Surrey in 2009/10 and from 2010 has served as Deputy Lieutenant in Surrey. She is also a Trustee of Not Beyond Redemption and an Assessor for the Hardman Trust.

The Very Reverend Stephen Waine 

Trustee

Stephen is Vicar of six parishes in West Dorset where he has served since April 2023. He was previously Dean of Chichester, and before that Archdeacon of Dorset. He’s also served previously in parishes in the West Midlands, Essex and at St Paul’s Cathedral. He has been a Trustee of a number of charities in the past, and is pleased to have been invited to work with and support The Footprints Project.

Brendan Ross 

Trustee

Brendan has over 15 years' experience working in the Criminal Justice sector, representing St Giles trust at the HMPPS lived experience network, Gfie network, Criminal justice alliance Lived experience expert group. Brendan was joint winner of the 2022 Longford Prize for developing and leading the St Giles’ Trust Peer Circles Project that provides employment services for people with multiple and complex needs and awarded Outstanding Individual in the Criminal Justice Alliance community awards for his work promoting peer-led services putting people with lived experience at the heart of service delivery and enabling them to shape services.