Our board of trustees brings a wealth of skills, experience and wisdom to The Footprints Project.  All our trustees are volunteers and play an active part in our team. Some are also volunteer mentors.

Chair | Sarah-Jane Radford

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. 

Treasurer | Lija Broker

Lija is a chartered accountant and tax advisor, and a manager at Evelyn Partners financial advisory service. Lija is passionate about building communities, creativity and enterprise and has been involved in voluntary and business endeavours for many years. 

John Harding CBE

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 

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

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

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 

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

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.