The Footprints Project prides itself on having a board consisting of highly skilled and dedicated volunteer Trustees. We do not normally accept unsolicited approaches for new trustees, however will occasionally advertise upcoming vacancies.

Our Board meets four times a year as well as attending the Annual General Meeting.

The Trustees are an active part of our team, with some Trustees, or members of their families, also acting as volunteer mentors.

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Chair: Mrs Sarah Jane Radford appointed 18^th January 2017

SJ is a Chartered Accountant and worked abroad for 20 years mainly in finance but was also on the Board of two charities there.   She moved back to the UK in May 2012 and completed a Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Charity Accounting and Financial Management at CASS Business School in 2014.  

Lija Broka - Treasurer appointed April 2023

Lija is a Chartered Accountant and Tax Advisor, and is a manager at Evelyn Partners. Her particular focus is on trusts and estates, FATCA and CRS reporting, and life assurance bonds. She is passionate about building communities, creativity and enterprise and has been involved in voluntary and business endeavours for many years. At the moment this includes being an artist, a partner in a family business, director of a community interest company, volunteering with Tax Help for Older People, and involvement with Salisbury Chamber of Commerce.

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John Harding CBE appointed January 2018

John was Chief Probation officer for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight from 1985 to 1992. His last post was as the Chief Probation officer for Inner London and the City of London, the largest probation area in Europe, from 1992 to 2001.

He then served as a full-time member of the Parole Board for England and Wales in 2001 to 2007. John is also a trustee of Achievement for All (AfA) and The Prison Opticians trust.

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Sarah Peppiatt appointed January 2020

A senior lawyer with 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.

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Heather Bland appointed 2021

Heather has had a 41 year career as a social worker and social work manager working in a variety of places including hospitals, local authority area offices and for the Church of England. These have included Salisbury, Slough and towns across Dorset. I have worked in child protection, adult safeguarding and domestic abuse.  My last post was as Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser for the Diocese of Salisbury where she spent nearly 7 years. She is now retired.

She is a volunteer host for the Dorset Nightstop project in Dorset is run by Action for Children under the umbrella of DePaul UK.  She has a particular interest in homelessness and social justice. She is trustee of two other charities, one large and one very small. 

Michael Rowe appointed 2022

Michael is a former partner at a leading City law firm with more than twenty years of 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 7 prisons in the South West."

 Lady Elizabeth Toulson appointed October 2023

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 Appointed October 2023

The Very Reverend Stephen Waine is currently 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 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 Footprints.