Alison Hope Chair
Alison was appointed a Trustee in 2015. Alison is the Director of the Nisbet Trust, a grant-making trust based in, and focused on, Bristol. She is also an independent fundraising consultant with over 25 years of experience in the voluntary sector, working across a range of sectors with charities of all sizes. Before becoming an independent consultant, Alison worked with FTSE 100 companies in the field of corporate social responsibility at the International Business Leaders Forum, as a major gift fundraiser at the University of Bristol and she was Head of Fundraising at the University of Gloucestershire. Alison was appointed as Chair in March 2025.
Doreen Foster Vice-Chair
Doreen is Director of Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry, one of the largest multi art form venues in the UK and situated at the heart of the University of Warwick campus. The Arts Centre serves the general public, students and University staff. Doreen is former deputy director of Black Cultural Archives, the country’s only building based archive dedicated to holding, documenting and revealing stories/evidence of black presence in Britain. She is also former chief executive of Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham and has held roles at the Arts Council, the Prince’s Trust and in regeneration projects. Doreen is a 2005/06 Clore Fellow and Associate and has previously been a board member of Clean Break Theatre Company. Doreen was appointed Vice-Chair in March 2025.
Karen Drury Trustee
Karen joined the Triangle Trust in 2016. Initially in theatre, halls management, arts development, Karen then went into PR, finally specialising in internal communication. She is a qualified executive coach, working with a variety of global and national organisations. Karen has a Masters in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck, and an honours degree in English from Leeds and hopes to make up the set with a doctorate at some stage. She has been a Trustee for more than ten years for a variety of charitable organisations.
David Loudon Trustee
David was appointed as a Trustee in March 2020. He is a Chartered Fellow of The Institute for Securities and Investment and a business manager with over 40 years’ experience in the financial services sector. Formerly the Chief Executive of Quilter Cheviot Investment Management, he is a non executive director and trustee of a number of organisations in the financial, educational and care sectors and is a member of the investment committee for The Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Jim Marshall Trustee
Jim was appointed as a Trustee in April 2020. A Chartered Accountant, Jim has recently retired as Senior Vice President of Global Tax of Pearson plc, the world’s leading learning company. Prior to Pearson, Jim held a number of senior roles in tax in the UK and US, working at Diageo and Cadbury, where he was also Group Tax Director. Jim also acted as a pension Trustee and was a member of the Finance Leadership Group at both Pearson and Cadbury. He was Treasurer and Trustee of Magic Bus UK, a charity working with children in South East Asia using sport to harness each child’s love of play to teach important life lessons that will, in both the long and short term, help them move out of poverty. Jim is also a Governor and Chair of the Finance, Resources and Planning Committee of South Thames College Group in South London, having previously held the same role with Richmond upon Thames College, and is a Trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Hindpal Singh Bhui Trustee
Hindpal is an Inspection Team Leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) and Visiting Law Professor at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Hindpal has advised and trained prison staff and monitors in many countries around the world, and is an expert inspector for the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), part of the Council of Europe. He was made an OBE for leading the development of new methods for prison and immigration detention oversight during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was formerly a probation officer and editor of the Probation Journal for ten years. He has published numerous articles and chapters on prisons, probation, foreign prisoners and immigration detention and an edited book on Race and Criminal Justice (Sage Publications). His book, ‘What Are Prisons For?’ is published in March 2024.
Clio Carpenter Trustee
Clio has experience of working for statutory and third sector services supporting and safeguarding young people who have offended or are being criminally exploited. Clio has experience of managing a large service at St Giles Trust, which provides mentoring to children and young people who are at risk of child criminal exploitation. The service was delivered by mentors who themselves had personal experiences of issues facing the client group. Therefore, Clio understands well how to run a service for this client group, and the barriers and challenges faced by organisations within the third sector. Clio currently works for the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit within their Youth Work Team. The team seeks to understand why violence happens and aims to prevent it through a public health approach.
Rhia Canady Trustee
Rhia is a passionate advocate for social change who has many years of voluntary experience working as a Young Advisor for Bristol City Council, where she played a key role in a small grants panel, helping to allocate funding to community initiatives. Her dedication to youth and community work has been recognised through several prestigious awards, including The Princess Diana Award for Volunteering and the Young Women Who Make a Difference Award.
In addition to her community leadership, Rhia is a lived experience consultant, using her personal journey to advocate for meaningful reform in the women’s justice system. She works tirelessly to amplify the voices of women impacted by the system, striving for policies that promote fairness, rehabilitation, and long-term support. As a trustee, Rhia brings a unique blend of entrepreneurial expertise, social justice advocacy, and hands-on community leadership, working to create lasting, positive change.
Lauren Smith Trustee
Lauren joined the Triangle Trust in 2024. She is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Lincoln where she specialises in research and evaluation across the justice system. She has led a variety of projects including investigating effective strategies to prevent young people from engaging in serious violence, criminal justice staff wellbeing, an evaluation of probation Commissioned Rehabilitative Services, an evaluation of services to meet the needs of autistic adults in prisons, and projects relating to gambling and crime. Before joining academia full time in 2020, she spent 14 years working in the third sector across courts, prisons and probation. For the latter part of this, she was the performance and development manager for Lincolnshire Action Trust.
Caitlin Tao Trustee
Caitlin is a dedicated policy expert with extensive experience leading initiatives that improve the lives of vulnerable children and young people. She currently works at the Children’s Commissioner’s Office, leading in community and youth justice policy. Her work focuses on empowering the voices of children and young people in the criminal justice system to influence positive change that is informed by their lived experiences. Before this she worked in Australia, where she helped develop innovative policies and managed programmes that shaped the government’s approach to children’s social care and education. Beginning her professional career in family law, she is an admitted lawyer of the New South Wales Supreme Court and volunteered regularly at a community legal centre as well as served as a programme manager for a charity focused on supporting children with refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.
Vic Southwell Director
Victoria joined as Director in 2019. She has worked in the charity sector since 1994 and held a number of roles within the young people and HIV sectors. In 2001 she joined Comic Relief’s grant team and led work there focused on young people, refugees and asylum seekers and mental health and designed their very first sport for development funding programme. After leaving Comic Relief in 2016 Victoria went on to become Director of Magic Bus UK, a leading international sport for development charity working with children from some of the poorest communities across India. She joined Triangle Trust with a remit to take the Trust forward with its grant making and help clearly identify the ways that funding supports grantees to achieve their aims. Outside of work Victoria enjoys tennis, watching ice hockey, living by the sea and playing cards.
Frances Harding Grants Administrator
Frances joined the Triangle Trust in 2023 as the Grants Administrator. She has worked in the charity sector since 2004 for organisations within the heritage and youth sectors. Before that, she worked in corporate sponsorship and events, and cooking schools both in the UK and overseas.