Doreen Foster 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 Chair in March 2026.
Clio Carpenter Vice-Chair
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. Clio was appointed Vice-Chair in March 2026.
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 Vice Chair and Treasurer of the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Hindpal Singh Bhui Trustee
Hindpal was appointed as a Trustee in December 2023. He 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.
Rhia Canady Trustee
Rhia was appointed as a Trustee in January 2025. Her work is rooted in lived experience, which she has transformed into a powerful platform for advocacy, leadership, and change. She is the Founder and CEO of Fly Girl Foundation CIC, leading work that supports women and young girls facing multiple disadvantages, including those impacted by the criminal justice system. Through partnerships with prisons, approved premises, schools, and alternative education settings, Rhia delivers mentoring, one-to-one support, and group programmes focused on empowerment, healing, and long-term opportunity. Rhia’s journey from lived experience to advocate and now CEO shapes everything she does. Alongside her frontline work, she delivers training to professionals across the sector, using her specialist knowledge and lived experience to challenge perspectives, build understanding, and improve how services respond to women affected by the justice system. She is deeply committed to changing the narrative for women impacted by the justice system, using both her voice and her work to challenge stigma and push for more compassionate, effective support systems. Her work and insights have been featured in Inside Time and across several podcasts, where she continues to raise awareness and influence conversations around justice, rehabilitation, and equity. Rhia’s impact has been recognised through awards including The Princess Diana Award and the Young Women Who Make a Difference Award. She also previously contributed as a Young Advisor for Bristol City Council, supporting funding decisions for grassroots initiatives. As a Trustee, Rhia brings honesty, resilience, and a clear vision for change, using her lived experience not just to inform her work, but to actively reshape systems and create pathways for others to thrive.
Lauren Smith Trustee
Lauren was appointed as a Trustee in January 2025. 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 was appointed as a Trustee in January 2025. She 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.
