Award judges

Conflict Resolution

Carolyn Hayman OBE

Since 2004, Carolyn has been Chief Executive of Peace Direct which supports and promotes the work of people seeking to use non-violent methods to resolve conflict. Carolyn has degrees in Classics and Philosophy (Cambridge) and Development Economics (SOAS.) She has worked in the civil service (DfID and the Cabinet Office) and the private sector, as a consultant and Joint Managing Director of the Korda Seed Capital Fund. In 1996 Carolyn became Chief Executive of the Foyer Federation, of which Sheila McKechnie was then a Trustee. The Federation, which provides accommodation, training and employment to some 10,000 disadvantaged young people a year, saw a near tenfold increase in its turnover during her tenure.

Carolyn has sat on numerous education related committees, most recently the Tomlinson Committee. She has two daughters and is a keen singer and swimmer, and member of the Religious Society of Friends.

Helen Drewery

Helen Drewery, General Secretary of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), has worked in the central offices of British Quakers for nearly 25 years. During that time she has managed programmes on many subjects, including criminal justice, HIV/AIDS and the Alternatives to Violence Project. Most recently, she helped to set up and launch Circles of Support and Accountability in the UK, an award-winning project which uses trained volunteers to reduce the chances of released sex offenders re-offending. QPSW's current work includes Ecumenical Accompaniment in Palestine/Israel, peace education, conciliation work in Nagaland and Turning the Tide (training in nonviolence). Helen has served as a trustee of several charities, and as chair of two.

Terry Waite CBE

Terry has extensive internatinal experience in development and conflict resolution projects, including humanitarian programmes throughout Africa. He has also negotiated the release of hostages held in the Middle East. His work resulted in his own captivity for four years in Lebanon. He has authored several books, one of which was an international best seller and lectures publicly on his experiences.

Consumer Action

Tanya Heasman

Tanya is Joint Managing Director of System Concepts, an independent management consultancy providing risk management and user experience services to a wide range of public and private sector organizations. She was elected to the Council of Management of the Consumers' Association (now Which?) in 1997, and held the Deputy Chair of Council between 2003 and 2009. She was appointed to the Which? Ltd Board in 2008. She held a position as a lay representative on the Food Standards Agency Research Advisory Committee in 2002. She holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from London Business School, an MSc. in Ergonomics from London University and an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University. She has two small children and in the little time that is left enjoys reading, scuba-diving, playing bridge, walking and skiing.

Nick Partridge

Sir Nick Partridge has worked for Terrence Higgins Trust since 1985 and was appointed its Chief Executive in 1991. Over the past 24 years, Sir Nick has been a consistent voice in the media coverage of AIDS and sexual health in all its aspects from health promotion, social care and advocacy through to research and treatment issues.

Terrence Higgins Trust has negotiated 26 mergers with other charities over the past ten years and now mobilises over 1,000 volunteers and 350 staff, providing a wide range of sexual health and HIV services. Sir Nick is Deputy Chair of the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA), which advises Ministers and the Chief Medical Officers and a member of the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV.

In health research, Sir Nick is Chair of INVOLVE which promotes patient and public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research. He is also Deputy Chair of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, which aims to establish the UK as a world leader in clinical research.

Rebecca Smithers

Rebecca has been consumer affairs correspondent of The Guardian since 2006. She was previously the paper's transport correspondent and also wrote on education for nice years. She is governor of a North London secondary school.

Enviornment

John Cracknell

Jon has worked with the family of the late Sir James Goldsmith since 1993, and has managed the family's environmental grant-making and other philanthropy since 1998. A political sciences graduate from the University of Cambridge, with a Masters in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester, Jon has worked on environmental issues for seventeen years.

He is currently the director of the JMG Foundation, which funds environmental campaigns on a range of issues, including climate change. Since 2003 Jon has helped the Goldsmith family to set up three other grant-making structures, all funding environmental initiatives, primarily in Europe. He manages these day-to-day in addition to the JMG Foundation.

In 2003 Jon helped set up the Environmental Funders Network in the UK (www.greenfunders.org) which he coordinates on a part-time basis. The network brings together 80 foundations that fund on conservation and environmental issues. Jon has co-authored three detailed reports (the Where The Green Grants Went series) analysing environmental grant-making patterns and the sources of income for environmental groups in the UK.

He has also been actively engaged in the US Environmental Grantmakers Association since 1998, serving on the EGA Board since February 2008, and on the steering committee of the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization since its inception in 1999.

Emily Robinson

Emily is a former award winner of the Health and Social Care award category with her campaign to improve levels of nursing care for special care baby units. Emily is currently Campaigns Manager at Consumers International and has been the Foundations Trustee since the beginning of this year.

Lucy Pearce

Lucy is a Campaign Leader for the Stop Climate Chaos coalition. Since graduating with a 2:1 honours degree in African & Caribbean Studies, Lucy has worked as a professional campaigner for ten years. Starting out as General Secretary of Kent Students' Union, she has since worked for People & Planet, Christian Aid and the World Development Movement. Building on her track record of developing winning campaigns, including getting 60 universities to switch to green electricity and kicking the world's biggest oil company, Esso, off campus, she has also organised the UK's biggest ever demonstration on climate change.

Global Action

Tim Gee

Tim is BOND Campaigns Communications Officer, responsible for supporting collective public campaigns and activities on global poverty issues in the UK. Projects to date have included the Put People First: Jobs, Justice Climate campaign, which saw 35, 000 people take to the streets of London in March 2009, and Stand Up and Take Action Against Poverty and Inequality, when 50, 000 UK citizens joined with 117 million people world-wide to take part in anti-poverty events and actions to mark World Day for the Eradication of Poverty in October 2008. Previously he was active in the student movement, having held positions in the NUS, Edinburgh University Students' Association and People and Planet.

Lucy Russell

Lucy is passionate about making sure young people have a voice and are able to thrive and succeed. She is Chair of the People and Planet Trust and is an advisor to government via the Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy. She began her career as an intern at People and Planet working under Guy Hughes' management and remained his friend and part of his network of campaigning friends throughout Guy's life. Since P&P Lucy has worked with various NGOs and charities to support young people's social inclusion and campaigning. She has developed a career in policy creation and delivery - making sure campaigns are effective and meaningful. She has been the policy lead for a wide range of national campaigns and has succeeded in influencing UK government strategy, delivery and investment. For example on young mothers' needs, equality in careers advice, education and training and securing improvements in young women's income and training opportunities. Lucy also works to make sure all young people receive high quality sex and relationships education. She is Vice- Chair of the Sex Education Forum, the national authority on sex and relationships education. Lucy currently works for Oxfordshire County Council co-ordinating their young people's sexual health programmes and education and support strategies for young parents.

Emily Robinson

International Campaigner

Rachel Blain

Rachel Blain is an international campaigner who is currently responsible for the Because I am a Girl campaign on girls' rights at Plan International's UK office. She has worked for The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Amnesty International as well as several UK-based campaigning NGOs. She brings with her over 10 years of campaigning experience.

Nick Roseveare

Nick Roseveare joined BOND as Chief Executive in June 2008.
Nick lived and worked in Sudan, Ethiopia and Mozambique for the first ten years of his twenty year career with Oxfam. He then worked in UK-based senior management roles - latterly serving as global Humanitarian Director during the Tsunami, the Darfur crisis, the Pakistan Earthquake, and numerous other major disasters. His final role was as Director of Oxfam's West Africa Region.
He served for five years on the Management Board of The SPHERE Project (the sector-wide initiative on common principles and standards), and was a founder member of the innovative transatlantic "IWG" NGO collaborative. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Fund, an invited member of the Cass Business School (London) Advisory Board on Charity Effectiveness, and as a Council member of the Development Studies Association.

Andrew Reading

A chartered secretary, Andrew has been Company Secretary of Consumers' Association since 1991 and fulfils the same function for the Which? Ltd Board and the Audit Committee. He is responsible for the annual elections to the Council and the Annual General Meeting. Andrew is also a Trustee of Consumers' Association's Pension and Employee and Benefits Scheme and responsible, on the Trustees' behalf, for the administration of the scheme. Before joining Which?, Andrew was Assistant Secretary at the Engineering Employers' Association.

International Young Campaigner

Alistair Clay

Alistair is currently senior press officer at international children's charirty Plan.

Before joining Plan Alistair spent ten years working as a journalist for the Daily Mirror and ITV Teletext.

During his time as a reporter he worked on a number of succesful campaigns and covered many high profile news stories.

Connie Wessels

Connie Wessels has worked in the youth sector for four years, encouraging young people to take positive action for change. Connie recently moved from a Policy and Advocacy role at Girlguiding UK to the Youth Team at UNICEF UK, where she will support young people's advocacy and campaigning on issues such as HIV and AIDS, sex and relationships education, and child trafficking. Connie has a Masters in Gender and Politics from Birkbeck College and a Bachelor's degree in Politics and International Relations from the LSE. She is passionate about action for gender equity, action against gender violence, sex and relationships education, poverty eradication, and environmental sustainability.

Lyndall Stein (Chair)

Lyndall Stein is a leading authority in campaigning, income generation and communications.

She has been Executive Director of Concern UK since 2004. She was responsible for launching the new UK Charity, whose HQ is based in Dublin, and developing the founding Board of Trustees.

Prior to that she was recruited to ActionAid as International Marketing Director, to lead a major change process to raise profile, develop campaigning, and create new income.

She was Interim Director of Marketing at the Terrence Higgins Trust 97-99 and Head of Fundraising from '92-'95. She was the first Fundraising Director for the Big Issue Foundation from '95-'97.

Lyndall developed the first individual fundraising program for the African National Congress in the 80's and Chaired Votes for Freedom, the initiative that raised several million for South Africa's first democratic election.

She is founder Editor of Positive Lives, a ten year photographic project showing the global human response to HIV/AIDS, an exhibition seen worldwide by over two million people worldwide - and Co Founder of HIVI International, a volunteer group committed to raising support for the HIV crisis in the developing world.

London Social Justice

Bharat Mehta OBE

Bharat is Chief Executive of the City Parochial Foundation, a funding body established in 1891 to benefit the poor of London. He is also a trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (renamed RETHINK). He has also worked for the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Council for the Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and was a non-executive director of the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.

Maggie Baxter

Maggie is a freelance consultant advising two charitable foundations as well as developing a series of animated films alerting women around the world to being tricked into being trafficked. Last year she founded Rosa, the first UK Fund for women & girls. Previously she was Executive Director of WOMANKIND Worldwide, Deputy Chief Executive and Grants Director at Comic Relief. She is Chair of Rosa trustees, and is a Trustee of City Parochial Foundation, Trust for London, Hilden Charitable Fund, Women for Refugee Women, Dance United and Green Belt Movement International.

Lucy Musgrave

Lucy is a Trustee for The Sheila McKechnie Foundation. Lucy is a leading practitioner on sustainable communities, social architecture and urban design. She is the co-director of General Public Agency, a London-based consultancy specialising in high quality spatial strategies and the provision of meaningful community propositions. Previously director of The Architecture Foundation, a campaigning charity and cultural organization, Lucy developed programmes of action research focusing on social inclusion and the built environment. She has pioneered new thinking, methodologies and evaluation for community planning and regeneration. In 1996 she staged a series of influential "public forums" on the future of London that attracted over 15,000 people and effected government policy. Lucy has produced the publication Creative Spaces: a toolkit for participatory urban design and two UK government-sponsored directories on the best emerging architects in Britain. She is co-author of the Thames & Hudson-publication Design & Landscape for People: New Approaches to Renewal. She has been involved in a number of advisory and board roles, including the UK government's Urban Sounding Board, the Greater London Authority's Public Realm Advisory Group, the Mies van der Rohe European Prize for Public Space.

Social Inclusion

Rachel Newton

Rachel is Shelter's English Regions Campaign Manager. Rachel leads Shelter's Regional Campaign team who campaign for change to tackle the housing crisis across the 9 regions in England. Rachel has worked for Shelter for 11 years, working for many years in providing front line housing advice services to help people fight for their rights and get back on their feet, before moving into campaigning to tackle the root causes of bad housing and homelessness and achieve lasting change.

Dinah Cox OBE

Dinah became the founding Executive Director of the first UK-wide women's fund Rosa in August 2008. With its mission to raise and distribute money to women's projects and to influence others to do the same, Rosa would like to see a society where there is equality and justice for women and girls. Dinah studied social policy at South Bank University and the London School of Economics. With over ten years experience in influencing and developing social policy including as Chief Executive at ROTA, a London race equality think tank and as Director of Strategy at the London Voluntary Services Council, she is committed to seeing social change put in to action. Prior to her policy-related roles Dinah worked in a number of charities focused on services for homeless individuals. As someone committed to delivery of positive outcomes she is engaged in a number of areas as well as paid employment such as sitting as a Commissioner on the London Child Poverty Commission and on National Council for Voluntary Organisations Funding Commission. She is Deputy Chair of the Safer London Foundation and Chair of the Foundations grants committee, as well as a board member of the Wembley National Stadium Trust. Dinah is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and her other main commitment is her son Max.

John Rudkin

John is a Chartered Accountant and was appointed as Treasurer on the Sheila McKechnie Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2008. John knew Sheila from his work with Which? where he currently works as an Internal Auditor. He is a Director of Tradewind Heights RTM Limited.

Shout Out!

Sara Llewellin

Sara is the Deputy Chief Grants Officer of The City Bridge Trust and the Chair of London Funders. She has worked for the Trust since 1995. Prior to that she was the Chief Executive of a homelessness charity for 5 years and in the domestic violence movement before that. Sara is a member of the London Regional Consortium for ChangeUp and on the Credit Committee of Charity Bank. She was a previous Vice Chair of the Community Fund in London (1998-2003), Chair of Awards for All (1999-2003) and on the Investment Committee of Futurebuilders England (2005-08). Sara is Treasurer of a childcare social enterprise in Lewisham, a Director of the European Reminiscence Network and one of the initiators of 'Unboxed', developing approaches to human rights and leadership work with young people.

Miranda Watson

Miranda is a Campaigns Manager at Which? Consumers Association. Miranda has worked on a number of high profile campaigns, including issues such as nutrition labelling, the Kids Food Campaign and the award winning Endowment Action Campaign which helped thousands of people to claim compensation for mis-sold endowments.

Lucy Musgrave

Lucy is on the Board of Trustees for The Sheila McKechnie Foundation. Please read above.

Transport

Simon Norton

Simon is a mathematician at Cambridge University with a particular interest in sustainable transport. In particular he is Co-ordinator of the Cambs & West Suffolk branch of Transport 2000, the national environmental transport campaign.

Vaughan Lindsay

Vaughan is on the Board of Trustees for The Sheila McKechnie Foundation. Vaughan has been Chief Executive of the Dartington Hall Trust since February 2004. The Trust is committed to helping people realise inspired ideas through several strands of activity, from the arts and education to ecology, social research and commercial enterprise.
After graduating from Oxford University with a BA in Geography and obtaining an MSc in Demography from the London School of Economics, Vaughan went to work for Procter & Gamble, though moved quickly to the Kings Fund where he was sponsored through an MBA at the London Business School. His next move was to join Sheila at Shelter, spending six years as Director of Resources, before becoming Deputy Director of NCVO. Headhunted by the internationally renowned strategic management consultancy McKinsey while at NCVO, Vaughan then spent six years advising blue chip organisations on their strategy, marketing and sales. He is married with a daughter and lives in Devon.

Stephen Joseph OBE

Stephen has been Executive Director of Transport 2000 since 1988. He has previously worked for a range of organisations, including the British Youth Council, the Civic Trust and the Town & Country Planning Association. He was awarded the OBE in 1996 for services to transport and the environment. In July 2004 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the National Transport Awards.

Women Creating Change

Vivienne Hayes

Vivienne is the Chief Executive of the Women's Resource Centre (WRC). WRC is the national umbrella body for the women's voluntary and community sector, providing capacity building services to member organisations working to improve the lives of women, and consulting on and responding to government policy affecting the sector. She studied sociology at Warwick University, Women's History at Essex University and more recently Management at Westminster University. Vivienne's first inspiration comes from her mother, a working class woman who left school in her early teens to work in a factory, but who impressed upon her children the importance of education and an open mind. Vivienne has spent the last 20 years working in the women's sector, both delivering and managing services. Her passion is to support and improve the life experiences of women and their children, and most of her work has focused on this. Having grown up during a time when feminism and equalities issues were firmly on the agenda, Vivienne recognises the need to continue to raise these issues at a time when things seem to be slipping back in terms of progress for women and the whole equalities debate.

Vivienne is a Trustee of Rosa, the UK women's fund and has recently been appointed a commissioner of the Women's National Commission. She is also Chair of HEAR, London's regional equalities and human rights VCS network.

Helen Donahoe

Helen is currently Head of Campaigning Effectiveness at NCVO where she was previously the Head of Campaigns and Communications. She has spent many years working across the voluntary and community sector in a variety of roles focussed on policy and campaigns. At Mencap she led local advocacy initiatives and at the National Asthma Campaign (now Asthma UK) she was Head of Policy leading work on the campaign for a ban on smoking in public places. She has worked at an EU level on alcohol policy and at the Women's Sports Foundation she spearheaded the campaign for increased media coverage of women's sport. While freelance she has worked with Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Alcohol Concern, The Royal Society, Department of Health and The Health Foundation. She studied politics and government at the University of Manchester and holds an MSc in British Politics from the LSE. A former Citizen's Advice Bureaux and Lesbian and Gay Switchboard volunteer, she is currently a Board member of the YWCA. She is a Fellow of the RSA, an Arsenal FC season ticket holder, author of World Issues Today: Terrorism and a mother of two daughters.

Lindsay Mackie

Lindsay is a Trustee of the Foundation and a journalist and education consultant, specialising in immigration, race and social exclusion. She has co-authored a book on the obstacles to women's achievement, but also the ways in which women were forcing the pace to greater equality of pay and conditions. As director of the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Award for Young People she established an Award which now has 15,000 young holders. Lindsay currently works with local campaign groups fighting the standardisation of their High Streets and the loss of public outlets like banks, independent shops, post offices and pubs.

Young Activist

Stephen Matthews

Stephen is Head of Policy, Media and Research for YMCA England, supporting local YMCAs in their work with young people in England. At YMCA England, Stephen has helped organise the Changing Your World campaign, a training course that gives groups of young people skills to create their own campaigns. As a volunteer youth worker, he won a millennium award with CAFOD to travel to South Africa and work with their projects.

Steve Hillman

Steve began working for the Foyer Federation in October 2000. Since then, he has co-ordinated the delivery of the Federation’s UK Online Programmes, managed a national basic skills programme, and led on the development of a national learning programme for Foyer residents and staff with the National LSC. As Head of Policy and Knowledge Management, Steve now leads on the Federation’s influencing work across a range of social policy agendas, from housing and learning and skills, to community regeneration and wider third sector issues.

Lindsay Mackie

Lindsay is a Trustee of the Foundation, please read above.