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.