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.