Management committee
Dame Anne Owers
Anne became a Dame in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2008 in recognition of her services to the Criminal Justice System. This recognition came in addition to a CBE awarded in 2000 for her work in a range of voluntary and public posts. As the first ever woman to be appointed HMCIP, Anne revolutionised the Inspectorate with frank and candid reports which both celebrated improvements and critically assessed areas for improvements. Having such a distinguished career in both the voluntary and public sectors, Anne brings a huge wealth of experience, knowledge and credentials to the post. Anne is also a trustee of Clinks Member 'Koestler Trust'. Read the press release of Anne's appointment as Clinks chair here, and contact Anne through Joe Gardham
Lucy Gampell OBE
Lucy has over 20 years’ experience of working at a senior level in the voluntary sector. She led the organisational and strategic development of two charities from their embryonic stage through to their becoming successful, professionally recognised and highly regarded organisations. Her focus has been in the fields of social exclusion, criminal justice and the arts, areas which she feels passionately about. Lucy is an independent Member of the Parole Board and also works as a freelance consultant. She spent 15 years as the Director of Action for Prisoners' Families (APF), and represented them on many Government advisory groups. She is an experienced speaker, writer and broadcaster and holds an MSc in Criminal Justice Policy from the LSE. Lucy is a Trustee of the Nationwide Foundation and Vice President of the European Network for Children of Imprisoned Parents (EUROCHIPS). Lucy was awarded an OBE in the 2010 New Years’ Honours list for services to disadvantaged people.
Paul Cavadino
Paul worked for Nacro from 1972 to 2009 and was Chief Executive from 2002-09, before which he was Nacro’s Director of Policy, Race and Resettlement with lead responsibility for work on prisoners’ resettlement, race equality and policy matters. From 1989 to 2001 Paul was Chair of the Penal Affairs Consortium, an alliance of 40 organisations concerned with the penal system. He has been Chair of the Alliance for Reducing Offending (the national working group of Chief Executives of voluntary organisations working with offenders) since 2002. Paul has been a member of a large number of Government advisory committees and working groups and has written and co-written seven books on criminal justice and penal policy. He is also currently chair of the Prison Reform Trust’s Advisory Committee on reducing the use of custody for children.
Julian Corner
Julian joined the LankellyChase Foundation as its Chief Executive in 2010. He has twice worked as a civil servant, mainly in the Home Office but also in the Department for Education and Employment and the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU). While at the SEU he led its report 'Reducing Re-offending by Ex-prisoners' which led to the creation of the National Reducing Re-Offending Strategy. Julian’s previous roles also include Chief Executive of Revolving Doors Agency.
Robert Fulton - Treasurer
Robert was born and brought up in York, and after studying modern languages at Cambridge, joined the Home Office, where he spent his entire working career. In the Home Office he was involved with many aspects of the justice system, including the probation, police and prison services. Latterly he was the Department's Principal Finance Officer, and set up the Assets Recovery Agency (now part of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency). Since leaving the Home Office, Robert has retained his interest in justice and other social issues. As well as being a trustee of Clinks and SOVA, he chairs the boards of a housing and debt advice service and of a housing association, and is a member of the Finance and Audit Committee of Skills for Justice. He occasionally does pieces of work for the Ministry of Justice, including a recent review of the Deaths in Custody Forum.
Norma Hoyte
Norma is the Executive Director with PLIAS Resettlement, a voluntary organisation working with ex-offenders and other vulnerable groups. Norma is in the last year of her BA degree course in criminology at the University of Bedfordshire. She has over 15 years experience of working in local government bringing together experience from a broad spectrum of areas, with particlar emphasis of actively promoting measures which reduces inequalities between sections of the local community. She has worked closely with the voluntary and community sector and has developed and co-ordinated various activities, working closely from Government offices to ensure that BME voluntary organisations are included in participation, representation and consultation – developing inclusive government. She has recently worked on Clinks' Race for Justice Campaign to comprehensively help ex-offenders and ex-prisoners become active and legal participants in society.
Peter Kilgarriff
Until 2011, Peter was Chief Executive of the LankellyChase Foundation, an amalgamation of two separate grant-making trusts for whom he worked for over 25 years. Prior to that he worked at Capital Radio, Community Service Volunteers and as an ordained priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Peter convenes the Association of Charitable Foundation’s Penal Affairs Issue Based Network which brings together independent funders to discuss issues around offending and society. He is a Trustee of the Swan Mountain Trust.
Steve Rawlins
Steve is the Deputy Director for Pecan responsible for operations, developments and along with the Executive Director, the strategic direction for the organisation. He has considerable experience of setting up interventions that provide social inclusion. He previously worked at Training for Life as the Lambeth centre manager responsible for developments and their social enterprise gym. Steve gained a degree in Social Science with Psychology and a diploma in Health and Social Welfare, whilst in prison. Since his release in 2002 he has gained a Masters in Charity Marketing and Fundraising, a Masters in Voluntary Sector Management and an MBA. He is a member of the management committee at Partnership for Prisons and co-founder of Transformed Ministries (a Christian fellowship designed for Ex-offenders and their families).
Tim Robertson
Tim became chief executive of the Koestler Trust in 2006. The Koestler Awards for arts by offenders receive nearly 6,000 entries a year. The annual UK Koestler Exhibition attracts 14,000 visitors at such venues as the ICA and the Royal Festival Hall, and the Trust now runs exhibitions in Edinburgh and Manchester. Tim chairs the Arts Alliance, commissioned by Arts Council England and the Ministry of Justice to co-ordinate and promote arts in criminal justice settings across England and Wales. Previously, Tim worked for 14 years as a social worker and manager for children and young people in the London Borough of Camden. He set up Camden’s Youth Offending Team, social care team for disabled children, and five Sure Start programmes which were awarded Beacon Status by the Government. Tim’s academic background is in Applied Social Studies (Worcester College, Oxford) and English (King’s London and the State University of New York). He is on the editorial board of Magma poetry magazine and an advisor to Create Arts. He is a practicing Anglican and lives with his civil partner in King’s Cross, central London.
