Our trustees
Eleri Butler
Eleri Butler has worked on domestic violence and equality issues
for over 20 years in a variety of capacities nationally and locally
including supporting and advocating for women and children;
developing and managing local services; co-ordinating multi-agency
responses to improve services, strategy and policy; writing
guidance and resources; project managing EU equality and research
programmes; researching, campaigning, consultancy and training.
Between 2008-2010 Eleri managed the UK violence against women
programme at the Women's National Commission, and contributed to
the development and implementation of the England Violence Against
Women and Girls Strategy, and the Department of Health Taskforce
into the Health Aspects of Violence Against Women and Girls. Eleri
currently works on developing a violence against women strategy and
managing a programme of intelligent commissioning in Brighton &
Hove.
Diane Campbell
Diane Campbell was working in the financial sector before
returning to study social science and social work as a mature
student. She then joined the probation service where Diane held a
number of posts culminating in that of Assistant chief
officer. Following this, she has been involved in a number of
project management posts, one of which was for a London wide
domestic violence initiative. Diane continues to take an
active interest in this area and in the criminal justice
system.
Suja Chacko
Suja Chacko is a senior HR practitioner with substantial knowledge
and experience within the public and private sectors, of HR
strategy, policies and practice in employee relations, reward
management, recruitment and retention, diversity and inclusion,
communications and change management, with a special interest in
employee engagement. She runs her own HR consultancy, providing
support to local government, the civil service, voluntary and small
business sectors. She has recently been appointed as an
international HRM expert for the Council of Europe as part of
strengthening local and regional structures in Albania.
Rohan Collier
Rohan Collier is a specialist in Equality and Diversity work. She
was first employed as an academic, then worked in the voluntary and
then in the public sector, first in local government, then in
central government. She has done worked closely with the Criminal
Justice System; and has been involved in projects concerning
violence against women for the last 30 years.
Sarah Galvani
Sarah Galvani is a Principal Research Fellow at the University of
Bedfordshire and Assistant Director of the Tilda Goldberg Centre
for Social Work and Social Care Research. A social worker by
profession, Sarah's practice experience included working with
homeless women and men, people with alcohol and other drug
problems, as well as with those who suffered domestic violence and
mental ill health.
John Graham
John Graham was Finance Director for the Crown Prosecution Service
between 1999-2009. Before then, he worked in a number of
other central government departments including the Treasury, the
DTI, and the OFT. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants.'
Frank Mullane
Frank Mullane started a charity, Advocacy After Fatal Domestic
Abuse www.aafda.org.uk after
the murder of his sister and nephew in domestic violence followed
by the suicide of the perpetrator. The charity helps other families
and brings the victim perspective to the shaping of initiatives to
combat domestic violence. Frank is a member of the government's
Victims' Advisory Panel and has a role advising the Home
Office on the development of the new homicide review model.
He's a qualified accountant and a former senior project manager
with experience of leading teams and implementing change.
Catherine Orr Deas
Catherine Orr Deas has worked in the domestic violence field for
almost twenty years in a variety of different contexts with both
adults and children affected by domestic violence. Catherine is a
specialist domestic violence trainer with a client centred
counselling background. She is currently the coordinator of Woman's
Trust's West London Counselling Service (for clients affected by
domestic violence) and her background includes ten years of work
within Women's Aid refuges and Childline. Catherine has fifteen
years experience of providing regular specialist training to a
broad range of statutory and voluntary sector front line services
on behalf of Shelter and Woman's Trust as well as in a freelance
capacity.
Ian Powell
After many years working for the Probation Service, Ian founded
the pan-London crime reduction charity, London Action Trust, in
1994. As part of a range of programmes, he helped to set up the
Greater London Domestic Violence Project, which flourished under
the LAT umbrella. In 2005, he moved to become Chief Executive of
east London community charity, Aston-Mansfield. He then moved on to
his current post as Head of Member Services at bassac, a national
umbrella body for community centres.
