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Our people
Meet the team at the Prudence Trust.
Prue MaCleod
Founder & Trustee Director
Guy Elliott
Chair & Trustee Director
Current Chairman of Venice in Peril. Formerly Chair of Sir John Soane’s Museum; Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director of SAB Miller and of Cadbury; Non-Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell, and Chief Financial Officer at Rio Tinto. Formerly a member of the development boards at the Art Fund and Canterbury Cathedral.
Peter Bennett-Jones CBE
Trustee Director
Entertainment business, producer, and agent. Former Chair of Comic Relief/Sport Relief and Save the Children UK. Former trustee of Oxford Playhouse, RADA, Liverpool Playhouse, the National Theatre and Rugby School. Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.
Beatrice Hollond
Trustee Director
Chairman of F&C Investment Trust PLC, board director and chair of Remco (US) and Chairman of International Advisory Board (UK) of Brown Advisory, Chair, Trustee and member of the Investment Committee of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Supernumerary Fellowship of Pembroke College, Oxford. Various other directorships.
Julia Samuel MBE UKCP
Trustee Director
BACP Acc. Psychotherapist for over 30 years specialising in grief. Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK and a Vice President of BACP. Member of the Imperial College Research Ethics Committee. Podcaster and the author of three bestselling books.
Tara Leathers
Director
Tara is the Director of the Prudence Trust. Previously Deputy Chief Executive of the youth charity The Prince’s Trust, Development Director for India at Human Rights Watch, formerly Trustee of Young Women’s Trust.
Lin Richardson
Head of Grants
Lin’s career in the philanthropy sector spans two decades and previous roles include Deputy CEO and Head of Grants at the Wolfson Foundation and Director of Grants and Impact at the Vision Foundation.
Trish Bailey-Barclay
Team Executive Assistant
Trish was most recently working for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport supporting the delivery of various national events. She has several years’ experience in the grant-making sector at The Bromley Trust and Comic Relief.
Clare Killeen
Grants Manager
Clare has worked for UK-wide grant makers focussing on social justice and disadvantaged communities, including The Legal Education Foundation and The Clothworkers’ Foundation.
Catriona Aloir
Family Executive Assistant
Catriona has worked with the Prudence Trust since it was established in 2020, and with the trust’s founder, Prue MacLeod, since 2017. Before this she worked in the legal sector.
Karis Eaglestone
Head of Sector Engagement
Karis is Head of Sector Engagement at The Prudence Trust. Previously Director of Philanthropy at youth charity The King’s Trust, Karis’ background is in in youth development: convening philanthropists, foundations, and sector professionals to achieve ambitious social impact goals. She has also worked for human rights charity PEN International and started her career teaching English at a secondary school.
Tegan Easterbrook
Grants Assistant
Tegan has been working in civil society roles for the past 8 years and joined the Prudence Trust in 2024. To date, she has worked in mental health and wellbeing settings both in frontline services as well as in fundraising.
The wellbeing of our young people is one of the most pressing societal challenges of our time. To meet that challenge we need to fundamentally rethink our approach to research. We need to think prevention not cure.
