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Our people
Meet the team at the Prudence Trust.
Prue MaCleod
Founder & Trustee Director
Guy Elliott
Chair & Trustee Director
Current Chair of the Sir John Soane’s Museum. Formerly Deputy Chairman, Senior Independent Director of SABMiller and of Cadbury, Non Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell, Chief Financial Officer at Rio Tinto. Formerly a member of the development boards at the Art Fund and the Canterbury Trust.
Peter Bennett-Jones CBE
Trustee Director
Entertainment business, producer and agent. Trustee of Liverpool Playhouse. Former Chair of Comic Relief/Sport Relief and Save the Children UK. Former trustee of Oxford Playhouse, RADA and the National Theatre.
Beatrice Hollond
Trustee Director
Chairman of F&C Investment Trust, board member of Brown Advisory, Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Supernumerary Fellow 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.
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.
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