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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.
Peter Fonagy CBE FMedSci
Trustee Director
Director of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London (UCL), National Clinical Adviser for Children and Young People’s Mental Health for NHS England, Adjunct Psychiatrist at Yale Medical School, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is also the former Chief Executive of Anna Freud Centre.
Clem Macleod
Trustee
Clem is the founder of Worms Magazine and Publishing, championing under-represented voices in literature. She is the Co-founder of The Compost Library and she is the founder of Seed Readers, an online platform supporting literary charities.
Tara Leathers
Director
Tara is the first 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 – with decades of experience of working in the non-profit industry in the UK and Internationally.
Sarah Denselow
Head of Grants
Sarah joined Prudence Trust from New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), where she led on philanthropy consulting and supported funders including Stone Family Foundation, Croda Foundation, Centennial Bermuda Foundation and the Transition Advice Fund. She previously managed youth grants and scholarships at the Asfari Foundation, and was trustee of Crohn’s & Colitis UK.
Clare Killeen
Senior Grants Manager
Clare came to Prudence Trust from the Legal Education Foundation where she managed grants to the advice sector, the Justice First Fellowship and contributed to the Covid era funder collaboration, the Community Justice Fund. She has previously worked at Clothworkers’ Foundation and in programme coordination at prisoners’ arts charity, Fine Cell Work.
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.
Eleanor Luther
Executive Assistant
Ellie joined the Prudence Trust in 2025, supporting the team with administrative duties and events. To date, she has worked in the food systems space settings as well as in fundraising, previously supporting Tara at the (formerly) Prince’s Trust in 2019.
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.
Jordan Barber-Roberts
Jordan joined Prudence Trust from London Sport, with his previous experience including working at The National Lottery Community Fund, distributing grants on the Reaching Communities programme.
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