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Reg. Charity Number: 1112301

Richard Martin –
Founder and Chairman

Claire Packham –
Treasurer

Clare Bolt

Professor Sarah Annes Brown

Antonia Leslie

Dominic Martin

Trevor Mepham

Richard Montagu

Jessica Woolley

Richard Martin – Founder and Chairman

The Founder and Chairman of Children of Peace, it is Richard’s vision that is helping to change so many people’s lives for the better. His inspired leadership has brought together many individuals and organisations who share his fresh approach to conflict resolution in the Middle East. Formerly Managing Director of a leading international advertising, marketing and public relations consultancy, Richard now runs his own consultancy. Prior to that he acted as a consultant to the BBC, was Coordinator of Film and Television Management Studies at university level, a Justice of the Peace in East Sussex and a senior adviser to an antiracist NGO. Richard is married, with two children.

Claire Packham – Treasurer

As one of the founding Trustees for Children of Peace, Claire has given up her time to oversee the accounts department of the charity since day one.

She is the Senior Partner of Sussex based Bookkeeping Practice and Training Consultancy, Team 4 Solutions. Before setting up her own business 15 years ago she managed the accounts departments for a number of companies in the South East.

Clare Bolt

Clare Bolt works for the BBC’s Digital Communications team, helping to promote the BBC’s content through digital channels and social media. She has worked for the corporation for eight years. She read English literature at Southampton University and completed a post-graduate qualification in Journalism in 2003. Clare has been a member of the Children of Peace fundraising team for six years, helping organise the Stand up for Peace comedy nights and running the10km race for the last four. Clare lives in north London with her partner, who works for BBC World News.

Professor Sarah Annes Brown

Professor Sarah Annes Brown started her career at the University of Bristol where she completed a Ph.D. on the Renaissance reception of Ovid. She has since taught at the universities of Central England, St Andrews, De Montfort and Cambridge. She took up her present position as Professor of English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University in 2006. Sarah has published widely on the influence of classical texts on English literature and her most recent book is a study of the relationship between allusion and the uncanny published by Manchester University Press. She is interested in issues relating to educational access and is involved in the work of the Iris Project, a scheme which promotes the study of Classics in the state sector. Sarah warmly supports Children of Peace and is delighted to be associated with such a positive and inspirational charity.

Antonia Leslie

Shortly after completing an English Literature degree at Edinburgh University, Antonia did a three month internship with Children of Peace. Though deciding she didn't want to pursue a career in the charity sector as previously thought, Antonia remained passionate about Children of Peace's vision and ethos. Antonia thus continued her voluntary involvement with the charity, particularly on the events and promotional side, helping to organise a Stand Up for Peace comedy night and managing the Children of Peace Facebook and Twitter accounts. Antonia now works as the publicist for a non-fiction publisher called I.B.Tauris and lives in London.

Dominic Martin

Dominic Martin has been a journalist/chief sub editor for more than ten years. Currently freelance, he has worked for the likes of BBC World Service, Sky, The Guardian, Lonely Planet Magazine, Tatler and The Stage. He has been an active volunteer for Children of Peace since its foundation and has organised a number of fundraising events for the charity, including the Stand-up for Peace comedy nights and annual 10k running teams. Having read Politics at Bristol University, Dominic takes a keen interest in Middle Eastern affairs and wrote his dissertation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dominic is married and lives in North London.

Trevor Mepham

Trevor Mepham lives in Herefordshire with his wife. They have 4 children. After studying International Relations and European studies at Keele, Bruges and Aberystwyth, he trained to become a Steiner teacher. He worked as a class teacher at the South Devon Steiner School, Dartington, before joining the advisory team of the UK Steiner Schools movement - the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF). He spent 12 years at the University of Plymouth, working in the Faculty of Education as Co-Director of the Steiner BA Programme. He served on the Executive Group of SWSF for 6 years, before taking up a new post, in September 2008, as Principal of the Steiner Academy Hereford - the first publicly-funded Steiner school in the UK. In 2009 he joined the Board of the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education (ECSWE). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Richard Montagu

Richard joined the British Army in 1981 and served as an officer in UK, Germany, Hong Kong, Brunei and Kenya. He experienced the challenges of conflict resolution when he twice served in Northern Ireland. In 1991 he left the Army and entered industry where he worked for Perkins, the multinational diesel engine manufacturer, at a time when the business was going through a fundamental change in its style of management. He took a leading role in this process, an experience which led him to introduce the same process at a sister company in the US. Richard settled into a sales role and later became responsible as General Sales Manager for sales of a significant segment of the market travelling across the world. In 2000 he joined Alstom, the train manufacturer, where he joined the UK sales team handling customers, Virgin, First Group and Stagecoach amongst others. He later became UK Sales Director. Having left Alstom in 2009 Richard now runs his own travel company focusing on the Galapagos.

Jessica Woolley

Jessica has a keen interest in child welfare, and currently works in local government as the Child Employment Officer for the Royal Borough of Kingston. A philosopher at heart, Jessica studied from 2004 - 7 at the University of East Anglia, where she wrote undergraduate dissertations on Kafka and a comparative study of Wittgenstein and Rousseau. After her BA, Jessica went on to do an MPhil in philosophy at Cambridge University, specialising in later Wittgenstein and the philosophical role of poetry in everyday life. Having since worked in a range of professions, including her current role in the public sector, Jessica has decided to return to academia and will be starting work on her PhD entitled 'The Problem of Humanitarian Intervention' in October 2011, back at UEA.

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forgotten victims
of the conflict"

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difference to the children’s
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