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THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES
Supporting Good Causes Worldwide
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. Richard is Managing Director of a leading international advertising, marketing and public relations consultancy. Prior to that he acted as a consultant to the BBC, was Coordinator of Film and Television Studies at university level, was a Justice of the Peace in East Sussex and is a senior adviser to an antiracist NGO. Richard is married, with two children.
Claire Packham – Treasurer
Claire Packham is a Senior Partner in a Sussex based company, specialising in providing bookkeeping, accountancy and training services to a wide range of businesses across Sussex. Before setting up her own business twelve years ago, Claire had managed the accounts departments for a number of leading companies. She lives in East Sussex with her son.
Clare Bolt
Clare Bolt is the commissioning editor for Ariel, the BBC's in-house newspaper, and has worked for the corporation for seven 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 five 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
Sarah Brown is a member of the Department of English, Communication, Film & Media at Anglia Ruskin University. Her principal teaching areas are Shakespeare, myth, and the Victorian novel. She previously taught at the Universities of Bristol, Central England, St Andrews, De Montfort and Cambridge. Her publications include the Everyman edition of Nicholas Rowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (co-edited with Charles Martindale) (1997) The Metamorphosis of Ovid: Chaucer to Ted Hughes (1999), Devoted Sisters: Representations of the Sister Relationship in Nineteenth Century British and American literature (2003), Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis (2005) and a volume on Henry James for Pickering and Chatto's Lives of Victorian Literary Figures series (2006). Her current projects include chapters on classical reception and science fiction (for a Blackwell Companion to the Classical Tradition) and an article on queer theory and the Pygmalion myth. She is also co-editing a collection of essays for Blackwell, Tragedy in Transition, with Dr Catherine Silverstone. Sarah has recently been appointed editor of a new series for Duckworth, Classical Diaspora.
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
Having read Politics at Bristol University, Dominic Martin wrote his dissertation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has worked as a journalist for nearly ten years and currently works for the BBC World Service, based in London. He has been a volunteer for Children of Peace since its foundation and has organised a number of fund-raising events including the comedy night Stand-up for Peace and the annual London 10k team of 12 runners as the Sports Coordinator. Dominic is currently the elected Chair of the Children of Peace Events Committee. He lives in 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 in 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, including Virgin, First Group and Stagecoach amongst others. He later became UK Sales Director. In 2009 he left Alstom to become a consultant in change management working across varied sectors. In addition he is setting up an art and travel company.
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.
THE TRUSTEES
Richard Martin –
Founder and Chairman
Claire Packham – Treasurer
Clare Bolt
Professor Sarah Annes Brown
Antonia Leslie
Dominic Martin
Trevor Mepham
Richard Montagu
Jessica Woolley
TRUSTEES