LPT Board 2012

 

This is the employing body for all London staff. Board members are elected for a three-year term with the possibility of a three-year extension. They come from all walks of life and are representative of the communities which London Probation Trust serves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Board Members 

caroline corby

Caroline Corby - Interim Chair

Caroline Corby was appointed Interim Chair of London Probation Trust in April 2012.  She also chairs panels for the GSCC, the social work regulator, and sits as a lay panel member for the Health Professions Council.  She was a magistrate and a local councillor and has sat on a number or private sector company boards.

 

 

 
Heather Munro

Heather Munro - Chief Executive

Heather Munro was appointed as Chief Executive of London Probation Trust on 2 August 2010.  

Heather qualified as a Probation Officer in 1978 and worked for Durham, Hereford and Worcestershire before moving to Leicestershire in 1981. Heather was the Chief Executive of Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Trust from 2004 to March 2010

Heather is the Joint Vice-Chair and Communications Portfolio lead for the Probation Chiefs Association. She is an Honorary Visiting Fellow for the Department of Criminology, Leicester University.

 

david newman

 David Newman

David is a qualified accountant and a magistrate. He has worked in the private sector, starting in one of the large accountancy firms working his way up to eventually being a finance director and latterly the managing director for an international business. David sits as a magistrate in Surrey. 

 

 

 

 
carol butler

Carol Butler

Carol Butler is an HR professional who has held senior roles in commercial, voluntary and public sector.  She is currently Treasurer of Cricket for Change, a charity that uses cricket to change the lives of young people. 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolores Currie

Dolores Currie

Dolores is a business consultant, formerly General Manager, Commercial Operations BT Wholesale. Dolores was Chair of Camden Young Women’s Centre, a charity which provided youth services for young women in Camden. She is a trustee at the Brandon Centre and Chair of Islington Panthers Basketball Club, a voluntary organisation, which supports basketball at grass roots level for young men and women in the local community.

 

 
Lara Fielden

Lara Fielden

Lara is an author writing on media regulation. She has a background both in journalism, as a BBC current affairs producer, and as a broadcasting regulator with Ofcom.
Lara was a magistrate in central London for eight years, chairing in the adult court, and is vice chair of governors at the Great Ormond Street and UCH Children’s Hospital School.
 

 
Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

Mark is an ex-offender and former drug abuser. After primary, secondary and tertiary rehab he started a tree surgery business. His policy was to employ other recovering addicts and ex-offenders. He won, among other accolades, a Pride of Britain award for his work. His best selling autobiography, Wasted, was published in 2007.

He went on to become a policy adviser to The Prince’s Trust, then the Government and the third sector. He has now started a non-profit-making organisation, User Voice, to offer policy-makers access to the unheard and marginalised voices in society. His intention is to create a dialogue between service providers and users which is mutually beneficial and results in better and more cost-effective services. Mark is an Ashoka Fellow and Visiting Associate at the University of Durham.

 

 
Josephine Channer

Josephine Channer
Josephine is a Councillor from Barking & Dagenham elected May 2010 where she is involved in reaching out to and working for the community.
As a former Prison Officer, she worked with youth and drug misuse offenders at HMP Holloway Prison. In 2009, she founded The School of Development in Tower Hamlets, which offers training courses to young people who have been excluded from mainstream education.