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Our trustees

Become a Trustee of Daycare Trust

Our Trustees are responsible for overseeing the organisation’s development. Daycare Trust is a vibrant and fast-changing national charity and the Trustees play an important role in developing and supporting its work. They meet four-five times a year at Daycare Trust’s offices.

We aim for our Board of Trustees to be representative of childcare’s many different stakeholders.

Our current trustees

CLEM HENRICSON

Clem is Director of Policy and Research and Deputy Director at the Family and Parenting Institute. She is a social policy analyst who has specialised in investigating the relationship between the state and the family. She has a particular interest in human and children’s rights and has assessed the Government’s family policy from a social rights perspective. She also serves on government and academic advisory committees concerned with family policy.

SUE MARTIN

Consultant in children's services and community development. A director and partner of SmithMartin Partnership LLP, a consultancy organisation delivering a range of projects in regeneration areas. Sue qualified as a teacher, working throughout primary schools and became a headteacher in a rural school. She worked in childcare development, enabling many projects to be created with a special regard for children and families on the margins of society.

JUNE O'SULLIVAN

Newly appointed trustee of Daycare Trust. June is currently the Chief Executive of Westminster Children's Society (WCS), which is a registered charity that provides childcare services to families, agencies and employers in Westminster. Before working for WCS, June spent 20 years working with children and families in various roles for the Education, Social Services and Health sectors. June is a qualified social worker and psychiatric nurse. She is very passionate about the services offered to children and their families and trains, researches and writes about its development and management.

MARTIN PILGRIM

Martin retired from the post of Chief Executive of London Councils (formerly the Association of London Government) in April 2007 after nearly 10 years in post. He worked in local government for 39 years. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Martin’s other appointments are: Chairman of the London Regional Council of the Prince’s Trust; Chair of the London Sustainability Exchange; and Director of Film London.

KATE STEPHENS

Kate is currently a Director at Mandate, one of the
UK's leading public affairs and PR consultancies. She has direct
responsibility for Mandate's marketing and external profile, which
includes everything from advertising to the website, promotional
materials, events, sponsorship, awards and any specific new business
initiatives. Mandate is also part of the Engine Group, an independent
group of 12 companies with expertise across the marketing and
communications spectrum.

RITA STRINGFELLOW

Chair of Daycare Trust's trustee board. Rita is also Vice Chair of Relate and a trustee of Family Rights Group. She is also a Board Member of Childcare, a company which grew from North Tyneside Council’s highly successful Childcare Enterprise. Rita spent many years in Local Government as an elected Councillor and for 10 years led on childcare issues for the AMA/LGA, developing policy, lobbying government and contributing to government thinking, both formally and informally, in discussion with ministers and officials and retains an extensive network of contacts. 

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