Mike Howard (Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees)
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Grant Phillips (Chair of the Board of Trustees) and Darren Worthington (SMART Chief Executive) - left to right
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Grant left the Barclays Bank Group last year after a 29 year career both in the UK and overseas. Grant is also Chairman of the Oxfordshire Common Purpose Advisory Group, and a Finance Sector consultant at the Said Business School, Oxford University. His fundraising activities include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and helping to build a school for orphaned children in Nepal.
Mike is an Anglican priest and retired probation officer who worked for about 30 years in the Oxfordshire Probation Service (now Thames Valley), specialising in the field of drug and alcohol misuse. He was one of the small group enthused by Phil Skillen (founder and first director of SMART) who worked to launch the charity.
Richard is the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Oxford Brookes University. In recent years he has conducted studies of crime, crack-cocaine and heroin use in Oxfordshire, Homelessness and Substance Misuse in Berkshire, Crack Cocaine and Stimulant misuse in Berkshire, and an evaluation of Needle Exchange Schemes in Oxfordshire. Richard is a member of the Drugs Prevention Advisory Service Regional Training Forum, which is currently developing an integrated training strategy for both specialist drug and generic workers.
Martin is a partner with Darbys in Oxford heading their Criminal Law Team. He attends Oxford Magistrates Court and other Courts in the county everyday. In addition to being a Trustee of SMART Martin is a Governor of his local primary school.
A graduate from Oxford University in Modern Languages Shahin has co-founded a school in Oxford, been an interpreter for the Immigration Appellate, a legal advisor to a travel company, and is currently a teacher of Ancient History, Latin, Russian and French. She is also a magistrate on the North Oxfordshire bench and the Oxfordshire Youth Panel.
Maggie has worked in criminal justice services for over 18 years. Moving from senior management in Inner London Probation Service, she set up the first County Youth Offending Service in 1998 in Oxfordshire, and then spent five years as a senior civil servant advising government on youth crime issues. She has been a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales since 2005 and is Independent Chair of Nottingham YOT. Maggie continues to work independently as a youth justice specialist in the UK and internationally.
Cesca works in the television industry and has worked on numerous documentaries for Arena, Equinox, Horizon, Omnibus and Dispatches. She currently works as an executive producer on series for the BBC and others.
A graduate of the Institute of Personnel and Development, Michelle has over 17 years experience in both generalist and specialist human resources (HR) roles in the business world.
Dave is a Chief Superintendent in Thames Valley Police starting his police career in 1990. In recent years, he has been the Force Drugs Co-ordinator and in 2007, he was promoted to Chief Superintendent and took up the post of BCU Commander for Berkshire East.
Following over 20 years in the Probation Service specialising in work with young offenders, Patsy is currenly director of youth programmes at Thames Valley Partnership. Within the Partnership she manages the Never Too Early Programme, which aims to provide better integrated support to families of prisoners and offenders across all agencies. She also has a community safety role, within Oxfordshire, where she chairs a county community safety network, and sits as a member of several Crime and Disorder Partnerships.
Bryn is a building services consulting engineer who has worked in the construction industry for 42 years. He has lived in Oxfordshire for 36 years and worked with the founder members of SMART, back in 1996, during the early stages of the Arrest Referral Scheme to get it up and running.