Our team
Meet the people who bring our strategy to life
Our staff
Jireh has a law degree and has previously volunteered with human rights organisations.
What Jireh works on: Supporting operational delivery of grants and communication with our funded partners.
Get in touch: grants@atjf.org.uk
Shabana has extensive experience designing and delivering funding initiatives and community engagement.
What Shabana works on: Overseeing the strategic direction of our grant giving activity and funder collaborations.
Get in touch: grants@atjf.org.uk
Bhavini has raised funds from multiple sources for health, social mobility, and education causes.
What Bhavini works on: Developing strategies to maximise income from existing and new income streams.
Tiya is particularly interested in equitable access to justice for minoritised communities. She previously worked in administration and compliance while volunteering for legal advice charities.
What Tiya works on: Project managing our grant programmes and processes.
Get in touch: grants@atjf.org.uk
Lawrence has experience working on grant programme management, safeguarding, and governance in the charity sector.
What Lawrence works on: Project managing our grant programmes and processes.
Get in touch: grants@atjf.org.uk
Clare has experience as a legal aid solicitor and in legal charity management.
What Clare works on: Delivering our strategic vision, with a particular focus on long term sustainable funding.
Martha has experience working in developing both frontline and infrastructure legal charities.
What Martha works on: Building relationships with our partners and other key stakeholders.
Peter is a CIMA-qualified accountant with extensive experience in financial compliance.
What Peter works on: Leading key financial management tasks including accounting, audit, budgeting, payments, and financial reporting.
Andy has a background in implementing and maintaining Salesforce solutions across multiple sectors.
What Andy works on: Leading our data function and maintaining our Salesforce instance.
Ruby previously worked as a paralegal and has an LLM in Law and Legal Practice.
What Ruby works on: Ruby provides operational support across the organisation including IT Management and leading special projects, and she works with the Development Team to increase organisational visibility including supporting stakeholder engagement on our collective actions work.
Colin has expertise in not-for-profit operations management. He previously worked for the Open Society Foundations and in the Civil Service.
What Colin works on: Colin provides oversight for our finance and operations functions and supports on organisational structure & governance issues.
Urmi has previously studied law and volunteered at a legal advice centre.
What Urmi works on: Supporting the operational delivery of grants and communication with our grantees.
Get in touch: grants@atjf.org.uk
Eve has an MSc in Legal Tech and has experience fundraising for a social mobility charity.
What Eve works on: Managing donations and key relationships relating to residual client balances.
Get in touch: clientbalances@atjf.org.uk
Mary has an MA in law and has first-hand experience volunteering at a legal drop-in clinic.
What Mary works on: Managing donations and key relationships relating to Pro Bono Costs Orders, our Legal Walks, and other fundraising events.
Get in touch: costs@atjf.org.uk/ events@atjf.org.uk
Our trustees
Our board brings together leaders from across the legal and advice sectors, each nominated by our member organisations or appointed for their specific expertise. They provide strategic oversight and ensure we stay focused on our mission while bringing valuable connections and insights from their own professional networks.
Ruth is the Director of the Hadley Trust, a grant-making charity with a focus on criminal justice and young people. A solicitor with a background in finance, Ruth was previously the Chief Executive of the Access to Justice Foundation and is also a trustee of a local community charity in Camden.
Simon was head of commercial litigation at the law firm Clifford Chance and then President of the Law Society of England and Wales 2019/2020. He is a trustee at the Access to Justice Foundation, Trustee at the Royal College of Surgeons in England and Deputy Chair of Governors at Birkbeck College.
Sara is a CILEX Lawyer and Senior Leader in the NHS with expertise in clinical negligence litigation and healthcare law. She is currently the President of CILEX and a member of the Chartered Management Institute. She is passionate about equitable access to justice, social mobility, and accessibility in the legal profession.
Cassi has been the Chief Executive of Youth Access since November 2020 and has worked for over a decade in the children and young people’s sector. Cassi has held senior roles at the Local Government Association and Barnardo’s, and she served as the first Director of the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse.
Anne is a retired judge having served as a Deputy High Court Judge, an Additional Judge of the Court of Appeals (Criminal Division), and a Senior Circuit Judge.
Anne was first admitted as a Solicitor in 1983 and has also served as a Diversity & Community Relations Judge, a Judicial Member of the Parole Board, and a Director for Serious Sexual Offences at the Judicial College.
Matthew is a partner at the global law firm, Clifford Chance. He led the firm’s disputes practice and was a member of the firm’s executive leadership group for eight years until December 2025. In 2000, he led the creation of the firm’s long-running partnership with the National Autistic Society, through which the firm’s lawyers provide pro bono tribunal representation for parents appealing decisions on educational provision.
Des has been a Trustee of ATJF since 2023. he is also a Trustee at Concordia, the International Volunteering charity, and at CharityWorks which helps young people into charity sector work.
In his earlier career, he was Group HR Director for Associated British Foods plc, the international food and retail group. he was also CEO of Allied Bakeries, the leading UK bakery company.
Sacha is the Chief Funding Director for City Bridge Foundation. London’s largest independent charitable funder. Sacha has previous occupied senior roles at the School for Social Entrepreneurs and spent over a decade at the National Lottery Community Fund.
A former litigation solicitor, Rebecca specialised in family law and the additional support needs (SEN) of underrepresented vulnerable individuals, and charities throughout her career.
She sits on the Law Society of Scotland’s Access to Justice Committee and the Scotland Committee for the Access to Justice Foundation. She is also Chair of the Scottish University Law Clinic Network (SULCN) and a Trustee of the Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO).
Joe is a human rights and environmental solicitor at Hausfeld. He has previously worked in corporate law and in several NGOs, and also has experience of climate change litigation in the UK and Latin America.
Joe has significant experience of working to increase access to justice to vulnerable individuals across a number of different sectors both internationally and domestically.
James is a barrister practising from Essex Court Chambers in London, specialising in commercial law. He has supported legal advice and rights charities throughout his career, and he is also a trustee of a national charity which supports children experiencing difficulties with speech and language.
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