Meet our trustees

Julie Reader-Sullivan (Chair)

Julie is currently the CEO at Headway Gloucestershire where she is responsible for ensuring that Headway Gloucestershire operates effectively and delivers the right services, to the right people at the right time. She has over 30 years’ leadership experience in the charity, public and private sectors. Julie’s expertise includes change leadership, human resources, and all-round support for businesses to help increase turnover, profit and productivity. She has worked intensively with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion matters in every sector and always puts the individual at the centre of the organisation. Her ethos is very much about Communication, Collaboration and Courage. 

Abdul Mulla

Abudl is Senior Manager Personalised Care with NHS England. Abdul has over 30 years’ experience of in working in community, health and social care settings. He is currently working as a senior manager with NHS England covering the South west region. Formally a CEO of a health charity and a Healthwatch in Blackburn (Lancashire) for 12 years, he worked in local government developing community development projects and involving community in major regeneration schemes as well as a youth and community worker for 10 years. Abdul has spent over 20 years in governance roles in a voluntary capacity which include primary schools, high schools and special schools. Becoming chair of a CVS and a board member of a large social landlord as well as a member on the Lancashire Police Crime Commissioners Panel. Passionate about giving people a voice, in particular those who are most vulnerable and on the margins of society.”

James Brown

James is the Director of Communications, Engagement and Involvement at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  James has a wealth of senior leadership experience, across national and international organisations, where he has led on improving staff experience, building community partnerships with voluntary and charitable groups, and delivering public involvement and consultations to ensure local voices shape how services are provided.

Janette Vizard

Janette is Grants & Social Value Officer for Bromford. Janette has a demonstrated history of working in the non-for-profit and charitable organisations. Supporting Charities across Gloucestershire to obtain grant funding and to support improvements in Governance.

Karen Lawton

Karen is the CEO of Mindsong. Mindsong creates and provides services across Gloucestershire that are tailored for people living with dementia and their family and friends, helping to support wellbeing, decrease isolation, develop new relationships, and bring joy through music. Mindsong offers clinical Music Therapy sessions, community singing groups and volunteer-led singing with residents in care homes. They also aim to increase awareness and understanding of dementia through training and education. Mindsong uses the same skills to deliver supportive singing groups to improve breathing and quality of life for people with respiratory conditions, heart failure and Long Covid . She has spent her entire career in the arts (in some form or another), celebrates the fact that we are surrounded by good people doing good things most of the time and is never without a book or a biscuit. 

Kit Boulting- Hodge

Kit serves as the Education and Community Officer, Academic Board member, and Board of Trustee member at the University of Gloucestershire's Students' Union, where he represents student interests and contributes to academic and strategic initiatives. He also actively participates in the Cheltenham Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) committee, working towards policies to address and prevent gender-based violence. Kit's commitment to innovation is evident through his involvement in the Curriculum Transformation Project and the Awarding Gap Steering Group, where he promotes co-creation and utilises demographic data to inform course content and tutors. Holding a degree in History, Kit has previously interned in finance sectors, including roles at ADASS and leading lending institutions in the UK. Recently, he initiated a salsa class to introduce and celebrate diverse cultural traditions in a predominantly white area.