Our Trustees

Charlotte background has been mainly in the Voluntary and Public Services. She started working in Swindon as an organiser for Homestart supporting families with under-fives. She then moved to Norfolk where she established Homestart and developed learning programmes for staff and volunteers working with families undergoing difficulties. On returning to Swindon, she set up and ran the Centre for Professional Development at for Great Western Enterprise and later Business Link for eleven years before becoming self-employed specialising in business communications.  Charlotte was chair of New College Swindon Corporation for seven years, leading the board to the successful merger with Swindon College in August 2020.  Charlotte is a direct member of Rotary and the Rotary GBI equality, diversity and inclusion specialist.

Nicky’s background is cemented in the international human resources arena, specifically in an advisory capacity to organisations seeking to expand their global footprint. Along with two business partners, her career to-date includes establishing and growing a successful HR consultancy supporting companies with their international growth strategies. 

Sarah was an ingredients and packaging buyer in the food manufacturing industry before running a farm and a number of diversification businesses with her husband for over 25 year. She is now semi-retired looking after a much scaled down farm with cows and sheep. Sarah has supported friends who have experienced homelessness, two of whom used Big Breakfast Plus, and understands how vital the service is for those in need. 

Whilst in Portsmouth, Clegg sat on the operations committee of Helping Hands Portsmouth which was an organisation that provided food and hot drinks to the homeless community of Portsmouth.

Whilst working on the operations committee, the organisation scaled up from providing an evening meal on one night a week to delivering a breakfast service three times a week and an outreach service ensuring those who were homeless outside of the city centre still recieved food, water and hot drinks. 

Further, Clegg co-founded the Red Box Project which had the aim of ensuring no young person missed out on their education due to having their period. When the Red Box Project was set up, it had the ambition of ensuring all schools and colleges in Portsmouth had access to period products, free of charge. However, the project soon scaled and covered the UK and places overseas. 

In 2021, Clegg was honoured with an MBE for services to education for his work in co-founding the Red Box Project and successfully campaigning to secure policy change meaning government now funds period products in schools.

James gained a university degree, before starting his career in the healthcare industry where he held roles with a major healthcare manufacturer and ran his own business. He is now working in the Financial Services Sector.

He enjoys maintaining a volunteer role within the organisation, as well as the strategic work on the board of Trustees. 

Originally from Swindon, Lisa has been living and working in France since 2016. A seasoned markateer, Lisa has spent 25 years working in international marketing roles for companies including Burmah Castrol, Triumph, Plantronics and now HP. 

Maintaining strong family ties to her hometown, Lisa is looking to put her marketing expertise to good use in support of vital local community services.

Franki has worked in a corporate charity setting for over 20 years, taking on various roles including Communications, Design, Volunteer Coordination and Financial Administration.  In her current role she is responsible for Data, Monitoring and Evaluation.

Prior to working in corporate charity, Franki worked in an SEN School for a number of years and has also volunteered for various organisations in the UK and overseas.

Franki started off as a Breakfast Shift Volunteer for BB+ in February 2023, but soon realised that as well as serving our guests directly, that she wanted to give more to the organisation, by using all of the skills developed working in charity, to further support BB+ as a trustee.