Our Trustees

Charlotte Baker (BA, MA, PhD) is a Lecturer in French at Lancaster University. She is interested in the representation and self-representation of marginalised groups in sub-Saharan Africa, and her academic research has taken her to Nigeria, Cameroon and South Africa.

Sarah Boardman (BA, MSc) runs her own fundraising consultancy business, The Bright Ideas Partnership.  She has helped a number of international NGOs to develop their fundraising capacity. She has been providing advice and support to the fundraising manager at Stepping Stones Nigeria since the beginning of 2011.

Nick Braley trained as a CIMA accountant in industry before working with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management accountant for four years. He then worked in Nigeria for four years with Diageo before taking up a finance role with Concern in Liberia. In 2007, Nick decided to change career and retrained as a teacher. In 2010/11 Nick completed a year working in Lagos for another multinational company and has now resumed his teaching career in the UK.

Michelle Butler is a Barrister at Matrix Chambers in London specialising in human rights and international law.  She has been working with Stepping Stones Nigeria (with other members of the Bar Human Rights Committee) since 2008.

Grace Ekong has been a committed supporter of Stepping Stones Nigeria's work for some time now. Although based in Manchester she regularly visits her home country and helps to monitor the work that Stepping Stones Nigeria is carrying out. Grace has a background in nursing and mid-wifery.

Anthony Finnerty (MTh, MA) has been a teacher for 30 years (including two years in Zambia). Currently he works for Global Link, the Development Education Centre based in Lancaster, and as an Education Consultant.

Felix Holman has been working and supporting street children for the last five years and has a huge amount of passion and enthusiasm for working with these children. She is currently Director of Programmes for StreetInvest, a charity working to train street workers around the world.

Aniefiok Ite (BSc) (Msc) was Stepping Stones Nigeria's former Nigerian coordinator. Now studying for a PHD in the UK his skills and experience of working in this field are a great asset to the charity.

Eleanor Jane Sandercock (BSocSci Hons) (MA) has been visiting the Niger Delta since 2001 in various capacities, including as a VSO youth volunteer, postgraduate researcher and, latterly, as a community development worker. She is currently the Akwa Ibom State Programme Mentor for Pro-Natura International (PNI).

James Trevett (ACA, MAAT) is a chartered accountant with a number of years of experience working for an international accountancy firm. His finance skills are an asset to Stepping Stones Nigeria, supporting our commitment to financial integrity and transparency.