Trustees

The Centre has a voluntary Council of Management, which meets monthly

We welcome applications to join the Council of Management, particularly from local residents. You do not need any particular skills to become a trustee, just a strong desire to help the Centre make a positive difference in our community. Please contact us if you would like to make an enquiry

Current trustees below (by date of appointment)

Isabel Saunders

Isabel joined the board in 2025 and has a particular interest in impact development and funding strategy. She is a grant funding specialist and has worked in the charity and legal aid sector for more than a decade, in organisations engaged in social care, education, prisons and youth services, and healthcare. Isabel also sits on a grant-making board for the Masonic Support Charity and – some years ago – was a volunteer law student at Brixton Advice Centre.

Jonathan Senker

Jonathan has called Brixton home since the early 1990s. He brings extensive experience in governance and leadership, gained through work across social care, advocacy, mental health, homelessness support, and public law. As a CEO, he built one of the UK’s largest advocacy organisations and he has played a key role in shaping legislation, policy, and guidance.

Jonathan now chairs the Public Law Project, serves as a Non-Executive Director of a major housing and support provider, and works freelance. He has long admired the work of Brixton Advice Centre and was delighted to join as a trustee in January 2025

Killian Moran

Killian joined the Board in 2025. He is a solicitor and spent the first years of his career in legal aid and social welfare law. He is now the senior legal officer for a legal action NGO which uses the law to challenge and restrict the use of the capital punishment in Commonwealth Caribbean and African jurisdictions. Killian is a long-term resident of South London.

Nigel Wachman – Treasurer

Nigel trained and qualified as an chartered accountant with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co (now KMPG).  Having qualified, he worked in accounting roles at Babcock Power Ltd, who made boilers for power stations, and Employers Reinsurance Ltd, a London Insurance Market reinsurance company.  Following this he moved into the Lloyd’s insurance was chief financial officer of Ellinger Heath, a reinsurance broker and RGB Underwriting Agencies Ltd and then Talbot Underwriting Agency Ltd, both syndicate managing agents.  As all of these entities are regulated, latterly by Lloyd’s, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority, Nigel has good experience of working within a tightly regulated environment with strong board direction. Nigel was appointed trustee and Treasurer in 2022

Lucas Bertholdi-Saad

Lucas became a trustee in 2021 and took an active role as a member of the finance subcommittee. Lucas is a trade union officer in UNISON, the public service union, where he is also a trustee of the staff pension scheme. Prior to this, he was a teacher and student union officer. As a BAC trustee, Lucas has a particular focus on staff, including human resources management, staff wellbeing, and employment terms and conditions

Ross Beaton – Secretary

Ross has been a trustee since 2017 and Secretary since 2019. He has been a barrister for 10 years, specialising in civil law, and now practises from 7BR in London. He moved to the Brixton area in 2015 and has been involved with various local projects since then, including a refugee support group, as well as the Centre. Prior to joining the board, he served as a school governor from 2013 to 2017

Fred Taggart

Fred joined the Council of Management in 1986 and served at Honorary Secretary for 30 years. Now retired, he is a town planner by profession and following posts in planning and public policy work he was a Chief Officer of a London Borough. Then for 15 years he served as Projects Director of The Prince of Wales’s Regeneration Trust where he advised community groups and local partnerships across the UK on setting in place the necessary arrangements to regenerate redundant historic buildings, including business planning and funding applications. A long-term resident of Lambeth he has served as a Borough councillor, Chair of the Governing bodies of two local schools, Governor of Brixton College, and Board member and Chair of a South London Housing Association. He was Honorary Secretary of the Carnegie Community Trust in Lambeth and a member of the Herne Hill Forum. Fred has also served as a trustee of charities in Cornwall, Halifax and Swindon, and was Vice- President of the Arkwright Society in Derbyshire, which cares for the historic Cromford Mill. He was awarded MBE in 2016 for services to Charity and Regeneration.

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