Judging Panel 2025

Bushra Ahmed, Founder, West Croydon Voice
James Banks, Chief Executive, London Founders
Cheryl Hooper, CEO, Cecily's Fund; Independent Consultant, Global Changemakers Oxford
Dalton Leong, Chair, Chartered Management Institute South East Regional Board
Srabani Sen OBE, Founder and CEO, Full Colour
Amanda Tincknell CBE, Chief Executive, Cranfield Trust
Grant Wilson, CIO, Asset Risk Consultants

Bushra Ahmed, Founder, West Croydon Voice
Bushra is a business leader, non-executive director, board advisor, strategic consultant, and community activist with over 25 years of experience in board development, strategy, governance, finance and community engagement. Recognised for her impact, Bushra was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2025 and was shortlisted for the National Diversity Awards as a Positive Role Model for Gender in 2023. She currently serves as Board Director of the Lloyds Bank Foundation and Board Advisor at the Bevisioneers Mercedes Benz Global Fellowship, alongside other board and advisory roles.

James Banks, Chief Executive, London Founders
James Banks is Chief Executive of London Funders, enabling public, private and philanthropic funders to work collaboratively on the issues that matter to our communities. He helped to bring 67 funders together to distribute £58m through the London Community Response collaboration during the pandemic, enabled funders and social justice organisations to deliver the £100m ten-year Propel systems change collaboration, and encouraged progressive funder practice towards more open and trusting grantmaking by getting over 400 funders to sign the We Stand With The Sector pledges. Alongside his role at London Funders, James also chairs Collaboration Circle, a national organisation that provides a space for funders and partners to pool their people, power and pounds to achieve positive and lasting change. He was made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022 for his services to charitable funding in London.

Cheryl Hooper, CEO, Cecily's Fund; Independent Consultant, Global Changemakers Oxford
Cheryl Hooper is the CEO of international charity Cecily's Fund, as well as an independent consultant for Global Changemakers Oxford.

Dalton Leong, Chair, Chartered Management Institute South East Regional Board
Dalton had careers in both the financial services and not-for-profit sectors (leading three charities as Chief Executive and undertaking governance roles as a Chair, Trustee and Governor).
Dalton now has a non-executive portfolio. Other than his position at the Chartered Management Institute, he has roles in healthcare, EDI, and Trustee roles at the National Emergencies Trust (where he chairs their Equity Advisory Panel) and as founding Co-Chair of Board Racial Diversity UK.
He is passionate about communities and ensuring the voice of everyone is heard in an inclusive way, in order to create a better society.

Srabani Sen OBE, Founder and CEO, Full Colour
Srabani has had an extensive leadership career in the not-for-profit sector. She has been the CEO of Alcohol Concern, Contact a Family and the British Association for Adoption and Fostering. She has more than 25 years' board experience, including chairing two not-for-profits: ActionAid and children and young people's charity The Winch. In 2014, she set up a consultancy specialising in supporting not-for-profit organisation on leadership, strategy and organisational development and she most recently founded Full Colour, which aims to develop emerging BAME leaders, and to support existing leaders develop practical ways to lead inclusively.

Amanda Tincknell CBE, Chief Executive, Cranfield Trust
CEO Amanda Tincknell joined Cranfield Trust as a volunteer in the 1990s, after completing her MBA at Cranfield School of Management. With a background in market research and recruitment, she was an early project manager for the Trust and spent some time as a trustee before becoming Chief Executive in 2000. She holds overall responsibility for the direction and management of the Trust, reporting to the trustee board. Amanda has increased the Trust’s capacity and influence enormously over more than two decades and was awarded a CBE for her contribution to charity services in the Queen's New Year Honours list 2015. With others, she is a founding member of the Pro Bono Association. Amanda is highly motivated by the organisations and leaders that the Trust is privileged to work with. 

Grant Wilson, CIO, Asset Risk Consultants
Grant joined ARC in 2015 as Chief Investment Officer. He has worked in International Finance for more than thirty five years, initially as an investment manager and executive director of a number of fund management companies, including Martin Currie Investment Management Limited and Gartmore Investment Trust Management Limited. For the last ten years Grant has worked as an Investment Consultant based in Guernsey. Grant has served as a Trustee or Director on a number boards of charities, private and public companies. Grant is an Associate of The CFA Society of the UK (ASIP), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (MCSI) and an Associate of the Chartered Governance Institute (ACG). He has a degree in Business Administration from Strathclyde University.