Dawn Dines, CEO and Founder of Stamp Out Spiking, is the national lead on spiking-related issues in the UK. With over two decades of campaigning, she has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about spiking, advocating for changes in legislation to better protect and support victims. Dawn is a member of key spiking roundtables at New Scotland Yard and with the Police Scotland, and regularly joins meetings at the Home Office and Foreign Office, where she shares her expert insights and advises on effective strategies to combat this crime. Her advocacy has reached the highest levels of government, including meetings with Home Secretary James Cleverley at the Home Office and the Prime Minister announcing at the opening of Parlaiment last summer that the alteration to legislation she has campaigned for will be going ahead. Dawn’s push for legal reform has gained support from five cross-political parties, all backing her mission to update the law and ensure stronger safeguards against spiking. Her dedication and influence continue to shape national policy, driving significant progress towards recognising and addressing spiking as a serious criminal offense and getting victims the support they need. 

Dr Charlotte Proudman is an award-winning barrister, Cambridge academic and campaigner fighting for women’s rights in and out of court. She has successfully spearheaded campaigns to change the law for women and was instrumental in the criminalisation of forced marriage, virginity testing, hymenoplasty, and increasing the age of marriage from 16 to 18 years old. Charlotte is the founder and director of Right to Equality, a non-profit campaigning to end the presumption of child contact with abusive parents, implement affirmative consent into UK law, make spiking a standalone offence, decriminalise abortion, end sex for rent, and recently completed a successful joint campaign to make public sexual harassment a specific offence.

Dr Amy Burrell has been researching in crime and policing for over 20 years. Much of her research has had a policing focus with topics including robbery, sexual offences, night-time economy violence, and spiking. She holds a BSc in Applied Psychology (Durham University), MSc in Forensic Behavioural Science (University of Liverpool), and PhD in Forensic Psychology (University of Leicester). She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Previous roles have included Research Fellow at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London, teaching posts at Birmingham City University and Coventry University, and work in the private sector in social science related research and security training.

With decades of executive-level experience spanning independent, corporate, and public sectors, specialising in Marketing, Operations, Licensing, Logistics, and System Implementation. Holding significant positions at Luminar Leisure Plc, Rank, Northern, The Drinks Group, University of East Anglia, and currently as Chief Executive of the Night Time Industries Association,

He has led high-level initiatives with local and national governments and key stakeholders, focusing on best practices for venues, bars, pubs, festivals, and live venues, swell as been a high level media advocate for the night time economy throughout the pandemic, featuring in central Government strategy and over 20,000 media interviews during this period.

Matt Turner is a Chief Inspector seconded to the NPCC VAWG Taskforce from the Metropolitan Police Service.  Matt joined the taskforce as the delivery lead for Safer Spaces, has coordinated the national policing response to spiking and is now working on the digital, protective orders and identification of high harm offender workstreams. Matt joined the MPS in 2003 and has worked in various frontline policing roles in response and neighbourhood policing. More recently he was the MPS lead for Crime Prevention and Business Crime with responsibility for the Met’s Designing Out Crime Officers where he delivered a range of prevention activity to help tackle serious violence.

Sophie spent 6 years in Thames Valley Police as a PC and Trainee DC, having had specialist training to investigate sexual offences. Following this, Sophie worked in a local authority as a Hate Crime Victims Advocate and in the Crown Prosecution Service engaging with victims of crime and developing support pathways for victims of Violence Against Women and Girls. Sophie has now been at UCL as the Crime Prevention and Personal Safety Advisor for 5 years, and continues to provide 1-1 advice and support for students and staff, as well as working in partnership with students and the Police to launch crime prevention campaigns for the safety of the UCL community.

Hannah Wadey is Chief Executive for Safer Business Network, a Community Interest Company dedicated to bringing businesses together with the police and other stakeholders to enhance safety and security through partnership, information sharing and training. Under her leadership, the Company has become the UK’s leading Business Crime Partnership,  representing thousands of businesses, across vibrant and diverse town centres. Safer Business Network is also recognised for its award winner women’s safety programme which includes WAVE and Ask for Angela.

With a background in Criminology, Hannah began her career in local government leading key community projects in an inner-city London borough. It was moving to the New West End Company BID that ignited her passion for the business community’s role in ensuring public safety and thriving town centres.  Hannah feels passionately in ensuring the business community gets the recognition and voice it deserves in all community safety projects as they play a vital role in keep people safe.

I am a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Royal Bolton Hospital and a Sexual Offences Examiner and the Lancashire SAFE centre.

Lorna Dallimore is the current Deputy Director of Intelligence with the Avon and Somerset Constabulary. Lorna joined the Police in 1995. In 1998 following secondment to the Criminal Investigations Department and exposure to several high-profile investigations Lorna developed a lifelong interest in the investigation of serious and complex crime. Throughout her policing career she has managed a broad investigative portfolio working within the Neighbourhood and Partnership, Serious Acquisitive Crime, Public Protection, Criminal Investigation and Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT) workstreams.

Dawn Dines, CEO and Founder of Stamp Out Spiking, is the national lead on spiking-related issues in the UK. With over two decades of campaigning, she has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about spiking, advocating for changes in legislation to better protect and support victims. Dawn is a member of key spiking roundtables at New Scotland Yard and with the Police Scotland, and regularly joins meetings at the Home Office and Foreign Office, where she shares her expert insights and advises on effective strategies to combat this crime. Her advocacy has reached the highest levels of government, including meetings with Home Secretary James Cleverley at the Home Office and the Prime Minister announcing at the opening of Parlaiment last summer that the alteration to legislation she has campaigned for will be going ahead. Dawn’s push for legal reform has gained support from five cross-political parties, all backing her mission to update the law and ensure stronger safeguards against spiking. Her dedication and influence continue to shape national policy, driving significant progress towards recognising and addressing spiking as a serious criminal offense and getting victims the support they need.