Women’s Safety Digital Conference 

Rose Caldwell is CEO of Plan International UK, an international NGO that strives for children’s rights and equality for girls.  With over 20 years of senior leadership in NGOs, Rose is driven by her desire to help create a better and more equal world, where every child and young person can reach their full potential and has the opportunity to raise their voice to help shape the world around them.  A chartered accountant by background, Rose spent 10 years in the private sector, before working with an INGO in Burundi, Rwanda and Zimbabwe.  Rose currently chairs the International Broadcasting Trust, is a trustee of the Disaster Emergency Committee and has previously been on the board of BOND, her local school and various other charities.  Rose is committed to change the current workings of the global aid system and has joined with other INGO leaders to develop the Pledge for Change initiative.  Rose is based in London with her partner and three children.  

Called to The Bar in 2005, Charlotte spent 2 years working as a Legal Advisor for HMCTS in London.  She was the Hate Crime and Domestic Violence Lead and worked with the Mayor of London to implement his cross agency protocol for domestic violence cases, including the provision of specialist domestic violence courts.   

In 2007 Charlotte completed her pupillage, and then developed her criminal practice in the magistrates’ and crown court.  She was also a legal advisor to the BBC for programmes such as EastEnders and Law and Order.   

In 2009 Charlotte joined the CPS and her first role was in the Special Casework Unit, London, and then the Homicide Unit.  Notable cases included R v Braithwaite, Kika and Alleyne (the murder of Ben Kinsella) and the private prosecution of BT in relation to the implementation of ‘cookies’ software.   

In 2022 Charlotte became the Head of RASSO for the CPS and now manages all rape and serious sexual offences for the East Midlands.  Charlotte has represented the CPS in the national media, including Channel 4 news and BBC’s flagship programme, Panorama. She has also been part of the CPS/Police national working group, responsible for implementing the Joint National Action Plan on rape and recently, the National Operating Model for rape and sexual offence cases.   

Her greatest claim to fame is that as a child, she appeared on the TV shows Blockbusters, Timmy Mallet’s ‘Wacaday’ and Challenge Anneka!  

Rita Jacinto is a Programme Manager at the Division for Pedestrian Accessibility, Lisbon City Council, Portugal. Working for the City since 2016, Rita has collaborated with local government leaders to influence and provide decision support on urban planning and policy with a focus on mobility, gender mainstreaming, public transportation accessibility and collaborative governance. Rita manages a pilot-project developing innovative work to improve the safety of women in public spaces and access to public transport.  While collaborating on national and international projects, such as FLOW, VoxPop and TRIPS, Rita is passionate about developing strategic ways to improve the accessibility and mobility opportunities of the most excluded groups in urban areas.

Kathryn Timmins is Design Lead in the Design Unit at the Greater London Authority at City Hall working on built environment design research, strategic regeneration agendas and design advocacy. She also teaches on the MSci Architecture course at the Bartlett school of Architecture teaching professional practice. Kathryn is a qualified architect with previous experience at We Made That and Tate+Co and is co-founder of architecture and art collective Studio Tej. Kathryn was part of the Mayor of London’s Our Time cohort which supports female future leaders and mentored with Women in Planning.

Betty is a Senior Design Officer in the Greater London Authority’s Design Unit, working to promote quality and inclusion in the built environment through design review, research, and quality management. She was previously an architectural designer at Be First London, facilitating the development of responsive urban and architectural strategies to deliver social housing in Barking & Dagenham. Betty is also a founding member of PATCH, a multidisciplinary collective that transforms writing into spatial interventions and ephemeral events. She is a RIBA Journal Rising Star for 2022 and chair of the New London Architecture NextGen Panel.

Marina Milosev is the co-founder and director of Beyond the Red Line, a research and design studio focused on creating  gender-equitable public spaces. As a landscape architect and urban planner, she brings over 10 years of experience in urban design and research and public engagement, with a strong focus on gender equality. Marina’s extensive experience includes several years with the LLDC, where she led an award-winning research focused on generating evidence and developing guidance for built environment professionals to design cities that are more inclusive, safer, and equitable for women and girls. She led and co-authored the handbook Creating Places That Work for Women and Girls, the first of its kind, offering practical guidance to mainstream gender-sensitive processes in urban design for local authorities, developers, and designers. This work has gained significant recognition, leading to Marina’s nomination as a ‘Woman of Influence 2024’ by the RTPI. 

Dr. Julia Girardi-Hoog hold a PhD in Sociology of Architecture and has been working for the City of Vienna since 2013. She is responsible for Gender Planning at the Chief Executive Office of Vienna and is also teaching at the University of Vienna. Julia has managed the EU H2020 funded project „Smarter Together“ for Vienna, where smart city approaches were implemented in urban renewal processes and has won several awards for mobility solutions but also for integrating people into co-design processes.  

Tanya is Head of Insight and Innovation at Women in Sport, a UK charity with a 40-year record of success in securing change, based on its deep understanding of the needs and aspirations of women and girls and breaking down stubborn gender inequalities within the sports sector and beyond. Tanya leads the charity’s body of influential research to understand the impact of significant life-stages on women and girls’ sport and exercise journey, including the impact of early years stereotyping and tackling teenage disengagement. She passionately believes in the power of sport to transform lives and that women and girls should not be denied the joy and freedom sport and exercise offers. Prior to her role at Women in Sport, Tanya worked in higher education as a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology and is currently an Associate Lecturer at The Open University.

Helen is an architect with a career spanning the public, private and third sectors, and is currently the urban design lead at West Yorkshire Combined Authority. She has expertise in the impacts of housing development on health and physical activity, particularly in children and older people. Her research for Playing Out CIC explored the link between residential layouts and children’s freedom to play and roam safely. At the Combined Authority, Helen has collaborated with the University of Leeds to research women and girls’ perceptions and experience of safety in parks, and published Safer Parks: Improving Access for Women and Girls with the Safer Parks Consortium (Keep Britain Tidy, Make Space for Girls, University of Leeds and West Yorkshire Combined Authority) in 2023. 

With over 10 years experience at Transport for London, Nicola is a Senior Manager responsible for policy, data and analysis of the biggest issues impacting staff and customers on TfL networks regarding non compliance issues. The team produces relevant analysis to inform deployment of enforcement activity and to support development of policy approach and evaluation.

I have 25 years’ experience of policing in both Uniform and Detective roles, in London and beyond. I currently lead our response to Violence and Intimidation Against Women and Girls (VIAWG), working within our Public Protection and Vulnerability Department. I also have national responsibility for ViSOR (offender management) and the newly established Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime team.

I am passionate about ensuring that BTP is an inclusive and supportive place to work and am a peer supporter and Inclusion and Diversity Champion, acting as a mentor to colleagues to help them become the best possible version of themselves.

Lara Snowdon is Violence Prevention Programme Lead at Public Health Wales. In this role, she leads the public health activity of the Wales Violence Prevention Unit including managing a multi-disciplinary team whose role is to promote a public health approach to violence prevention for Wales. Lara is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Health with a focus on the primary prevention of violence. Before her current role, Lara has worked for Public Health England, in local authority public health, and in the humanitarian sector. In 2019 she completed a mentorship in Violence Prevention with the World Health Organization. She has two Masters degrees, in Public Health, and in Gender and International Relations.

Bryony Parry is the Communications and Engagement Lead for the Wales Violence Prevention Unit, with a responsibility for all communications, engagement and coproduction activity within the team. Bryony has a particular interest in ensuring professionals working in all areas of violence prevention understand the role of primary prevention and early intervention. She is passionate about involving people who are impacted by violence in decision-making for violence prevention, and supporting them to have their say safely on matters that are important to them.

Jain Lemom is Head of Tackling Violence Against Women & Girls at the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), leading this work on behalf of the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Jain has extensive experience in working with victims and survivors, partner agencies and community groups to develop groundbreaking policies and interventions to transform the lives of women and girls across the capital. Since 2016, she has overseen the delivery of more than £117m in Mayoral investment in preventing VAWG, supporting victims and tackling perpetrators – services that reach tens of thousands of Londoners each year. Jain and her team have also provided expert advice for the Mayor’s #Haveaword campaign, which has reached an audience of millions worldwide. Jain is internationally recognised for her innovative work to keep women and girls safe. She chairs a number of London-wide forums bringing partners from a diverse range of sectors to drive strategies on prevention, ensure support to victims and initiatives to tackle perpetrators of VAWG. Jain has spoken about her work with several forums, notably at the United Nations. Jain had an extensive career in public service prior to joining MOPAC, working for the Greater London Authority, London Councils and the Association of London Government. She has also worked in the banking industry and in the voluntary and community sector.

Sarah Walker has over 22 years’ experience of the Evening and Night Time Economy (ENTE) from her previous roles at the BII (British Institute of Innkeeping), Best Bar None National Co-ordinator and Purple Flag Programme Manager.

Sarah is passionate about the ENTE and place management and believes that effective partnership working is key to making a real difference to the regeneration, revitalisation, diversification, safety and perception of our towns and cities both nationally and internationally.

Sarah has worked with many towns and cities across the UK and Ireland and internationally in Sweden and Auckland, New Zealand.

Sarah’s most current work has been with Safer Business Network for the GLA and MOPAC on the Women’s Night Safety Charter in London.

Paul served for Northamptonshire Police for over 18 years before, mainly as a Crime Prevention Officer before heading up the Crime Prevention Team. In 2019 Paul moved to Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioners Office to take up a more strategic role. His policing experience and knowledge in situational crime reduction techniques has contributed to a series of successful Safer Streets bids for the County, as the Office approaches nearly £5m funding since the scheme began in 2020. Paul has been instrumental tackling both the creation of the bids and the implementation of the projects, designed to tackle VAWG, Neighbourhood crime and ASB. Paul regularly uploads his ideas onto the College of Policing Practice Bank, cascading and sharing his knowledge & learning with other parts of the Country. 

Paul joined the office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner in late 2016, after a successful policing career of 32 years.

Paul’s previous policing career saw him involved in a broad range of policing responsibilities. He served in uniform and investigative roles in every rank up to and including Chief Superintendent. These embraced Neighbourhood Policing, CID, Major Crime, Intelligence, Specialist Operations and Project Delivery functions.

Paul was a qualified Senior Investigating Officer, Firearms Commander and a nationally accredited hostage and crisis negotiator.

His current role sees him leading a wide portfolio of responsibilities in the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner’s Office, which includes Governance, ownership of the assurance processes for holding to account the Chief Constable and Chief Fire Officer in Northamptonshire, management of the complaints processes for police and fire, and delivery of a range of community and personal safety projects and interventions.

He works with a wide range of partners both at a strategic and operational level, including both statutory and voluntary organisations. He sits on both Community Safety Partnerships in the County and is the SRO for the Serious Violence Duty in Northamptonshire. . Paul remains passionate about community safety in the County and remains fully committed to pursuing activities that enhance the quality of life of those e that live or work in Northamptonshire.

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. 

After supporting Licensed Premises as Covid Officer I became a Licensing Officer in 2022 with responsibility for the Night-time Economy of Eastbourne in particular. It was evident that after the Pandemic the NTE needed support to encourage it’s customer base to get back out and enjoy themselves.

I became aware that some premises had better reputations than others so wanted to get a scheme going that would encourage good communication and working practices between licensed establishments.

I introduced Best Bar None to Eastbourne in 2023 and immediately started to encourage schemes such as Ask for Angela into the town. I became aware of Stamp Out Spiking UK whilst searching for products to distribute to premises coming on board with Best Bar None and with help from the police secured the funding to be able to invite Dawn down to provide two training sessions. These were well attended by over 80 members of staff from the licensing and hospitality sector as well as SIA door staff. The immediate feedback on the training was absolutely incredible and still continues to this day with requests for further training. The aims for 2025/26 are to increase engagement with Best Bar None and continue with Spiking awareness and VAWG training. I would also like to secure funding to introduce The ‘Walk Safe App’ to Eastbourne.

Rose Caldwell is CEO of Plan International UK, an international NGO that strives for children’s rights and equality for girls.  With over 20 years of senior leadership in NGOs, Rose is driven by her desire to help create a better and more equal world, where every child and young person can reach their full potential and has the opportunity to raise their voice to help shape the world around them.  A chartered accountant by background, Rose spent 10 years in the private sector, before working with an INGO in Burundi, Rwanda and Zimbabwe.  Rose currently chairs the International Broadcasting Trust, is a trustee of the Disaster Emergency Committee and has previously been on the board of BOND, her local school and various other charities.  Rose is committed to change the current workings of the global aid system and has joined with other INGO leaders to develop the Pledge for Change initiative.  Rose is based in London with her partner and three children.