Our Trustees

Oliver Gravell

Coming soon…

Katherine Ahluwalia

Katherine has worked in the domestic abuse sector for over 10 years and is a professionally qualified and highly experienced Domestic Abuse Professional. She has worked as a frontline practitioner in domestic abuse risk assessment, crisis intervention and psycho-educational programmes and has seen how interventions can help survivors recover from the trauma caused by this insidious type of abuse.

Katherine has worked in various management roles within the sector including heading up training services and consultancy services. Her scope of experience and knowledge of delivering training and raising awareness is extensive. She has delivered training to frontline practitioners in the Police, Health, Social Care, Education and the Voluntary Sector in the subjects of Domestic Abuse, Trauma Informed Practice, Vicarious Trauma, Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment and Well-being.

Katherine also chaired the Ipswich Domestic Abuse Forum for three years and has been an expert member on Domestic Homicide Panels and Police Domestic Abuse Scrutiny Panels across Suffolk.

As well as raising awareness of domestic abuse and the impacts on survivors, Katherine is committed to having the voices of the experts by lived experience at the centre of all our services. She is also passionate about embedding domestic abuse services in all our local communities to make them more accessible to everyone who is experiencing domestic abuse.

Katherine has seen the impacts, firsthand, of utilizing education and training to break the cycle of abuse and informing services and professionals, as well as sharing her knowledge, experience and skills. via training, consultancy, advocacy and public speaking services on behalf of Restore Women’s Aid.

Emma Clifton

Emma is a director in the Business Advisory Department at Scrutton Bland LLP. She has been at Scrutton Bland LLP for over 19 years, starting as a trainee is 2002 and being promoted to director in November 2019. She qualified as a certified accountant in 2007 and since then has worked with a portfolio of clients across East Anglia ranging from small sole trader businesses to limited companies with £10m turnover.

She predominantly works with owner-managed businesses to support them through their journey with annual compliance work as well as providing strategic advice to grow and maintain their businesses. She is also part of the cloud accounting team, working with clients to use online accounting software to run their bookkeeping functions.

Outside of work, she is a governor for a local primary school.

Jo Debenham

Jo holds an BA Hons Degree in Graphic Design and a master’s degree in strategic marketing. She is the Head of Marketing at Attwell’s Solicitors, where she also serves as a board member.

As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Jo brings invaluable lived experience and insight to her work with Brave Futures. She is passionate about using her journey to support children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse, helping to ensure they receive the specialist care, understanding, and resources they need to heal.

Through her professional expertise in marketing and strategic communications, Jo plays a key role in raising awareness of Brave Futures’ mission, advocating for the importance of early intervention and therapeutic support. Her unique perspective, both as a professional and as someone with lived experience, enables her to contribute meaningfully to the charity’s outreach and development, ensuring that the voices of survivors are heard and supported

Evril Silver

Evril received her M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Psychiatry in London and her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of East Anglia. She has worked as a Clinical Psychologist with children and adults in hospitals in London, Bristol, and Basildon.

She was the Lead Psychologist for children in Suffolk, working for 28 years at Ipswich CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. In this role, she undertook assessment and therapy for young people with a range of mental health problems, including children who had been sexually abused. She also ran groups for parents and offered clinical supervision for staff. She is qualified in Family Therapy and trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Trudi Rose-Porter

Trudi has a BA (Hons) in Business Management and a PGCE. Having previously taught Business Studies, she is now the Director of Transition, Foundation and Inclusive Learning at Suffolk new College, running a Directorate of 720 learners and 50 members of staff.  Her remit includes inclusion across college, and her Directorate encompasses provision for the most vulnerable learners, from unaccompanied asylum seeker children to those with learning difficulties and disabilities and Educational Health and Care Plans.

Trudi is in her second year of a Masters in Inclusion, and part way through the NPQ in SEND Leadership qualification. As well as being on the Board for Brave Futures, she is a Trustee at the Raedwald Trust, which is an alternative provision for those unable to attend mainstream school.

Gemma Cuckow

Coming soon…

Jessica Bettis

Jessica is a dedicated trustee with a passion for supporting organisations in creating inclusive, effective, and people-focused workplaces. As the co-owner and Director of a successful search agency based in Norwich, Jessica brings extensive expertise in people management, employment policy, and staff retention strategies. With a deep understanding of recruitment and workplace culture, Jessica provides valuable direction and insights to Brave Futures, ensuring strong governance and sustainable people management practices. Her consultancy experience spans strategic HR planning, leadership development, and fostering positive workplace environments that attract and retain skilled teams.

Committed to making a meaningful impact, Jessica applies her skills to help the charity build a motivated, engaged team while aligning with best practices in employment and governance. Jessica’s strategic input helps shape policies that support both the charity’s workforce and its long-term mission.

Keri Symonds

Keri has over 20 years of experience working in Suffolk and Essex with children, young people and their families. Starting off as a youth worker, to qualifying as a social worker and this year will complete her training at the Tavistock to become a systemic family psychotherapist.

Keri has experience in working with sexually abused children and providing therapeutic work to them and their families. She has previously worked in the in statutory child protection, 3rd sector charities including national NSPCC and more local charities including The Rochford Foundation and Seckford Trust. She has experience of working in the private sector as the Responsible Individual for therapeutic children’s homes and more recently has been working in the NHS in children’s mental health.

Vaibhav Negi

Coming soon…

Lynne Mortimer

Coming soon…