Our Patrons

Richard has sixty years of experience in the financial services industries, mainly in London but also in Australia and South Africa. The first half of his career was in stockbroking where he finished as a partner with Hoare Govett before moving to fund management. After twelve years with Amvescap, he set up New City Fund Management, which at the time of its sale to CQS was managing five successful investment trusts involved in the natural resources sectors. The latter part of his life has been in philanthropy through the Lockwood Family Foundation, which he set up after the sale of his business.

Tim has enjoyed a successful career in food service management including several acquisitions and mergers and latterly the sale of Lexington Catering where he was joint owner.

Subsequently, he decided it was time to have a gap year – now extended – enjoying his garden in Kent, walking his dog around the orchards and hop fields, and visiting his grandson in Tuscany.

Tim offers his continued support to TLP and our goals and is keen to provide long-term support in fundraising.

Sandhini Poddar is an Adjunct Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, working on special projects in New York and Abu Dhabi. She has been affiliated with the Guggenheim for the past ten years in various capacities and has curated numerous international exhibitions. Poddar writes on contemporary art, philosophy, and politics for international magazines and academic publications.

Sir William Sargent is a Business Studies graduate from Trinity College Dublin. He co-founded FrameStore in 1986. He has been part of FrameStore’s successful rise from an award-winning commercials house to a world-renowned film VFX and animation company based in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Montreal. William also served as Permanent Secretary Regulatory Reform Cabinet Office, and Board Director of HM Treasury; received a CBE in 2004 and was knighted by the Queen in 2008.

Michael Mansfield QC was called to the Bar in 1967, he established Tooks Chambers, in 1984 and became Queen’s Counsel in 1989. Michael has represented defendants in criminal trials, appeals, and inquiries in some of the most controversial legal cases the country has seen, particularly where issues of Civil Liberty have arisen.

Following the suicide of his daughter Anna, on 1 May 2015, Michael and his partner Yvette Greenway founded SOS Silence of Suicide, a networking initiative that encourages open and honest discourse at free, public meetings, amongst anyone affected by suicide or those with an interest in mental wellbeing.