Who we are


Katie Waldegrave and William Fiennes

Staff

  • Executive Director: Katie Waldegrave
  • Founding Director: William Fiennes
  • National Director: Mónica Parle
  • Fundraising Officer: Kirstie Miller
  • Programme Administrator: Nikki Rossner
  • Office Administrator: Katie Lee
  • Fundraising Intern: Georgie Stogdon

Trustees

  • Beth Colocci (Curator)
  • William Fiennes (Writer)
  • Charlotte Hogg (Managing Director, Experian UK and Ireland)
  • Rob Ind (Head of English, Cranford Community College)
  • Andrea Minton Beddoes (Consultant)
  • John Rendel (CEO, Promoting Equality in African Schools)
  • Alastair Ruxton (Senior Lawyer, London 2012)
  • David Stephens (Group CFO, Sheffield Haworth)
  • Anna Trichkine (First Story student representative)
  • James Wood (CEO, Data Transparency)

Advisory Board

  • Lord Adonis – Director of the Institute for Government
  • Julian Barnes – Writer
  • Jamie Byng – Publisher, Canongate
  • Alex Clark – Former Editor, Granta
  • Julia Cleverdon – CEO, Business in the Community
  • Andrew Cowan – Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, UEA
  • Jonathan Dimbleby – Writer and Broadcaster
  • Mark Haddon – Writer
  • Simon Jenkins – Writer
  • Andrew Kidd – Literary Agent, Aitken Alexander Associates
  • Rona Kiley – CEO Academy Sponsors Trust
  • Chris Patten – Chancellor, The University of Oxford
  • Kevin Prunty – Headteacher
  • Deborah Rogers – Literary Agent
  • Zadie Smith – Writer
  • Alicia Stubbersfield – Writer and Teacher
  • William Waldegrave – Chairman, Science Museum
  • Brett Wigdortz – CEO, Teach First

Fundraising and Events Committee

  • Beth Colocci
  • Jules Flory
  • Susannah Herbert
  • Nicole Lanitis
  • Helen Polito
  • Laurel Rafter
  • Alison Seaton
  • Constance Slaughter
  • Caroline Waldegrave

Friends of First Story

Indrojit Banerji, Della and Sumit Banerji, Tim Bevan and Amy Gadney, Lord and Lady Bland, Bloomberg, Sandra Boss, The Bulldog Trust, Josie Cameron-Ashcroft, Cameron House School, J. Cesar, Anthony Clake, Peter and Geneviève Davies, Lord and Lady Douro, Paula Dowdy, The Ernest Cook Trust, The Girdlers’ Company, James Gotto, John Lyon’s Charity, The Green Brais Family Fund, Granta, Victoria Gray, The Lennox and Wyfold Foundation, The Martin Smith Foundation, The Mercers’ Company, Old Possum’s Practical Trust, Per Pro Paragon Trust, Philip Pullman, Richard Reed and Melinda Page, The Robinson Charitable Trust, The Rothschild Foundation, Lord and Lady Saye and Sele, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, The Siobhan Dowd Trust, The Staples Trust, Betsy Tobin, Bob Trevelyan, Trusthouse Charity Foundation, Unltd*, Jamie Waldegrave, Sonali Wijeyaratne and David Fitzherbert.