Anne Fox is CEO of Clinks - the national infrastructure charity supporting the voluntary sector working in criminal justice in England and Wales. Anne has been at Clinks since 2015 and is leaving the organisation at the end of March 2026. She is originally from Dublin, Republic of Ireland and has worked in the voluntary sector there and in the UK since 1999.

Anne worked mainly in campaigning and policy roles on a range of issues before focussing on charity sector collective campaigns and coalitions. She is passionate about the power and potential of the voluntary sector and enabling it to be an effective source of essential support for people who deserve the chance of a bright future.

Dr. Ruth Armstrong is a lawyer and criminologist with over 20 years of experience in working with higher education, criminal and social justice organisations in the UK and internationally. Ruth is passionate about co-producing solutions to intractable social and organisational challenges and thrives on bringing people together, listening, understanding, and generating and sharing evidence. 

Alongside her work as a consultant with government departments, NGO’s and third sector organisations, Ruth is an academic researcher in the department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool, where she teaches Participatory Action Research methods and is currently co-leading a UKRI funded policy focussed grant, ‘Making Space for Radical Imagination’ working to shape research, practice and policy agendas with people who have lived experience of criminal harm, criminal sanction and working on the front lines of the criminal legal system.

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