Juliet has been Chief Executive of the Stroke Association since June 2016 and Chair of The Richmond Group since January 2022. The Stroke Association is the UK’s leading stroke charity promoting life after stroke. With a turnover of £35m per year and a staff team of 800, the organisation’s activities extend from funding stroke research, to providing services to stroke survivors and their families, influencing and campaigning for change, and educating and working to prevent strokes. There are 1.2 million stroke survivors in the UK, yet stroke still remains the fourth single largest cause of death in the UK and second in the world.

Juliet co-chairs the Stroke Delivery Programme Board with NHS England and is a member of the NHS Assembly. She is a World Stroke Organisation Board member and Fellow. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire Medal (OBE) in the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours list.

Prior to joining the Stroke Association, Juliet was at Macmillan Cancer Support for 16 years in a range of roles covering strategy, policy, research and HR. From 2011-2015 she was Executive Director of Services and Influencing with a staff team of 800 and a budget of £150m. She oversaw a programme of award-winning innovations and service design across the UK, and secured important government commitments to improve patient experience and post-treatment support through the 2015 Cancer Strategy for England.

Prior to Macmillan, Juliet worked at the British Red Cross in strategy and service evaluation, the Community Development Foundation in fundraising, and a political consultancy. She was a trustee of the Long-Term Conditions Alliance and chaired the Cancer Patient Experience Board for University College London Hospital (UCLH) from 2011-2014.

Juliet has a degree in Modern Languages in Oxford and a postgraduate diploma in management. She ran the London Marathon for the Stroke Association in April 2019.

Catherine has been leading Royal Voluntary service as Chief Executive since August 2017. Starting her career as a trained nurse in the NHS , she has extensive experience across all sectors building innovative and sustainable services and inspiring and enabling voluntary action. Her key passions are frontline service delivery and enabling the gift of voluntary service which recently saw her leading the development of a number of large-scale initiatives to support the NHS and our communities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Before joining Royal Voluntary Service, Catherine was Chief Executive of Samaritans, which provides confidential support to anyone experiencing a tough time in their life. Whilst at the helm for almost 7 years, Catherine was responsible for developing a long-term strategy that saw the organisation become the thought leader of suicide prevention and innovator of postvention services in the UK.  This resulted in her being awarded a CBE in 2016 for services to suicide prevention. Catherine was fortunate enough to also spend some time working in the Asylum and Refugee support sector which in her own words was exceptionally humbling and tough.

In her career Catherine is also well known for her leadership roles across the world of volunteer infrastructure having held CEO roles in CVS/Volunteer Bureau and Community Action organisations.  As Chair of Directory of Social Change for many years she understands the key role that small charities make to their local communities.  With a keen appetite for collaboration, Catherine has recently led the development of Shaping the Future With Volunteering coalition that she now Co Chairs with Matt Hyde. She was recently appointed as  Vice Chair of the Richmond Group.

Her time as CEO of NDPB national funding agency, Capacitybuilders placed her at the heart of government and VCS funding decisions.  The breadth of experience that Catherine has been able to secure also included a period of time working in the Asylum and Refugee support sector. Catherine is particularly proud of her five children and five grandchildren who keep her grounded and eternally entertained and busy.

Duleep is the Richmond Group’s chief executive and is responsible for ensuring that the coalition is a strong and influential collective voice in the health policy landscape, advocating and driving change in the  health and care system for people with long-term health conditions.

Duleep began his career as a welfare rights adviser before moving into policy development and influencing. He has worked in policy and campaigning roles, mainly in the voluntary sector, for 25 years. Prior to joining the Richmond Group, he was Assistant Director of Policy and Campaigns at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), where he led the development of Fit for the Future, the College’s vision for the future of general practice. Duleep’s previous roles include Head of Insight and Public Affairs at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) and Head of Policy at Macmillan Cancer Support. At Macmillan, he helped secure key commitments on post-treatment support for cancer patients in successive NHS cancer plans and strategies, as well as significant policy wins on hospital car parking, prescription charges and welfare reform. He led a workstream of the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI), which developed tools and learning resources, and ran vocational rehabilitation pilots, to help patients return to work after cancer treatment.

In his spare time, Duleep enjoys cinema, cooking and football – both playing and watching. Duleep grew up in South London, where he still lives, and is a long-suffering fan of Crystal Palace FC.

Charlotte leads on our national influencing and political engagement, focussing on improving care for people living with multiple health conditions. She’s also developing our ICS engagement.

Charlotte started her career in the charity sector at Macmillan Cancer Support, gaining experience in User Involvement and Health Inequalities, Evidence and Public Affairs. She joined the Richmond Group from the Stroke Association, where she worked for nearly 6 years, first in Public Affairs and then leading the wider Policy & Influencing team. Her experience includes influencing for policy and system change in stroke care, working closely with NHS England to shape and deliver its National Stroke Programme, supporting colleagues to influence at ICS and locality level, and managing a UK-wide influencing team. She’s motivated by the opportunity to improve access to and quality of healthcare and interested in how the system needs to adapt to better serve an ageing population.

Charlotte lives in Hove. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family down in Devon, travel, cinema, dance and (fair-weather!) dips in the sea.

After completing a Combined Arts degree from the University of Leicester Michelle began working on community physical activity projects via a stint in local government. She then joined the national Walking for Health team under its stewardship of the Ramblers and Macmillan Cancer Support. Following this Michelle moved into the private sector, working for Intelligent Health and managing their innovative physical activity programme, Beat the Street. Michelle joined the Richmond Group in June 2017.

Emma joined The Richmond Group in June 2022. Previously she spent two years at Art Fund, the national charity for art, where she was the policy manager advocating to government and the public for museums and galleries. Prior to that, she spent four years in various policy and external affairs roles at the Association of Charitable Foundations, working to influence the operating environment for grant-makers and philanthropists. She also has experience in fundraising and project development for an international peace building charity.

Emma completed a masters degree in International Relations, specialising in gender, and an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Spanish. In a voluntary capacity, Emma is vice chair of her local council for voluntary services and has also volunteered with older people, asylum seekers and sports clubs.

Beth joined the Richmond Group in 2024 from member charity Versus Arthritis, where she led on policy areas including health inequalities, physical activity, and social care. She was also a member of the Care and Support Alliance coalition’s management group.

Prior to that, she worked on health and care policy at the Royal British Legion, on issues such as better support for unpaid carers in the Armed Forces community and hearing loss among veterans. Beth began her career in local government, working across areas including local democratic services and adult social care.

Beth enjoys history, cinema, and is in a choir.

Emily joined the Richmond Group in early 2024. Her career started as a documentary researcher in New Zealand, providing a platform for people with disabilities and long-term health conditions to have their voices heard. Continuing to work in areas amplifying voices, she has previously worked in communications for a social enterprise circus in Cambodia, transforming lives through performance art, and managed a one-to-one friendship matching programme in Southwark, bringing older and younger people together to increase connections and reduce loneliness.

Currently studying towards a Master of Science (Health Psychology) she is particularly motivated by ensuring lived experience voices influence systems change. Emily supports the Movement for All team with the programme and policy work in action, reducing inactivity in people with multiple long-term health conditions and removing barriers preventing them from being physically active.

Emily has lived in South London since she moved to the UK 9 years ago, enjoying the opportunities for travel, theatre, and other forms of community-building live performance. She enjoys going for hikes in nature, wild swimming, and having a boogie.