Laura Barbour

Laura recently joined the Chimo Trust, a grant giving charity focused on supporting young people’s mental health through social prescription, where she is supporting portfolio development. Prior to this, Laura worked at the Sutton Trust, a charitable trust focused on addressing social disadvantage, establishing the Trust alongside founder and chairman Sir Peter Lampl in 1997.

Laura held a variety of roles, notably developing and executing the Trust’s Early Years strategy with a focus on fair access to quality early education, supporting parental engagement and the home learning environment and holistic community-based family support.