Supporting positive social solutions through research, advocacy and communications
Action Learning Set, Restorative Justice and Leadership facilitation

Lucy
About Lucy
Policy and Research
Lucy Jaffé is an independent researcher and consultant. She has experience of writing policy and running advocacy campaigns in the UK and Europe and brings her knowledge and creativity to support the issue at hand.
Lucy’s is experienced at working with different stakeholder groups in particular, people with direct experience of the issue, to lobby Parliament and institutions for system change.
Leadership experience and training
Lucy’s experience has been built through leadership positions in the non-profit, statutory and corporate sectors. She is good at supporting Chief Executives and Boards through times of change.
Highly practical, she is known for her ability to get to the root of the problem and work with those most involved to come up with a solution.
Facilitation and groupwork
Lucy has in-depth knowledge and expertise in Restorative Justice and its application to individual situations, institutions and also to systemic structures.
She is a trained Action Learning Set facilitator working across corporate, voluntary and statutory sectors.
Work with direct experience
Working alongside people with lived experience is a hallmark of her successful campaigns and advocacy career. She brings well-developed sensitivity to complex situations involving staff, volunteers and beneficiaries.
She has enabling skills which support people to speak out and which minimise the dangers of extraction when working with vulnerable groups.
Fundraising
Lucy has raised revenue and capital for voluntary and corporate sectors. She is an expert trusts fundraiser with strong networks and knowledge of philanthropic sector.
Her fundraising at Forest School Camps raised £1m towards a new building. She has raised £ms for Why me? the restorative justice charity she runs.
Marketing and communications
Lucy has experience of strategic marketing and communications across digital, f2f and paper. She is highly experienced at developing messaging and consistency to achieve corporate and organisational goals.
Lucy has provided the strategy for Why me? to become a highly effective national and international brand leading communications on Restorative Justice.
Achievements
Career highlights and qualifications
- Director of Why me? Transforming Lives through Restorative Justice.
- HR and Marketing Director at Whitespace Software Limited, supplier of insurance software to Lloyds’ of London agents
- Founder and Director of Reunite: International Child Abduction Centre.
- Board member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice
- Working group co-chair for Hate Crime, Polarisation and Violent Extremism
- RJ Advisory Board for the Victims Commissioner
- Advisory Board member to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on RJ
- Advisory Board of the Criminal Justice Alliance
- Selection panellist for the Stronger Voices Media Trust programme
- Leadership trainer and group facilitator for the Rank Foundation
- Trained Restorative Justice and Action Learning Set Facilitator
- Mother tongue English, fluent french and passable German
- Leader of children’s camps in the wilderness

Recording Restorative Talks podcasts with Janika Cartwright


Chris Donovan Trust Award for services to Restorative Justice

At the Rank Foundation Conference with intern Lucy Harris

Board and Secretariat of the European Forum for Restorative Justice
Published works
- An economic evaluation of restorative justice post sentence in England and Wales (Frontiers Magazine, 2023)
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Restorative Justice Lucy was leading member of the Advisory Board, contributor to the Summer Inquiry 2021 and to the Criminal Justice Briefing paper (2022). She chaired the External Policy Engagement Working Group.
- Restorative Talks Podcast with Janika Cartwright (2023)
- Podcast with Transform Justice: What do victims of crime want? (2022)
Chris Donovan Award winner (2023)
For services to Restorative Justice