Our Management Team

Rena Sodhi – Chief Executive

Rena took up the role of Safer London’s CEO in March 2011. She has worked closely with the Board of Trustees, staff, Met police and other key stakeholders to review the charity’s work, impact and priorities.

Rena’s previous work has been in roles that primarily focussed on supporting and empowering young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to have access to opportunities. She was the London Director for the Prince’s Trust, the Director of Policy & Projects for v and delivered grant programmes to the value of over £1.2bn for the Big Lottery Fund, Millennium Commission and South East Arts.

She started her working life as a journalist and then moved to running educational youth projects in housing estates for All Change, Artswork and Red Ladder Theatre Co.

Claire Hubberstey – Director Projects & Partnerships

A former secondary school teacher, Claire spent seven years at The Children’s Society in a range of roles including direct project delivery and management, policy and campaigns and latterly heading up the organisation’s national Training & Consultancy Unit. Here she led a team to provide agencies with strategic and operational policy and practice development support.

Claire was seconded into the Department for Children, Schools and Families as a specialist policy advisor to work on the delivery of the Young Runaways Action Plan and has spoken at national and international conferences on Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, including a recent trip to Jamaica as a consultant to the British High Commission and Jamaican Police. Claire sits on a number of government boards and advisory groups and is a school governor in London.