Diagrama Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Trustees, whose extensive professional experience will further strengthen the organisation’s Board and support its ongoing aim to improve the lives of vulnerable adults and children.
Richard Dunn brings over 40 years of experience in Human Resources management at all levels, including strategic leadership and senior operational roles across a range of organisations. His career spans the rail industry, G4S, and small and medium-sized enterprises, with a strong focus on the development and training of individuals. Richard joined Diagrama in 2013 as Head of HR, where he played a key role in establishing and developing policies and procedures to support the organisation’s growth. In 2024, he stepped back from his executive role and has now taken up this new position as Trustee.
Helen Dean joins the Board with 30 years of experience as a management consultant, project manager, and commissioning manager, primarily within the criminal justice sector. She spent 17 years with the Metropolitan Police Service, working on a wide range of initiatives from policy development to implementing major IT systems. She later joined the Youth Justice Board, where she led governance and strategy development and oversaw commissioning services for young people in custody. Helen joined Diagrama in 2017, contributing to business development and professional standards, and worked on a variety of projects to develop new services and innovative ways of working before retiring in 2023.
Commenting on her appointment, Helen Dean said: “I’m very excited to rejoin Diagrama, as a trustee. When working here I was able to see, every day, the dedication and innovation the staff and management team brought to championing the children and adults they support. To be able to contribute to Diagrama’s ongoing development of services to support vulnerable people to achieve their full potential is a real privilege.”
David McGuire, CEO of Diagrama Foundation, said: “We are delighted to welcome Richard and Helen to the Board of Trustees. Their combined experience, insight, and long-standing connection with Diagrama will add real strength to our governance. Both bring a deep understanding of our values and the sectors in which we operate, and I am confident they will play an important role in guiding the organisation as we continue to grow and develop our services.”
These appointments reflect Diagrama Foundation’s commitment to strong governance to support vulnerable adults and children.
About Diagrama Foundation
Diagrama Foundation is a Kent based charity that supports vulnerable children, young people and adults to live their best life.
Diagrama has a Supported Living Service across Bromley and Mid Sussex, three homes for adults with learning disabilities in Orpington, an eight-bed care home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex with a Community Services Programme a fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs in Essex, and a fostering and adoption service in the southeast.
- The Supported Living Service, cares for 33 adults with learning disabilities, in seven schemes across Bromley and one scheme in Mid Sussex, helping them to develop skills and confidence to live in their own house either on their own or with others.
- At Cabrini House in Orpington the charity promotes the development of core skills for 23 adults with learning disabilities so that they can lead independent lives integrated within their community.
- Diagrama Care Home at Duckyls Farm, is a residential care home in West Sussex on a 100-acre farm for residents with learning disabilities, which allows the charity to explore the physical, mental and social skills and benefits that working with animals and in nature can offer to people with a learning disability.
- Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm is a day care provision for people with a learning disability, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury and/or autism.
- The team at their nursing and dementia care home, Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea, support vulnerable residents to live life to the full.
- Diagrama’s voluntary adoption agency and not-for-profit fostering service cares for children who wait the longest for homes in London, Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
Many vulnerable children and adults don’t get the support they need to develop their true potential, but the Diagrama team know that when someone has time and belief invested in them, they come alive, because that investment has made them feel valued and worthy.
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