Our Board
The BAFTS’ Board is made up of both shop and supplier members who, together, offer a diverse range of experience, skills and backgrounds. Board members are voted onto the BAFTS’ Board by our network at annual conferences. Our meetings are animated and often challenging as we grapple with the issues facing our movement both internally and externally.
We welcome enquiries from BAFTS members who are interested in joining the Board to continue our growth and development as a national membership organisation. The roles are largely voluntary.
Lucy Morley (Chair)
Director of non-profit business, Good Taste – The Sheffield Fair Trade Shop, Brownie Guider, Mum to three children and Co-Ordinator at Hope English School, Lucy is passionate about empowering people to change their own circumstances. It is this thread that runs through all her work, whether through education, business or building confidence to enable people to speak out for themselves.
At Good Taste, she helps to manage the vision of the shop and is responsible for social media, marketing and website management. Hope English School is a charity working to remove barriers for asylum seekers and refugees in Sheffield through quality ESOL and Digital Skills classes. A firm believer that education is the key to change and that everyone should be entitled to receive the education they need in order to access services and become part of their community, Lucy is the Funding, Communications and Volunteers Co-Ordinator at this School.
Lucy joined the BAFTS board in 2024 and was honoured to become Chair a year later in 2025.
Arshad Khalid (Treasurer)
Arshad is a social entrepreneur and a fair trade proponent passionate about sustainable development. He grew up in India in the old city of Delhi. In his early teens, he learnt how the
co-operative movement had helped the farmers of India. He also witnessed the decline of small artisans and their handicrafts. Natural materials were making way for cheap plastics and so Arshad thought about setting up a platform for artisans. However, as he grew up, he entered the field of IT for over 21 years before going back to his childhood dream in 2017. That’s when he launched Ethiqana – a social enterprise focused on preserving earth friendly, nearly extinct crafts through sustainable livelihoods. Arshad also works as mentor for refugee entrepreneurs, helping them set up their businesses in the UK. Arshad was featured in the Social Entrepreneur Index 2022, joined the BAFTS board in May 2023 and represented the UK at the Commonwealth Study Conference in Canada in June 2023.
Lenshina Hines
Lenshina grew up with a strong sense of social justice inherited from her father, who helped to introduce the Jamaican National Minimum Wage. She initially studied and worked in engineering but needed a
change after becoming a parent. So Fair and Fabulous was born. As well as being a vibrant BAFTS shop, Fair and Fabulous is the heart of Fair Trade in the local area, driving Newcastle Emlyn to become a Fair Trade Town in 2014. Lenshina is very proud of Wales’ status as the world’s first Fair Trade Nation! Lenshina joined the BAFTS board in 2021 as the first ever Black board member and was incredibly honoured to become Chair a year later. Lenshina passed the torch to Lucy in 2025. She is passionate about helping BAFTS become a more diverse and inclusive organisation, working in true solidarity with artisan makers in the Majority World. She also wants to make the BAFTS name much more widely recognised as a major voice for trade justice.
Sarah Shepherd
Sarah is founder and managing director of Just in Leicester. Sarah first heard about fair trade as a teenager at Greenbelt festival in the early 80s. This led her to buy Traidcraft products for herself and friends, with fair trade teabags becoming known as ‘Sarah’s save the world teabags’ by her nurse colleagues at Leicester Royal Infirmary! Sarah worked in Tanzania in a small rural mission hospital in with her husband. Upon her return in 1996, together with a group of friends, she ran a fair trade Christmas pop up shop in Leicester. After a few years of successful pop ups, in 2000 Sarah set up more permanent premises as Just Fair Trade Ltd; a workers’ co-op social enterprise. Just is now the largest fair trade shop in Leicestershire, selling all things fair trade, ethical and sustainable. Sarah was on the Fairtrade group when Leicester became a Fairtrade City in 2002 and was a founder member of the Fairtrade Foundation’s National Campaigner Committee.
Lydia Tresize
Lydia, having studied jewellery at university and motivated by a desire to support others, volunteered at Neema Crafts Center in Tanzania with Susie Hart. Alongside her husband Mark, Lydia played a pivotal role in establishing Artizan International’s base in Ecuador, where she trained people with disabilities in paper-making and other crafts. Upon returning to the UK, Lydia continued her commitment to social impact as Volunteer Coordinator and Shop Supervisor at Artizan International in Harrogate. Now, as a Stories Researcher at Christians Against Poverty in Bradford, Lydia works to amplify the voices of those affected by debt and poverty in the
UK. Lydia remains deeply engaged in Fair Trade through her involvement with the board of BAFTS, having joined in May 2023 as well as her small business, Lydia Miriam. She imports vibrant Tagua beads from Ecuador and crafts them into bold necklaces, showcasing her ongoing dedication to ethical commerce and artisanal craftsmanship.
Karena Jarvie
Karena has been a True Origin director since 2020.
Karena is a long-term fair trader and has a strong understanding of the mission and beliefs of the grassroots support for True Origin. She sells True Origin goods on her fair trade stall at Kinross Parish Church and has encouraged local churches and schools to undertake the 90kg Rice Challenge. She is Chairperson of the Perth and Kinross Fair Trade Zone Group and a member of Kinross Fair Trade Group as well as a Trustee of the Scottish Fair Trade Forum and a member of the National Campaigner Committee of the Fairtrade Foundation.
Board Member
Could you be our newest board member?
To register your interest in joining the BAFTS board, please email admin@bafts.org.uk for more information.
Our Staff
BAFTS could not do all that it does without our hard-working and committed staff. More than just employees, they are themselves passionate ambassadors of the fair trade movement and all that BAFTS stands for.
Ellie Halland
MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR
Ellie joined the team in July, 2025, as the Membership Coordinator. She brings a wealth of experience to the role, having run her own fair trade business, Karma Gear, for over a decade. Values driven and passionate about ethical retail and community empowerment, she also has a strong background in environmental law. As a long-standing member of BAFTS, Ellie has a thorough understanding of the Ten Principles of Fair Trade and their practical application. Ellie thrives in mission-led environments that put people and planet first, so is a great fit for the BAFTS team.
Bernadette Coote
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
Bernadette is the most recent addition to the BAFTS team, starting in September, 2025. Over the past decade, she has worked across three continents, bringing communities together to tackle complex challenges, from expanding cultural access in London to developing impact initiatives with peripheral communities in Medellin.
Fluent in English and Spanish, Bernadette thrives in settings of cross-cultural collaboration and progressive team thinking.
Beyond her dedication to social justice and community development, she’s a certified yoga teacher, developing bird nerd, salsa dancer and life-long traveller.
Julia Crellin
ADMINISTRATOR
Julia joined the BAFTS admin team on a temporary basis in 2019 and is still here! She works closely with Joanna on memberships renewals, coordinates the monthly newsletter and helps to organise the annual conferences. Having set up and run a fair trade jewellery business in Peru many years ago, she loves working with people who care about the same things she does.
She also works for Just Trade two days a week and teaches GCSE Spanish in the evenings. Mum to Charis and married to Andi, who roasts his own coffee, they never have a bad (fairtrade) coffee day.
They don’t have a dog of their own, but volunteer for the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, so they often have a trainee pup in tow. As well as regular walkie-talkies with friends and dogs, Julia enjoys reading good books, making her own cosmetics and using her sewing machine.