Dame Sandra Burslem has been a trustee of the Rhodes Foundation since 2007. She graduated as a mature student from Manchester University, taking a first in Politics and Modern History.  Her career was almost entirely in what was Manchester Polytechnic and then became Manchester Metropolitan University. Starting as a Lecturer in British Politics, she held a number of senior academic positions culminating in becoming the University's Vice-Chancellor from 1997 - 2005. Sandra was a Magistrate on the Manchester Bench from 1971 until her retirement, serving on the Adult, Youth and Family Courts. From 2005 – 2011 she was appointed a Civil Service Commissioner, where her lead responsibilities were with the Ministry of Justice and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Departments. She was appointed the Chair of the Education Honours Committee In 2005 and was therefore a member of the Main Honours Committee until 2011. She continues to serve on a number of public sector bodies.

Steve Collett has been a Trustee since 2014 and is currently the Chair.  He worked for three North West probation areas over four decades, retiring from Cheshire Probation in December 2010 after  ten years as its chief officer. He holds honorary positions at Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores and Manchester Universities and is a member of the Probation Journal Editorial Board.
John Eckersley is a graduate of Accounting and Finance and a former director of investment house Henry Cooke Group plc and of merchant and private bank, Brown Shipley & Co Ltd. He has nearly 30 years’ investment experience. In 2002 he founded Castlefield Investment Partners LLP with close colleagues with the aim of continuing to specialise in investment for charities. Today Castlefield is a champion of all employee share ownership and manages money for all types of investors who often wish to express socially responsible or ethical principles in the way their money is managed. In his spare time, he is a trustee of The Charity Service Limited and of The Palmiro Foundation.
Cedric Fullwood became a probation officer in Manchester in 1963. After five years working in the Scottish Office he returned to Greater Manchester in 1982 as Chief Probation Officer. It was during this latter period that, in 1989, he established the Rhodes Foundation Trust. He was a founding Member of the Criminal Justice Consultative Council and the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and was also Chair of the Cheshire Probation Board.

Roz Hamilton is a Deputy Director of the National Probation Service with responsibility for court services and the North West division. She has had a long career in Probation with over 30 years experience including working with young offenders, high risk offenders and in community engagement. Her vocation and commitment to improving community safety remains as strong as the day she was appointed.
Mary Mallick is a retired magistrate and teacher of English, senior teacher and Deputy Head.  She currently chairs the Board of Home-Start Manchester South, an independent charity who recruit and train volunteers to support families where and when needed. Mary also chairs the Greater Manchester Committee of the Art Fund and is a Member and ex President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Hilary Tucker joined the Board in 2015 following her retirement from her non-executive role within Cheshire and Greater Manchester Probation. She has been involved in a non-executive capacity with probation in these geographical areas for over 15 years, eight of which were spent as chair of the Board of Greater Manchester. In recognition of her services to public protection and reducing reoffending, Hilary was awarded the OBE in 2014. Her last executive position was as Principal and Chief Executive of Warrington Collegiate Institute.
Patrick Williams joined the Board in 2015. He is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, based within the department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University.  Prior to this, Patrick worked as a Research and Evaluation officer for the Greater Manchester Probation Trust for ten years.  He specialises in the processes of criminalisation; race and racialisation; What Works? and the ongoing tensions between Social and Criminal Justice.  Patrick has extensive experience of managing and delivering applied research and evaluation projects within the context of criminal justice and criminology.  In addition, he works and supports a number of national and local community and voluntary organisations and activists.  
Linda Dransfield is the Honorary Secretary of the Trust and provides support both to the Trust Board and to  potential scholars.  She is a highly experienced probation manager who worked for Greater Manchester Probation Service for 25 years before becoming Senior Probation Officer for the North West Approved Premises within the National Probation Service in 2014.