PresidentChildrens Radio Foundation
The Rev’d Charlotte Bannister-Parker is the President of The Children's Radio Foundation & Chair of it’s International Executive Committee. She is also the Catetchist (Associate Chaplain) of Exeter College, Oxford and Associate Priest at The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. Charlotte is also a trustee of The Oxford Foundation, a Governor of Queen’s College School, London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Patron of the British Film Institute. She is a Fellow of the RGS and a former Trustee of the International Interfaith Centre.
She was also The Bishop of Oxford's Advisor for Overseas Projects 2008-2013. In 2008, Charlotte, lived in Kimberley, South Africa where she helped develop, with the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman, HIV/Aids and educational projects. She remains a regular visitor to SA and the CRF projects sights, monitoring and supporting some of the programmes in the region. Charlotte also co-founded in 1994 the charity Learning for Life which funds schools and education projects in India, Nepal and Pakistan specialising in girl-child education. She also founded the annual inter-faith "Friendship Walk" in Oxford (2004) and the annual seminar "One Earth, Many Faiths" (2005).
Her academic qualifications include a BA in Politics, Anthropology & Russian Studies from Durham University (1984), an MA in Development Communications for the Centre for Overseas Research and Development, Durham University including field research in Nepal (1992) and another BA Hons in Contextual Theology, North Thames Ministerial Training, London (2004).