Our Trustees

Mrs Mary Stredwick

Mrs Mary Stredwick (CEO)

As a firm believer in the difference we can make when we work together, I have spent many years working internationally to support and empower marginalised communities.

I feel privileged to bring that experience to the Folkestone Rainbow Centre, using those same skills to support individuals facing hardship in our local community. With the dedication of our staff, trustees, volunteers, and supporters, we stand beside our clients—walking with them as they rebuild independence, restore stability, and rediscover hope.

With the dedication of our staff, trustees, volunteers, and supporters, we stand beside our clients—walking with them as they rebuild

Dr Peter Le Feuvre

Dr Peter Le Feuvre (Chair)

Peter has been a local GP since 1986, and has worked with asylum seekers, prisoners and other people whose lives are on the margins.

In medical work abroad, he helps to run teaching courses on primary health care in low and middle-income countries. Peter lives in Postling, where, as church warden, he is actively involved in the village church, and he is a Governor at Lyminge Primary School.

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Mr Andrew Ferguson

Mr Andrew Ferguson (Vice Chair)

After training as an accountant & Governance Professional within the medical and toy industry. Andrew spent 20 years as a Finance Director, Company Secretary and Managing Director in the corporate image sector, managing large scale worldwide signage programs for major corporate companies.

Having spent eighteen years as a Governor of two local schools, in 2007 he became a Finance and Operations Director of what has now become one of the major UK Education Academy Trusts. In addition to his main duties Andrew acted as the client project lead for the building of several large secondary schools across south London.

Currently Andrew is the Chief Finance Offer of a Church of England Academy Trust with schools across south London and East Sussex. Andrew lives in Postling and is an active member of the local church.

Mr Nick Buckley

Nick spent 34 years in the RAF during which he flew single seat fighters, primarily the Lightning, and then leading into Air Battle Management; in his later years, he held various management and lecturing roles and he commanded an RAF base during the First Gulf War.

After leaving the RAF Nick spent 10 years as Head of The Poppy Appeal, working for the Royal British Legion. Despite the main collecting period being in November it is extremely active throughout the year and collects in over 120 different countries worldwide. In addition to his staff of around 50 he had direct links to approximately 4,500 key volunteers who he individually appointed and, where appropriate, retired. He is an elected Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

Miss Dorothy Douse

Dorothy has been a Trustee since around 2008. She was taught many years earlier, at Dover Girls Grammar School, by Gloria Guest (one of the original Trustees) who always referred to her as her first A level R.E. student! Dorothy learnt much from those original Trustees about Rainbow Centre’s early work as the Folkestone Family Care Centre. The emphasis was very much on the family and hence her interest, having spent a lifetime in primary school education. Dorothy is the Trustee with oversight for our Family Contact Centre.

Her other interests include the WI, having been a Trustee, Chairman and Treasurer of the East Kent Federation, belonging to several choirs and enjoying the many musical and other advantages of continuing to live in this part of Kent.

Mrs Ada Foreman

Ada is a retired accountant after working in the NHS for 33 years. The final five years were spent supporting the delivery of major transformation projects in Kent and Medway. She has been a Governor for a local primary school for over 10 years including being their Chair of Governors.

Ada has been a volunteer for the Rainbow Centre since 2019 and joined the trustee board in 2025. She is an active member of the Union of Catholic Mothers at both a Parish and Diocesan level and is a sponsor and volunteer for a community charity in Zambia, which has a focus on primary education for all and secondary education for girls.

Mrs Elizabeth Pettersen

Liz has been a trustee of the Folkestone Rainbow Centre since 2017. She retired from her role of Executive Headteacher of a federation of two outstanding church schools in 2017. Liz has been a SIAMS (Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools) inspector since 2007 and retaining a passion for excellence in church schools. She is currently an advisor for the Canterbury diocese academy, Aquila.

Liz is passionate about supporting the vulnerable in her community and beyond. Apart from being a volunteer and a trustee of the Rainbow Centre, she is also a trustee of a charity in India, supporting in particular those with leprosy and HIV.