OUR TRUSTEES
MIRIAM BENNETT
As a trained teacher Miriam has worked in many schools in the South West of England, and is currently working with small groups of less confident children, in school settings, using puppetry as a tool to boost their self-esteem. She has had a lifelong passion and interest in developing children’s creativity, understanding how creativity can have such a positive impact on their lives. Miriam comes from a large active Subud family and has been actively involved in Subud for 45 years. She lives by the sea with her husband and has two sons and one granddaughter. She is also a professional singer in a jazz band.
ELLIOT HARDING-COX
Elliot has worked in the events industry for over 25 years as a project manager and consultant, leading high-profile international events, corporate experiences and brand activations. He is also a property professional with a passion for creating high-end homes and communities. Elliot has been involved in Subud since he was a child, and Susila Dharma has always interested him, leading him to become a trustee in 2022. Elliot loves sports and has a passion for travel and languages. He lives with his wife in Lewes.
VINCENT MOUNT
Vincent has been a practising landscape architect since 1996, with experience working on many community and public realm improvement projects in Britain. His work focuses on connecting people and their natural environment. He’s travelled widely and is happily married with four children. He started working for Susila Dharma Britain in 2014, and was Chair for 5 years. In 2019 he joined the Susila Dharma International Board, working to create a stronger network around the world. He is keen to encourage people in their courageous efforts in the humanitarian field to make a difference in their communities.
SARAH PENFOLD
Sarah is a retired Chartered Secretary. She worked for thirty years as a committee secretary and company secretary most latterly providing company secretarial services to a number of Venture Capital Trusts. She also has experience of charities and a variety of other organisations and companies in the charitable and private sectors. Sarah was attracted to Susila Dharma by the range of projects that the charity helps finance to support people living in extremely deprived circumstances providing them with opportunities that they wouldn’t otherwise have had in life.
She now lives in Seaford, Sussex where she is training to be a Feldenkrais teacher and is a keen amateur artist.
TEGUH SANTOSA
Teguh Santosa has been a Subud member for over 30 years. He has always been eager to help others in need. Currently, he is a volunteer mentor for people with severe diabetes in an online support group. He has worked in education, charity, and commercial organisations, gaining skills in management, leadership, and personal development. Teguh feels that working for Susila Dharma Britain aligns with his inner guidance to help others. He is married, lives in West Yorkshire, and has two wonderful sons. In his spare time, he enjoys playing guitar, writing songs, and singing.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS
Christopher is an architect, and works with families to design houses and school buildings using green oak structures made by fellow Subud member Andrew Holloway. He has been a Subud member for a long time, and remembers his dad Jim being very active within Susila Dharma, so when the opportunity to become involved came up it suddenly felt very appealing. In the last ten years his life has been very family-focused with his wife and young son, in Lewes, but he now looks forward to seeing the bigger picture and discovering how he might help with some of the inspiring projects that are taking place around the world.
FELICIA McGARRY
Felicia has been a Subud member for over 50 years. She presently belongs to the Lewes group but before that was active in the Weybridge, Liverpool, Tunbridge Wells and Norwich groups.
She qualified as a primary school teacher and taught in both state and private schools including 3 Subud schools... as Head of The Green Tree Nursery School in Tunbridge Wells, Head of St Christopher's School in Norwich and the first head teacher of the Lewes New School.
She then gained a Masters in Art Psychotherapy and worked for 9 years for a charity in Lewes giving therapeutic support to children and their families.
Now retired she is keen to support a range of charities and enterprises working on a human level in both the UK and internationally and feels that becoming a trustee of Susila Dharma Britain could be an effective and worthy way of achieving this.
ROBIN JONES
Robin spent his career in marketing research and business consultancy, including extended periods working in the Far East and Middle East and seven years as a UK Government Chief Information Officer. Before and since retirement he has been involved in a wide range of community and charitable work, including mental‑health, infant‑disability and learning‑disability organisations, in roles spanning trustee support, administration and mentoring.
An active Subud member since 1963 student days and a long‑standing supporter of Susila Dharma Britain, Robin became a trustee in early 2026. “I’ve always appreciated the focus on projects that are locally rooted and genuinely sustainable and it’s been a delight to join such a harmonious, compassionate and professional team — no egos or politics, just striving to make the world a better place.”