Petra Ingram

“MY role right now is crisis management,” says Petra Ingram, as we speak remotely at the start of the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown, but in the time she has worked at Brooke – 11 years this month – the organisation has been transformed, and in the process has prevented several crises.

“Brooke has changed from a charity doing good work to one making a lasting difference to the animals and people who depend on them,” Petra explains. “When I joined, we were about hospitals and direct care. But over a decade we’ve developed into a charity that has a more lasting approach.”

Brooke’s work now focuses on building the capacity of local vets and health workers in the countries in which they offer support, so that they can provide training to people in the communities they help. The charity employs 150 vets worldwide whose role is to train more than 4,000 further local animal health workers and vets, increasing its impact.

“The people we