About Us
Two Ridings CF team comprises our President, the Board of Trustees, our office based staff and a team of volunteers from across the region.
Board of Trustees
James Naylor
Chair of Trustees
James is an experienced CEO of Leisure & Restaurant businesses, Non-Executive Director & was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 2011-12.
Read moreAlison Pearson
Vice Chair of Trustees, Chair of Grants Committee
Committees: Grants Committee
Alison is an experienced Operations Director and Non-Exec Director.
Read moreAndrew Wilson
Chair of Finance and Investment Committees
Committees: Finance & General Purposes Committee and Investment Committee
Andrew is an experienced manager in the Investment world, and Executive Director at Quilter Cheviot Ltd.
Read moreHannah Harris
Chair of Governance Committee
Committees: Governance Committee
Hannah is an experienced Company Secretary.
Read morePaul Downey
Trustee
Committees: Finance & GP Committee
Paul is former Chief Executive DEFLOG VQ Trust, based in Beverley.
Read moreJohn Furness
Trustee
Committees: Finance & GP Committee
John is a former High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, farmer, sportsman and racing enthusiast.
Read moreVenetia Wrigley DL
Trustee
Venetia runs the Ganton Estate and volunteers for the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners’ Trust, Opera North, Elizabeth Finn Care, St Nicholas’s Church, Ganton and the Middleton Hunt.
Read moreTwo Ridings Community Foundation Staff Team
Two Ridings CF has a team of dedicated and talented staff who all share the same vision and values of supporting grassroots charities in North & East Yorkshire. They work well together and have forged a number of great partnerships with other charities and public sector organisations.
Jan Garrill
Chief Executive
Jan has been Chief Executive of Two Ridings Community Foundation since September 2014.
Read moreStephanie Dunnill
Finance Manager
Committees: Finance & GP Committee
Stephanie is a very experienced finance manager and qualified accountant (CIMA).
Read moreJackie McCafferty
Grants Programme Manager
Committees: Grants Committee
Jackie is a highly proficient grants manager with 12+ years’ experience at Two Ridings CF of managing programmes, working with donors and all aspects of the grant making process.
Read moreRoxanne Wood
Grants Programme Officer
Committees: Grants Committee
Roxanne joined Two Ridings CF in September 2016 from The Rank Foundation in Hull. She manages a number of grants programmes as well as leading on Open Data & 360Giving
Read moreFrances Bryan
Finance & Operations Officer
Fran joined Two Ridings CF in February 2017 and looks after day to day financial and governance matters as well as our newsletter.
Read moreStephanie Sumner
Development Officer
Committees: Donor Development Committee
Stephanie came from Denver Community Foundation and started volunteering with us in January 2017 when she worked closely with the team on compiling all the evidence for our QA submission. She is now our Development officer.
Read moreTRCF associates – these are experts in particular areas of Two Ridings CF work who provide pro-bono support
Sara Haddon
Associate
Sara was a Managing Director in HSBC Private Bank where she advised a number of executives on their overall finances and was instrumental in the decisions they made about their philanthropic giving.
Read moreChris Leech MBE
Associate
Chris is a Senior Manager at the Rail Safety & Standards Board, London. Chris created the Rail Industry’s first community engagement programme post privatisation. Since then he has gone on to create a portfolio of global award -winning CSR strategies
Read moreTwo Ridings CF Volunteer Assessors
Our project assessors are highly skilled and valuable volunteers, each of whom have unique experience in the charity sector as well as knowing the needs in our region. Each application we receive is assessed by one of our assessors to ensure that every group we fund understands and meets local need. Without the efforts of our project assessors, we wouldn’t be able to fund over 300 projects a year with full confidence that each project is not only effective and sustainable, but also making a real difference to people’s lives.
Grant making Panels
The Trustees’ aim is for the Foundation’s grant making processes to be transparent and to address the interests of applicants and the wishes of donors and funding partners. All eligible external grant applications go through a process of allocation to fund, assessment, review by a panel, ratification and monitoring.
The responsibility for approving a grant rests ultimately with the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. However, they delegate authority to one or more grants panels which may be its own Grants Committee or an external panel of local representatives as agreed with a funder.
The following are some examples of our grant making panels and the type of people who are members.
Two Ridings CF Grants Committee
This committee meets quarterly and reviews applications from a variety of funds, including from our grassroots endowment, A Life Less Lonely and #iwill. The Grants Committee also has delegated authority to review our grant making policy and practice. It oversaw a full review of our grants policy in 2017.
Members:
Ali Pearson – Chair and trustee of Two Ridings CF
Oliver Quarmby – trustee of Two Ridings CF
Hannah Harris – trustee of Two Ridings CF
Christine Bainton – lay member. Christine has considerable experience of the Voluntary and Community Sector in York and North Yorkshire. She has been a member of the Standards Committee of City of York Council for over 10 years and was a former trustee of Two Ridings and a grants assessor. She also chairs our Hungate Panel.
THE LOCAL FUND for the Harrogate District
This fund was established in 2018 largely due to the transfer of a charitable trust to Two Ridings CF and the support of Harrogate Borough Council. It meets once per annum and distributes in the order of £40,000 pa.
Members:
Former trustee of the Harry Bolland Trust
Businesspeople in the Harrogate District
Friends of THE LOCAL FUND.
Councillors with Harrogate Borough Council
Hungate Community Fund
The Hungate Community Fund was set up by Two Ridings CF in partnership with Lend Lease in 2016. Lend Lease established the fund in association with their Hungate residential development in central York to give something back to the city will be a very rewarding experience. The Fund distributes up to £25,000 per annum and is directed at small to medium sized charities and community groups in York who need it most. The panel meets twice per annum.
Members:
Member of our grants committee
Lend Lease Community Liaison Manager
York residents who are active volunteers and trustees.
Allerton Park Landscape and Cultural Heritage Fund
The Allerton Park Landscape and Cultural Heritage Fund was set up by Two Ridings CF in 2016 and is designed to assist with projects which enhance the landscape, cultural heritage and biodiversity of the designated area of benefit around the Allerton Waste Recovery Park and also projects which mitigate the visual effects of the site within that same area. The fund is a five year fund and is funded by North Yorkshire County Council as part of the Section 106 contributions associated with the Allerton Waste Recovery Park.
The Allerton panel meets twice per annum to consider applications to the large grants scheme (for awards between £10,000 and £50,000). The membership comprises two representatives from North Yorkshire County Council, one from Harrogate Borough Council, three community members with strong local knowledge, involvement in the local community and an interest in the natural environment and/ or local cultural heritage and three technical experts.
Members:
Community members – local residents, some of whom are also parish councillors in the area
Technical representatives – for example from Natural England
District and County councillors
If you are interested in joining one of our panels please contact Jackie McCafferty.
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